Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #3370
From: Ed Anderson <eanderson@carolina.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: aluminum intake tubing?
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 23:21:57 -0400
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
 
 No, Mark, I don't
 
    Never thought to take one as my "manufacturing facility" just my table top in the work shop.  I build the molds out of foam board because it is cheap and easy to shape.  Then I mix the kickapoo juice in a Folgers Coffe Can (after carefully and exactingly measuring each component of course), then I pour it into the mold.  I have only done this a few times - this is time No.3.  No time to take photos once the juice is mixed  - as the resin will set in less than 8 minutes and will become impossible to pour before then. 
 
   I do this in my wonderful 40x30 ft workshop that out behind the house with two garage doors one with a loading dock.  Only 50 ft back to house and meals, etc.  Could possible ask for a better set up.  But, then I deserve it - as I build the old damn airplane in my basement back in Virginia before I retired to North Carolina.  That included running up my rotor engine on a test stand on the driveway in a subdivision - with two mufflers I might add - to keep from being lynched by the neighbors.

 
Ed,

Do you have a web site with pictures of your intake manifold manufacturing facility?   Or, will that be part of your EDDIE slide show?

Mark S.

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 I am currently making the mold for another plastic intake part.  This time it will be for the lower part of the intake, so I can use inexpensive straight tubing with the bend in the plastic casting rather than keep paying for expensive pre-bent tubing.
 
Good Luck
 
Ed Anderon
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