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Re: [FlyRotary] New rotors, New
housings
I would look into getting 85-85 GSELE rotors with the 3 mm
seals, you would also need the weights to match them, then machine out
your rotors for a spare engine, you may need one to bale you out in
the future, if you keep this up you may knock me off the seat as
president of the dead stick club.
I am now running rotors machined out to 3 mm seals and at
about 400 hrs on them I can tell by checking through the exhaust port
that the seal grooves are getting V'ed out and getting sloppy so I am
now putting another engine together, on this one the rotors are in
prime shape so I think I will run Tracy's 2mm seals.
Also I think that the groves may be hardened and by
machining the groves out makes them softer as they shouldn't have worn
out in only 400 hrs.
Ken
Well, the
decision has been made. Thanks in part to the wife's continued
interest in my warm body on cold winter nights, the decision has
been made to purchase new rotors and rotor housings. $$ but
apparently I am worth it {:>)
I looked
into milling out the slots to 3mm and that would have been the cheaper
approach - but cheap approach is probably partly responsible for me
being in this situation - so going to try a different approach this
time. Besides leery of using a rotor which clearly has been
subjected to sufficient loads to scrape metal off its surface and peen
over apex slot.
In the
process of getting quotes.
Ed
Ed
Anderson
Rv-6A N494BW Rotary Powered
Matthews, NC
eanderson@carolina.rr.com
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