X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from [206.46.252.44] (HELO vms044pub.verizon.net) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.4) with ESMTP id 1005001 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:13:05 -0400 Received: from verizon.net ([71.99.149.159]) by vms044.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 HotFix 0.04 (built Dec 24 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0II800B6LCPM7M55@vms044.mailsrvcs.net> for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:12:59 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:12:58 -0400 From: Finn Lassen Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Ed Update.. In-reply-to: To: Rotary motors in aircraft Message-id: <42B2CC5A.90607@verizon.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax; PROMO) David Staten wrote: > So my question: > How common is aluminum tubing in brake lines from a "per plans" > standpoint. Does anyone else agree or disagree with the notion that > this may be asking for trouble? Ed has said that he has replaced the > offending part with braided hoses, so the problem should not recur at > the same location. According to Tracy, he had failed to tie the line to the gear leg. There is a loop at the end of the line which is only supposed to handle the slight caliper movement - nothing else. It's not supposed to handle movement of the whole length of the line unsupported along the gear leg. > Also, i never realized that brake fluid was flammable.. I did not ask > Ed what flavor he used.. but what are the specs with regards to > flammability on the different types of fluid? Yes, the MIL-H-5606G "aviation" brake fluid is fammable. However, it's apparently not corrosive. A good thing for an alu airplane! Finn