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Kelly,
I read the response from Lynn and agree. The solid ones are earlier corner
seals, might even be 12A corner seals, however the later springs ( under the
corner seals) are better than the earlier spring wire ones.
BTW solid is a misnomer as they still have the slot but not the round hole
below the slot - I feel they put in the round hole for stress
considerations and to give the corner seal some springiness to help seal, but it
leaves the walls too thin and brittle .
George ( down under)
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
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