X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from [64.12.137.3] (HELO imo-m22.mail.aol.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTP id 1091245 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Wed, 03 May 2006 22:51:29 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=64.12.137.3; envelope-from=Lehanover@aol.com Received: from Lehanover@aol.com by imo-m22.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.5.) id q.3f1.15a922d (58677) for ; Wed, 3 May 2006 22:50:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Lehanover@aol.com Message-ID: <3f1.15a922d.318ac601@aol.com> Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 22:50:41 EDT Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Was Oil Pressure and Now... To: flyrotary@lancaironline.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-----------------------------1146711041" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 5301 X-Spam-Flag: NO -------------------------------1146711041 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Language: en =20 So, where did the oil pressure go? Is the oil pump not damaged? It was =20 pumping chips or they could not be in the filter. =20 Lynn E. Hanover Went to see David Atkins yesterday. He continues to be a good person and=20 business to deal with. He took the time amidst the chaos to have the engine= =20 completely torn down and inspected piece by piece as it was disassembled=20= =E2=80=93 while=20 I was there. It all looked pretty good until the front housing E-shaft=20 bearing. There was definitely some abnormal wear there and some scuff marks= on the=20 E-shaft. There was also some wear on the center bearing but just on the=20 forward 1/10th of an inch. He=E2=80=99s going to replace the bearing and re= build the=20 engine and then check the oil pressure. =20 He suggested I look for any source of chips or anything coming from the=20 PSRU. Something caused that front bearing to get worn way too quickly and h= e=20 suspects there may be a problem with the PSRU since we didn=E2=80=99t find=20= anything in=20 the engine that looked like it was shedding metal.=20 I=E2=80=99ll try to get up to the hangar in the next couple of days to retr= ieve the=20 RD-1B and bring it home for disassembly and inspection.=20 ThanxAll,=20 =20 Joe Hull=20 Cozy Mk-IV #991 (In Phase1 Flight Test - 10.9 hrs flown) =20 Redmond (Seattle), Washington =20 -------------------------------1146711041 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Language: en
So, where did the oil pressure go? Is the oil pump not damaged? It was=20 pumping chips or they could not be in the filter.
 
Lynn E. Hanover
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Went to see Dav= id=20 Atkins yesterday. He continues to be a good person and business to deal wi= th.=20 He took the time amidst the chaos to have the engine completely torn down=20= and=20 inspected piece by piece as it was disassembled =E2=80=93 while I was ther= e. It all=20 looked pretty good until the front housing E-shaft bearing. There was=20 definitely some abnormal wear there and some scuff marks on the E-shaft. T= here=20 was also some wear on the center bearing but just on the forward=20 1/10th of an inch. He=E2=80=99s going to replace the bearing an= d rebuild=20 the engine and then check the oil pressure.

 

He suggested I=20= look=20 for any source of chips or anything coming from the PSRU. Something caused= =20 that front bearing to get worn way too quickly and he suspects there may b= e a=20 problem with the PSRU since we didn=E2=80=99t find anything in the engine=20= that looked=20 like it was shedding metal.

 

I=E2=80=99ll tr= y to get up to=20 the hangar in the next couple of days to retrieve the RD-1B and bring it h= ome=20 for disassembly and inspection.

 

ThanxAll,<= /o:p>

Joe Hull

Cozy Mk-IV #991 (In Phase1 Flight T= est=20 - 10.9 hrs flown)

Redmond (Seattle), Washington

 
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