X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.120] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.12) with ESMTP id 2375068 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:03:37 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=75.180.132.120; envelope-from=eanderson@carolina.rr.com Received: from edward2 ([24.74.103.61]) by cdptpa-omta04.mail.rr.com with SMTP id <20071008120300.WMQJ2011.cdptpa-omta04.mail.rr.com@edward2> for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2007 12:03:00 +0000 Message-ID: <004201c809a3$37a09850$2402a8c0@edward2> From: "Ed Anderson" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" References: Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Mazda video on how to make a rotary.... Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 08:03:19 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 When my engine swallowed and apex seal, a piece of it flew back and got squished by the next apex seal area and actually caused a corner of the rotor to crack. So it appeared to be harder than the rest of the rotor which was soft enough for the metal to smear. Interesting videos for sure, thanks for sharing, Marc Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc Wiese" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 9:48 PM Subject: [FlyRotary] Mazda video on how to make a rotary.... http://www.mazda.com/mazdaspirit/rotary/howto/index.html Interesting. I never heard about the high frequency RF hardening of the apex seal slot area before.....! Marc Wiese ================================================== Fellow RE enthusiast. Mazda Japan has released a very interesting set of small videos that detail how it creates and builds its Rotary Engines. http://rotarynews.com/node/view/950 -- Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ Archive and UnSub: http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/flyrotary/List.html