----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday,
December 22, 2004 12:26 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re:
front cover oil fitting thread?
Hi
Rusty;
Even though I would prefer to see
everything switched over to metric, I concede that this won't happen
anytime soon, so to simplify things, I drilled and tapped all oil fittings on
my block to NPT. As I wanted to use Parker/Swagelok fittings and hose on my
installation since this is what I use at work for industrial instrumentation,
it was well worth it for me to switch. Since cost and availability is not an
issue, I will not hesitate to change hoses every 100 hours.
I had already assembled my block when I made this decision, so I
connected compressed air to another fitting to have an airflow while drilling
and tapping to ensure no metal chips entered the oil passageways.
Given that you have the American aversion to all things metric, I would
have expected that you and others would have done this already, allowing more
flexibility and greater access to fittings.
Todd
Bartrim (I don't understand how a country that fought
so hard for independence from British rule, refuses to give up a measurement
system based on a dead English king's various body parts?)
Turbo
13B
RX-9endurance
C-FSTB
http://www3.telus.net/haywire/RV-9/C-FSTB.htm
"Imagination is more important than knowledge"
-Albert Einstein
-----Original Message-----
From: Rotary
motors in aircraft [SMTP:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Russell
Duffy
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 2:52 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject:
[FlyRotary]
Re: front cover oil fitting thread?
I need a new adapter for the front cover, to go from
whatever that metric thread is, to AN10. I can't seem to find anything in
my notes that identifies that metric thread. Can someone tell me what it
is?
I stumbled across the answer in one of my own
posts in the archives. The front cover fitting is 16mm x
1.5 according to the post. If someone knows that to be wrong, let me
know.
Cheers,
Rusty
(talking to myself)