X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from mail-pb0-f52.google.com ([209.85.160.52] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.0c1) with ESMTPS id 5698034 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:49:37 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=209.85.160.52; envelope-from=msteitle@gmail.com Received: by pbcxa7 with SMTP id xa7so397382pbc.25 for ; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:49:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=0nN/4ZCD1krFYsYBeBWlUbwpnT93G4OL8zUQT398bJQ=; b=noXp+kO9A3cVMGg9b6r3MGQIEs3OkwZhIDmk4x6nn7XEsLCz0p0W90vibxBWnurFfP AYSgWmv5G4s+Ur7clXpDxIU6aMJv6pb3QuGPS08zAwbNCLYy7gjF+Jl8jWYER7i0jGTi 25MgJJ2ym4OXrr0eyEi3pSYG9XBf7QLMGr4r+D907NML1mD35VvLF/f/cvbXA8DHXU4o vTnngmkXABaVRMDdjsDD0zvR0WcDCUSIZLBfqTTcUyPLs5NMffyFR1mEQxf4Lz0jhXXp bGmBmoDMhXBL5/AMsMXVzGqxEvUu6PkmQ8XoNLj47jLmoBPz7osfbPkL5+CqSiK0MIGh ZZKA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.201.195 with SMTP id kc3mr31925006pbc.33.1344383341831; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:49:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.162.5 with HTTP; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 16:49:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 18:49:01 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Exhaust flanges From: Mark Steitle To: Rotary motors in aircraft Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=e89a8ff1c8b488264304c6b5a3db --e89a8ff1c8b488264304c6b5a3db Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I made my 3-rotor exhaust flange one piece to try to control expansion/contraction and hopefully prevent cracking. So far, so good. You could always cut a hole in the bridge between the two ports to reduce some weight. Mark S. On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 5:47 PM, wrote: > ** > We're curious about 13B turbo exhaust flanges, is there any reason they > need to be one flange for both pipes or do you think it will seal up fine > with one per? > We're looking for small weight savings as well as easier to build up each > pipe. The other ends of the pipes are floating with a double flange going > into a collector. > > Chrissi & Randi > > --e89a8ff1c8b488264304c6b5a3db Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I made my 3-rotor exhaust flange one piece to try to control expansion/cont= raction and hopefully prevent cracking. =A0So far, so good. =A0You could al= ways cut a hole in the bridge between the two ports to reduce some weight.<= br>
Mark S.

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 5:47 = PM, <CozyGirrrl@aol.com> wrote:
We're curious about 13B turbo exhaust flanges, is there any reason= they=20 need to be one flange for both pipes or do you think it will seal up fine w= ith=20 one per?
We're looking for small weight savings as well as easier to build = up each=20 pipe. The other ends of the pipes are floating with a double flange going i= nto a=20 collector.
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Chrissi &=20 Randi


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