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From: "george lendich" <lendich@optusnet.com.au>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
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Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Break-In?
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 07:20:47 +1000
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Bob W,
Here's another business opportunity Bob.
George (down under)

> Hi Jim,
>
> The Mazda unit is a small float that activates a magnetic switch.  It
> goes into the side of the pan with an O-ring seal, and seems to be
> surrounded internally with a baffle.  It's probably not worth
> considering converting to Lycoming use.  Besides it sells for Lycoming
> prices anyway.  You could probably make something like the
> Skinny-Dipper probe Jesse found for less money.
>
> Bob W.
>
>
> On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 09:08:31 -0600
> Jim Sower <canarder@frontiernet.net> wrote:
>
> > True enough. But if it's reliable and sufficiently generic, it might
> > serve Lycoming owners (of which, sadly, I am one) well. As you are
> > probably aware, one of the more interesting features of Lycs is the
> > front seal, which has a nasty habit of "falling out" at irregular
> > intervals for reasons best known to itself (most recent example: just a
> > few hours TTSN). Major thread around that on the Cozy list as we speak.
> > The problem is aggravated with pushers since we have no way to detect
> > the failure until the oil pressure goes to zero, and that's pretty late
> > in the game.
> >
> > What's it look like? How does it work? How is it installed? ... Jim S.
> >
> >
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