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Yeah, Chuck Dunlap had the pin fall out over the
Grand Canyon region - managed to get it onto a road after dodging a truck with
minimal damage. Pin had worked loose and fallen into the intake port
- chewed up the rotor.
I would take ALL the mechanism related to the aux
valve and epoxy the vacated region smooth - that is what I did on my 86
N/A.
Ed
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Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 11:21
AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: I think I
screwed up
Ernest,
Also, don't forget the failure (can't recall who
it was) that was caused by the pin in the actuator falling out and being
ingested by the engine.
Mark S.
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Tracy Crook < tracy@rotaryaviation.com>
wrote:
I don't understand the problem. The ONLY reason to leave the
insert in after streamlining it with epoxy is (as I did on my first engine)
to avoid taking the engine apart. I had to take that junkyard
engine apart later anyway because of BIG oil burning (cooked oil
control O-rings).
My take on it - Leave it alone and drive on.
Tracy
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Ernest Christley
< echristley@nc.rr.com> wrote:
I
think Chris and I are getting into a battle to see who can destroy
the
most rotary parts the fastest.
I mixed up some JB-Weld and
aluminum powder to fill in the upper runner
on my side housings.
I'm using the 6-port, which usually caries an
insert in the upper
runner. The insert ends with a flat wall, so the
SOP is to fill
it in with some epoxy to form a smooth curve into
the
chamber.
Knuckle-head that I am, I just filled in the end of
the runner, not the
insert. I didn't notice until I was checking
the profile of the rear
side housing to make sure that it matched the
front. That was AFTER the
JBWeld had set, of course.
The
question now is "Will the slightly larger diameter for those two
inches
make a noticable difference in the engines performance?" If
the
answer is what I think it is, I have the option of using a front
housing
that has a little more wear, or dig out the JBWeld
and get an insert.
(Does anyone have an extra lying
around?
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