Return-Path: <13brv3@bellsouth.net> Received: from imf18aec.mail.bellsouth.net ([205.152.59.66] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c2) with ESMTP id 770869 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 18:46:31 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=205.152.59.66; envelope-from=13brv3@bellsouth.net Received: from rd ([65.6.194.9]) by imf18aec.mail.bellsouth.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.11 201-253-122-130-111-20040605) with ESMTP id <20050304234547.LHLX2073.imf18aec.mail.bellsouth.net@rd> for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 18:45:47 -0500 From: "Russell Duffy" <13brv3@bellsouth.net> To: "'Rotary motors in aircraft'" Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re: hand router milling Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 17:46:46 -0600 Message-ID: <001201c52114$6d62c820$6101a8c0@rd> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0013_01C520E2.22C85820" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0013_01C520E2.22C85820 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From Tracy's unit? Little to nothing. Maybe you could take some sandpaper and round some corner's or something.=20 Tracy's has hacked his adapter plate up quite a bit from what he told = me. I think he said he took a few pounds off by doing that. He was estimating that you could get it under 40 lbs without sacrificing the design = strength if you were willing to work at it. This will be a worthwhile exercise = on the single rotor, but not worth the trouble for the RV-3. =20 =20 Cheers, Rusty (nope, still nothing) =20 ------=_NextPart_000_0013_01C520E2.22C85820 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message

 From Tracy's unit?  Little to = nothing.  Maybe=20 you could take some
sandpaper and round some corner's or=20 something. 

Tracy's = has hacked his=20 adapter plate up quite a bit from what he told me.  I think he said = he took=20 a few pounds off by doing that.  He was estimating that you could = get it=20 under 40 lbs without sacrificing the design strength if you were willing = to work=20 at it.  This will be a worthwhile exercise on the single rotor, but = not=20 worth the trouble for the RV-3. 
 
Cheers,
Rusty = (nope, still=20 nothing)
 



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