Return-Path: Received: from misav05.sasknet.sk.ca ([142.165.20.166] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP id 2980752 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sat, 07 Feb 2004 11:27:13 -0500 Received: from thyme.sasktel.net ([142.165.20.198]) by misav05 with InterScan Messaging Security Suite; Sat, 07 Feb 2004 10:27:12 -0600 Received: from sasktel.net (hssxrg69-11-16-227.sasknet.sk.ca [69.11.16.227]) by thyme.sasktel.net (SaskTel eMessaging Service) with ESMTPSA id <0HSQ003M631BLH@thyme.sasktel.net> for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sat, 07 Feb 2004 10:27:12 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 10:25:49 -0600 From: Perry Casson Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: A good day flight testing In-reply-to: To: Rotary motors in aircraft Message-id: <4025118D.6090108@sasktel.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 References: Tommy James wrote: >Hi Perry, It sounds really good to hear that Nanook flies! >Can you tell your prop description? >FWIW, I used 1" vinyl tape from a boat supply store to seal the wing >root/wing gap. It matches the gel coat color..:-) >Regard, >Tommy (Hoping to be bacn in P'cola next weekend for more flying myself.) > > My prop is a wood 71" dia with 65" pitch made by a local prop builder. We've tried a couple different tapes including New Glasair's gap seal tape on my buddy's glastar and they all seem to crack in the cold air, I was told check with the glider club to see what they use. Perry