X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from securemail.ever-tek.com ([64.129.170.194] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.3.9) with ESMTP id 4508536 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 11:49:11 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=64.129.170.194; envelope-from=cbarber@texasattorney.net Received: from fcd-mail06.FCDATA.PRIVATE ([2002:404:40b::404:40b]) by FCD-MAIL06.FCDATA.PRIVATE ([::1]) with mapi; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 10:48:46 -0500 From: Chris Barber To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Gettng "hosed" Thread-Topic: Gettng "hosed" Thread-Index: ActtSZ05sqlh9XoqRiSU7PS65HYlJw== Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:48:44 +0000 Message-ID: <2D41F9BF3B5F9842B164AF93214F3D3032738572@FCD-MAIL06.FCDATA.PRIVATE> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_000_2D41F9BF3B5F9842B164AF93214F3D3032738572FCDMAIL06FCDATA_" MIME-Version: 1.0 --_000_2D41F9BF3B5F9842B164AF93214F3D3032738572FCDMAIL06FCDATA_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am patiently waiting (kinda) for the return of my hoses from a friends A/= C A/C (aircraft air conditioning) shop in AZ. A few months ago while cranking up the power a bit on the rotary, I looked = back a moment from the cabin and notice a huge black slick under my engine.= Yep, sure enough, I had lost a hose. Upon inspection, the culprit was me....in that the hose had slipped out of = the fitting. I looked at the end that slipped out and I had done a piss poo= r job of assembly. I did notice it to be one of my early attempts. However,= the incident got me quite concerned about the other dozen or so hoses I ha= d made. It really became a bit of an intellectual distraction. So, since I had to remove the engine several days ago to repair the cause o= f an oil pressure loss, I removed all the hoses from my plane and sent them= to this friends shop (Seamech) to have them all pressure tested. Happily t= hey all passed pressure testing well past what they should ever see. The te= st were performed by real live certified by the FAA types....quite the unco= mmon experience for my planes parts ;-0 You can see a few pix of the hoses on the test table/rig by linking to the = CanardAviation forum at http://forum.canardaviation.com/showthread.php?p=3D60501#post60501 . Since I can have a knack for the obvious, I am really pleased that I took t= his step. With all the work we do majoring in minor details, this one will = hopefully add to some piece of mind. The hoses are at the FedEx facility here in Houston. Since today is Saturda= y, do not expect them to be delivered until Monday....then, on with the Sag= a. Chris --_000_2D41F9BF3B5F9842B164AF93214F3D3032738572FCDMAIL06FCDATA_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I am patiently waiting (kinda) for the ret= urn of my hoses from a friends A/C A/C (ai= rcraft air conditioning) shop in AZ.

A few months ago while cranking up the power a bit on th= e rotary, I looked back a moment from the cabin and notice a huge black sli= ck under my engine. Yep, sure enough, I had lost a hose.

Upon inspection, the culprit was me....in that the hose had sli= pped out of the fitting. I looked at the end that= slipped out and I had done a piss poor job of assembly. I did notic= e it to be one of my early attempts. However, the incident got me quite concerned about the other dozen or so hoses I ha= d made. It really became a bit of an intellectual distraction.

So, since I had to remove the engine several days ago to r= epair the cause of an oil pressure loss, I removed all the hoses fro= m my plane and sent them to this friends shop (Seamech= ) to have them all pressure tested. Happily they all passed pressure testing well past what they should ever s= ee. The test were performed by real live certified by the FAA types....quit= e the uncommon experience for my planes parts ;-0

You can see a few pix of the hoses on the test table/rig by linking to the&= nbsp;CanardAviation forum at
http://forum.canardaviation.com/showthread.php?p=3D60501#post60501=   .

Since I can have a knack for the obvious, I am really pleased t= hat I took this step. With all the work we do majoring in minor details, th= is one will hopefully add to some piece of mind.

The hoses are at the FedEx facility here in Houston. Since toda= y is Saturday, do not expect them to be delivered until Monday....then= , on with the Saga.

Chris
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