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Hi Perry,

Disappointed to hear that TCP did not work. May I ask "in what regard?". Did the O2 sensor degrade? - SAG occur?

I purchased this product (Decalin) appears to function similar to TCP and I noticed they say to clean the O2 sensor every 20 hours as well. I have not tried it yet, but intend to in the near future.

Ed A

----- Original Message -----

From: Perry Mick

To: Rotary motors in aircraft

Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 9:50 AM

Subject: [FlyRotary] ducted fan

I could design and build something for your one-rotor but it wouldn't be
cheap! (because of the time involved).

Hi Perry,

Just hold that thought for now. The other thing is that there's no reason to believe it would solve the torque reversal issue, so I'd better find out more about that before I start looking into the next option.

BTW, we don't hear much from you. Is the non-ducted fan version still working out well?

Thanks,

Rusty

I'm just flying and lurking. If there is something on the list that interests me I will respond.
I aquired about 500 hours on the ducted fan and something over 50 on the PSRU now. Everything is great, no glider time.
I flew from Oregon to Kansas and back last July, a wonderful and uneventful trip, except I learned once again I can't burn 100LL and the TCP fuel additive does not work.
http://www.bridgingworlds.com/k61/k61_photos.htm

Yes, the torque reversal would still be an issue, and I expect you will need some amount of flywheel. I had the stock heavy manual transmission flywheel on my ducted fan. I intended to replace it with a lighter weight racing aluminum flywheel, but was concerned about the strength of it and never got that far.

Perry