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Tracy,
That is good to know. I have always thought that with the big plain bearing on the prop shaft your redrive would be a natural for CS. I don't think the current housing is large enough to accept any kind of helical drive for the governor though. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Possibly a clamp on v-belt drive at the front? With a lot of people putting together packages for the RV-10 a CS setup is overdue. IMHO
Bill jepson
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From: lors01@msn.com
To: flyrotary@lancaironline.net
Sent: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:32 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: hydraulic constant speed prop for rotarys
All RD-1A/B/C drives have hollow prop shafts (for weight savings). I have sold a few drives to 3rd party developers who did the Hyd. CS conversion themselves. No feedback yet.
Tracy
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Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 11:46 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: hydraulic constant speed prop for rotarys
Dave, if you go with a Mistral PSRU you can run any Hyd/CS you want. I'm supprised Tracy hasn't gone to a hollow shaft on his PSRU since he runs a big plain bearing he could set up a port for a CS prop.
Bill Jepson
HEY! That's like saying that the store is giving out free ice cream but not telling us which store.. :-)
Dave Leonard
On 12/18/06, lou rubin <grdflyguy@yahoo.com> wrote:
While we are on the subject of props I want to bring
to the groups attention we are installing a constant
speed hydraulic prop on a SA2 hub with Tracys 2.17 RD
The prop is very similar to MT design except its about
half the price & actuated hydraulically instead of
electrically. Im the past we havnt had any other CS
prop options except the electric because we dont
incorporate a hollow crankshaft as our Lycoming &
Continental cousins . We are mounting the prop on a
20B in a Lancair ES however, it could be just as
easily installed on a 13B as well We will keep you
posted on our progress
We will be selling our IVO Magnum if there is anyone
interested & possibly the 2.17 RD in the future
Lou N117ES
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