---------------------------------------------------------- Commander-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Thu 12/02/04: 3 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 06:29 PM - Hey, Where's My List Mail Today...? (Matt Dralle) 2. 06:43 PM - Lessons learned (Chris Schuermann) 3. 07:55 PM - Re: Lessons learned () ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 06:29:45 PM PST US From: Matt Dralle Subject: Commander-List: Hey, Where's My List Mail Today...? --> Commander-List message posted by: Matt Dralle Dear Listers, My sincere apologies today! This morning (Thursday) at about 3am the Matronics Firewall broke. About 9am I was able to bring up an older firewall and got everything back on line, or so I thought... While the web pages were working, I had neglected to add a policy that allowed incoming email to get to the email server (actually the SPAM filtering appliance). I just checked my email for the first time today and noticed that I hadn't gotten any List mail today. Hum, I thought, this can't be good!! Anyway, I'm going to enable incoming email now on the firewall and things should be back to normal. I'm sure sorry for the oversight. Hopefully nobody had any withdrawals from lack of List banter today!! :-) Best regards, Matt Dralle Email List Administrator Matt G Dralle | Matronics | PO Box 347 | Livermore | CA | 94551 925-606-1001 V | 925-606-6281 F | dralle@matronics.com Email http://www.matronics.com/ WWW | Featuring Products For Aircraft do not archive ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 06:43:09 PM PST US From: Chris Schuermann Subject: Commander-List: Lessons learned --> Commander-List message posted by: Chris Schuermann Howdy all. Thought I'd share my current excitement with everyone. A couple weeks ago, I found a bit of "glitter" in the oil screen of my right engine. Wasn't very much, just a few tiny flakes. Since both of my engines are now right at 2000 hours, I decided to listen to what they were telling me and made the call to overhaul. Since funds are a bit tight right now, I opted to do as much of the up-front labor as possible. I pulled both engines and did the teardown and cleaning. I found exactly what I expected - two beautiful, clean engines with no sign of distress at all, but one lifter beginning to spall in each engine. The reason I decided to pass this along is that the shop owner showed me another engine he'd just completed tearing down for overhaul. The owner had flown the engine about 200 hours past TBO as it was running great and had only recently had a "few flecks of metal in the filter". When the crank was inspected, the shop found that it was worn past service limits. The mechanic showed it to me with the explaination that a replacement crank was going to bump the overhaul cost by about $6000. If the owner had pulled it AT TBO, it would have saved him a lot of money. Other than possibly having to replace one cam, it looks like I got lucky. I'm sure glad I didn't decide to ignore the quiet little signs - it was VERY tempting as these were two of the sweetest running engines I've ever flown behind. Great compressions, perfect oil pressure, etc. It was time... cheers all chris ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 07:55:58 PM PST US From: Subject: Re: Commander-List: Lessons learned --> Commander-List message posted by: G'day Chris, Thanks for the "heads-up". Sobering thought for us all! Cheers Russell ---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 20:47:14 -0600 >From: Chris Schuermann >Subject: Commander-List: Lessons learned >To: commander-list@matronics.com > >--> Commander-List message posted by: Chris Schuermann < cschuerm@cox.net> > >Howdy all. Thought I'd share my current excitement with everyone. >A couple weeks ago, I found a bit of "glitter" in the oil screen of my >right engine. Wasn't very much, just a few tiny flakes. Since both of >my engines are now right at 2000 hours, I decided to listen to what they >were telling me and made the call to overhaul. >Since funds are a bit tight right now, I opted to do as much of the >up-front labor as possible. I pulled both engines and did the teardown >and cleaning. I found exactly what I expected - two beautiful, clean >engines with no sign of distress at all, but one lifter beginning to >spall in each engine. >The reason I decided to pass this along is that the shop owner showed me >another engine he'd just completed tearing down for overhaul. The owner >had flown the engine about 200 hours past TBO as it was running great >and had only recently had a "few flecks of metal in the filter". When >the crank was inspected, the shop found that it was worn past service >limits. The mechanic showed it to me with the explaination that a >replacement crank was going to bump the overhaul cost by about $6000. >If the owner had pulled it AT TBO, it would have saved him a lot of money. >Other than possibly having to replace one cam, it looks like I got >lucky. I'm sure glad I didn't decide to ignore the quiet little signs - >it was VERY tempting as these were two of the sweetest running engines >I've ever flown behind. Great compressions, perfect oil pressure, etc. > It was time... > >cheers all >chris > > ======================== ======================== ======================== ======================== > >