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From: Bulent Aliev <atlasyts@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Dipstick needed!!
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 21:24:11 -0500
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>

Bernie, I' look around the hangar. I may have one but I'm not sure.
Buly
On Jan 9, 2007, at 2:27 PM, jbker@juno.com wrote:

> This one may go down in history as a real bonehead play!  Someway  
> lost my dipstick. Remember checking the oil when I had the cowling  
> off, put the cowling on, taxi up and down runway and parked  
> airplane for the night. Went out to fly the next morning and  
> coolant dropping out of exit of cowling. Removed cowling and found  
> suspect leak point. Small hose going to pressure transducer had a  
> short barb and the shrink clamp was not completely up on barb.  
> Replaced with narrow mechanical clamp and ran the engine up with  
> cowling off to pressurize system. Several neighbors observing. One  
> said on shutdown , where is your dipstick and I replied from  
> cockpit that it was on the right side middle of engine. His  
> response was yes I see the tube, but where is the dipstick. Duh??
>
> Junk yard will not sell just a dipstick, so hopefully one of you  
> rotorheads who has torn down several engines will have a spare  
> dipstick that I can buy.
>
> Please email me at  jbker@juno.com or call my cell  772 708 0093
>
> thanks, Bernie Kerr