X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:58:06 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.200.83] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1c.3) with ESMTP id 1332162 for lml@lancaironline.net; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 05:59:36 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=204.127.200.83; envelope-from=mjrav@comcast.net Received: from mark1 (c-65-96-139-16.hsd1.ma.comcast.net[65.96.139.16]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with SMTP id <2006081509584501300nob43e>; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:58:45 +0000 X-Original-Message-ID: <002701c6c052$c78ff730$108b6041@mark1> From: "Mark Ravinski" X-Original-To: "Lancair Mailing List" Subject: Re: Spinner cracks X-Original-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 06:08:39 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0024_01C6C031.40552450" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1807 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0024_01C6C031.40552450 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable My spinner has an aluminum sheet forward bulkhead formed to meet the = cone with a flange about 1/2" wide. After about 600 hours, this spinner started to show some wear / erosion = from contact with the flange. I made a small trowel out of thin fiberglass with a triangular file and = applied some RTV on the flange. The effect is "V" ridges like you get from a floor cement trowel. Cure = the RTV before reassembly. It's up to 1387 hours now with no other problems. No wobble of the = spinner is evident at idle. Mark Ravinski N360KB ------=_NextPart_000_0024_01C6C031.40552450 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
My spinner has an aluminum sheet = forward bulkhead=20 formed to meet the cone with a flange about 1/2" wide.
After about 600 hours, this spinner = started to show=20 some wear / erosion from contact with the flange.
I made a small trowel out of thin = fiberglass with a=20 triangular file and applied some RTV on the flange.
The effect is "V" ridges like you get = from a floor=20 cement trowel.  Cure the RTV before reassembly.
It's up to 1387 hours now with no other = problems.  No wobble of the spinner is evident at = idle.
 
Mark Ravinski
N360KB
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