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----- Original Message -----
From: "echristley" <echristley@nc.rr.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 3:40 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: The Final? Story on the Engine problem
>Photo Apex Departing Slot clearly shows where the missing piece of the
apex
>seal bent over the straight edge of its slot when it departed. Apparently
>when it left the clearance was getting less and the departing edge was
>apparently caught between the lip of the slot and the rotor housing
forming
>a flatten corner.
>
Ed,
How well does the position of the break line up with your exhaust port?
Are
there any tiny chips near the break that look like they may have been
around
a while?
I'm thinking of the possibility of a piece of debris chipping the seal in
the vicinity of where it flexes as it crosses over the exhaust hole.
Stress
riser, being the unpredicable ^%&# they are, will always give out just as
you cross the limit of not being able to glide home.
A good point, Ernest, I'll have to go back out and check the pieces in
better light or better yet bring them in the house where i have a couple of
magnifying glasses.
Ed
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