Return-Path: Received: from [24.25.9.102] (HELO ms-smtp-03-eri0.southeast.rr.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.5) with ESMTP id 564681 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 18:37:19 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=24.25.9.102; envelope-from=echristley@nc.rr.com Received: from nc.rr.com (cpe-024-211-191-066.nc.rr.com [24.211.191.66]) by ms-smtp-03-eri0.southeast.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id iBCNb1kc004401 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 18:37:01 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41BCCC44.5010902@nc.rr.com> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 17:55:00 -0500 From: Ernest Christley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Serious single rotor questions References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine David Staten wrote: > I was in the process of tearing down engines 2 and 3, to blast the housings, > then transport them up to the airport (essentially so I could move all my tools > up there too and not have to transport em back and forth....).. and I finally > gave up and bought a 3/4" drive impact from a pawn shop.. three times has heavy > as the CH one. Put it on, set it on the lowest setting, and a single one second > pull spun off the nut. HALLELUJAH! > > Dave > If you get stuck in the future, Dave (and you don't have access to the large impact wrench) try leaning on the nut a bit and giving it a light tap with a hammer. -- http://www.ernest.isa-geek.org/ "This is by far the hardest lesson about freedom. It goes against instinct, and morality, to just sit back and watch people make mistakes. We want to help them, which means control them and their decisions, but in doing so we actually hurt them (and ourselves)."