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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

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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