X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com X-PolluStop: No license found, only first 5 messages were scanned Return-Path: Received: from imo-d05.mx.aol.com ([205.188.157.37] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1c.1) with ESMTP id 1208333 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:31:27 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=205.188.157.37; envelope-from=Lehanover@aol.com Received: from Lehanover@aol.com by imo-d05.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.5.) id q.2c5.a730cd0 (14467) for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:30:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Lehanover@aol.com Message-ID: <2c5.a730cd0.31d2a917@aol.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:30:31 EDT Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Rotor Corner Seals To: flyrotary@lancaironline.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-----------------------------1151422231" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 5319 X-Spam-Flag: NO -------------------------------1151422231 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 6/27/2006 11:22:06 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, keltro@att.net writes: Group, I need an opinion from Lynn Hanover and/or anyone else of the group on the use of solid rotor corner seals in place of the stock seals with the rubber plug in them........The rubber plugs tend to harden over long term use because heat and probably become ineffective........IMHO -- Kelly Troyer Dyke Delta/13B/RD1C/EC2 You answered your question. You left out more likely to break, but you have to break one to know that. The newer design seals better early in the engines life. I don't know of anyone who uses them in high performance applications. In ported engines the rubber plug can fall into the port. The early solid corners is what I use. Aircraft engines have to qualify as high performance from the duty cycle point of view. Lynn E. Hanover -------------------------------1151422231 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

In a message dated 6/27/2006 11:22:06 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,=20 keltro@att.net writes:

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You answered your question. You left out more likely to break, but you=20= have=20 to break one to know that. The newer design seals better early in the=20 engines life. I don't know of anyone who uses them in high performance=20 applications. In ported engines the rubber plug can fall into the port. The=20 early solid corners is what I use. Aircraft engines have to qualify as high=20 performance from the duty cycle point of view.

Lynn E. Hanover

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