George,
To tell the truth I didn't know about that (trying the plates) either. What Richard has done is a fine piece of work. The fact is that the all steel brazed housing is lighter supprised me as well. The need to mount the stationary gears is one of the things that also adds weight. BTW you don't even need to use chrome molly steel. Any decent low carbon will do. Remember you are only replacing cast iron.
BillSent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
From: "George Lendich" <lendich@aanet.com.au>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:19:30 +1000 To: Rotary motors in aircraft<flyrotary@lancaironline.net> Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Lightweight rotary parts and engine mounts
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The steel plates (lightened) are actually lighter than the sandwich steel
and aluminum plates PSport actually tried it.
Bill Jepson
Bill ,
I wasn't aware of PS considered this concept and actually tried it , I
was half way through this process , some time ago, but when I machined the
wear plate out of a housing, I soon realized that there wasn't enough weight
savings to warrant the cost so didn't proceed.
George ( down under)
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