X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.121] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.13) with ESMTP id 3585471 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:31:40 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=75.180.132.121; envelope-from=eanderson@carolina.rr.com Received: from computername ([75.191.186.236]) by cdptpa-omta02.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090418113102969.UMAU9765.cdptpa-omta02.mail.rr.com> for ; Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:31:02 +0000 From: "Ed Anderson" To: "'Rotary motors in aircraft'" Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] It's an airplane. \ Gearbox Chip Detector Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:31:07 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0025_01C9BFF7.A3DA4D70" X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 Thread-Index: Acm/xrsWjY7OM/HdTg6Zf52Vaz549gAUjEuA In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 Message-Id: <20090418113102969.UMAU9765.cdptpa-omta02.mail.rr.com> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0025_01C9BFF7.A3DA4D70 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Good to hear you are about ready for that first flight, Bobby. Glad to hear you paid attention to the safety (chip detector) - while false alarms can be irritating, much better to sort out on the ground! Looking forward to your first flight report. Ed Ed Anderson Rv-6A N494BW Rotary Powered Matthews, NC eanderson@carolina.rr.com http://www.andersonee.com http://www.dmack.net/mazda/index.html http://www.flyrotary.com/ http://members.cox.net/rogersda/rotary/configs.htm#N494BW http://www.rotaryaviation.com/Rotorhead%20Truth.htm _____ From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Bobby J. Hughes Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 10:41 PM To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: [FlyRotary] It's an airplane. \ Gearbox Chip Detector DAR inspected the plane on Thursday and issued Phase 1 restrictions. After closing the covers I taxied out for more tuning. My chip detector went off so back to the hanger. I pulled the magnetic plug and could see one small chip. It was a little smaller than a pin head. Since it was the third warning in 18 hours I decided to dissemble the gearbox and take a look. Much to my surprise I couldn't find any problem with the internals. Bearings, gears and the spline all looked perfect. I did find extra RTV in the machined pocket by one of the oil drain holes. Fortunately it had adhered to the aluminum and was not blocking the oil exit. The chip detector is located in a machined aluminum block between the gearbox oil exits and the oil pan. The block also has a temperature sensor. The detector may be overly sensitive but I am confident it will provide advanced warning of a major problem. Bobby Hughes RV10 Supercharged Renesis. __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3267 (20080714) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ------=_NextPart_000_0025_01C9BFF7.A3DA4D70 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Good to hear you are about ready = for that first flight, Bobby.

 

Glad to hear you paid attention to = the safety (chip detector) – while false alarms can be irritating, much = better to sort out on the ground!

 

Looking forward to your first = flight report.

 

Ed

 

From: = Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Bobby J. Hughes
Sent: Friday, April 17, = 2009 10:41 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] It's = an airplane. \ Gearbox Chip Detector

 

DAR inspected the plane on Thursday and issued Phase = 1 restrictions. After closing the covers I taxied out for more = tuning. My chip detector went off so back to the hanger. I pulled the magnetic plug and could see one small chip. It was a little smaller = than a pin head. Since it was the third warning in 18 hours I decided to dissemble = the gearbox and take a look. Much to my surprise I couldn't find any = problem with the internals. Bearings, gears and the spline all looked perfect. I = did find extra RTV in the machined pocket by one of the oil drain holes. Fortunately it had adhered to the aluminum and was not blocking the oil exit.  The chip detector is located in a machined aluminum = block between the gearbox oil exits and the oil pan. The block also has a = temperature sensor. The detector may be overly sensitive but I am confident it will = provide advanced warning of a major problem.

 

Bobby Hughes

RV10 Supercharged Renesis. =

 

 

 



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