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Yeah! the "hollow ring of aluminum" is a heart rending
sound. I drop an aileron on one corner and it almost made me cry
{:>).
Well, get caught up and flying again.
Ed
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 3:40
AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Favored Method
9/11 - Fuel Pump Shut off was [FlyRotary] Re: Method of killing power??
Hi Ed;
Yea, I'm still here only half way
to the pole and yes weather has been nice but as always time is short. I still
at least skim over all the list emails every night but usually resist the urge
to get involved in threads as I type too slow, No time for that ;-) . So I'm guess I'm reduced to
mere lurking status :-(
.
I thought when I moved my plane home,
I'd find myself obsessed with working on it as I was for 3 years of building,
but I just don't want to get into it until I have time to commit fully. At
least it's protected in my shop and at home, not costing me anything and the
time will come when I can fly it again. I just hope it's before I retire in 25
years. :-P
I was doing some concrete work in the
shop recently using my skidsteer, when I accidentally bumped into the wings in
their cradle. No damage whatsoever, but the hollow aluminum sound reverberated
right through me and left me feeling rather hollow myself as I expected that
I'd just taken a huge step backwards from flying again soon. Extreme relief
when I found only a barely visible paint scuff.
Back to
lurking mode now.
Todd (maybe
Tracy will have the datalogger ready before I'm ready again)
Ed Anderson wrote:
Hi Todd,
You've gotta stop working so hard and play a bit - get
back to flying, no snow, freezing rain, wind-chill, etc, so now's the time
to do it{:>).
OK, always got to be one or two in the group. So
basically, you turn off everything with the key, fuel pump, EC2 and
injectors - well, that should do it OK.
Good to hear from you, was beginning to wonder if you
had headed up to North Country - I mean way up North.
Ed
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Original Message -----
Sent:
Monday, June 25, 2007 3:09 AM
Subject:
[FlyRotary] Re: Favored Method 9/11 - Fuel Pump Shut off was [FlyRotary]
Re: Method of killing power??
Hi Ed;
Ok, I just gotta be different.
I just use the key switch to shut down. This removes power from the bus
that feeds the injectors, ignition, EC2 & fuel pumps immediately.
Engine shuts down instantly just like an auto, never had a problem using
this method. In case anyone would point out the single mode failure, etc
of this, I should also add that I have these items fed from my critical
system/endurance buss so this switch can be
bypassed.
Todd (still using a stock turbo
with no problems) (ok, so I don't actually have time to fly anymore, but I
didn't have any problems, when I used to fly before I had a kid
:-)
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