Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #39772
From: Christopher Barber <CBarber@TexasAttorney.net>
Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re: Hose clamp myth busters
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 12:13:41 -0500
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Good thread.  Thanks for the insight and passed on experience and knowledge.  Great data to put in my mobile bio database I keep stored in my skull.
 
Off to the gym and then the hangar to start wrapping my radiator for cooling ducting.  Wahoooo.
 
All the best,
 
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net]On Behalf Of Kelly Troyer
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 9:07 AM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Hose clamp myth busters

Guess you could classify spring type clamps as "Poor Mans Constant Torque Clamps"
--
Kelly Troyer
"Dyke Delta"_13B ROTARY Engine
"RWS"_RD1C/EC2/EM2
"Mistral"_Backplate/Oil Manifold




-------------- Original message from Bulent Aliev <atlasyts@bellsouth.net>: --------------


> Dale, I used them a lot on low pressure fuel hoses and small diameter
> cooling hoses. Never failed and I liked them better than the screw
> type clamps.
> Buly
>
>
> On Oct 7, 2007, at 11:04 PM, Dale Rogers wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Maybe this is one of those things that isn't terribly obvious,
> > but -
> > having used a variety of screw type clamps - I'm wondering why
> > plain old spring clamps aren't suitable for this application. I can't
> > ever remember having one fail in service. (photos below)
> >
> > Dale R.
> > COZY MkIV #0497
> > Ch.12; Ch's 13, 16, 19 & 23 in-progress
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