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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 19:10:24 -0400
To: lml@lancaironline.net
From: N295VV@aol.com (by way of marv@lancaironline.net)
Subject: Re: Peel Ply etc
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Regarding the builder who had not removed the Peel Ply--It happened before 
1996, the year when I got my plane passed by the factory inspector.  I know 
who inspected it.  It was not Charley.  Those details are not important.

The important thing was that the peel ply was, in some cases, very 
difficult to see.  It was very easy to miss it's presence sometimes.  But, 
in the case of the chain-sawed plane (as told to me by the inspector), the 
builder must have been completely devoid of knowledge of it's presence, 
because he apparently did not peel any of it.  Perhaps he had trouble 
reading the English manual.

At that time, the parts were being made in the Phillipines, and I suggested 
to the management that they pay a couple extra dollars a day to the 
Phillipino employees to peel the parts before they were shipped--we, as 
builders, would gladly pay the extra charge, and from a liability aspect, 
the factory would be protected from Widow's lawyers.

For whatever reason, the factory, chose to ignore this plea, and for years 
after, the parts still were shipped with peel ply on them.

As a post-scipt, I was the person who instigated this thread...

Now I will start a new thread:

Complaints about Turbos stopping during climb, and over-heating cylinder 
temps....

Perhaps you have fiberglass dust in your tanks, lines, and filters and 
injectors!

Did you WASH OUT your wings before closing?  I do mean wash out!  We blew 
and vacuumed hell out of our wings before closing.  Thought they were very 
clean.  Then we decided to wash them with a water hose...an incredible 
amount of white fiber glass  dust appeared on the blacktop below the 
wing.  All of this dust would have eventually plugged filters and injectors.

We let the washed wings stand in the sun for a week before close out, to 
make sure the water was evaporated, then, after close out, we cycled 10 
gallons of gas into the wings and drained them as well to remove residual 
water.

If you only vacuumed your wings before closeout, you need to clean your 
filters and injectors every few hours for a length of time to make sure 
glass dust is not accumulating.

There have been several instances of glass plugging injectors and leaning 
the engines, possibly to the damage point,  that I have heard of.

Of course the most usual reason for high cylinder temps is poor baffle 
jobs.  Your baffle must be absolutely tight against the cowling.

Have fun, David Jones