Mark,
Did the stuff get on the bottom of your
plane? Has this affected
the sound of your exhaust? Did Dennis’ muffler do this?
I noticed his muffler had a white coating on
the outside like it had
been hot. Has yours turned color?
I wonder how hot the muffler gets at high
power settings? Didn’t
you say something about a hand held temp gage?
Bill B
From: Rotary motors in aircraft
[mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of Mark Steitle
Sent: Sunday, January
13, 2008
9:40 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary]
Re: What's
this
OK, I
can see this is
going nowhere. So I guess I'll have to tell you. This is what
came out of my new HP-2 muffler after a short 20 minute flight. What
you
saw in the previous picture was the packing material MELTING and
dripping out
the end of the muffler. In the second picture, you can see it oozing
out
of the little holes in the intermediate housing. I was expecting it to
"blow out" eventually, but I wasn't expecting it to melt and run out
the tailpipe. This just blows my mind. Where to go from here???
Maybe I should replace the packing with titanium shavings, or lithium
crystals.
Mark