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1. 12:53 PM - Re: Re: Attending Rough River Fly-in... (Michael Grass)
2. 08:17 PM - Re: Broken Mag wire (JEFF ROBERTS)
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| Subject: | Re: Attending Rough River Fly-in... |
Tentative, depending if weather is forecasts OK for the weekend. Arriving in
a C-150 on Saturday going back on Monday
Michael Grass
A-266 Trigear
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul McAllister" <paul.mcallister@qia.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 7:18 PM
Subject: RE: Europa-List: Re: Attending Rough River Fly-in...
> <paul.mcallister@qia.net>
>
>
> 1. Jeff Behrnes 225 773-9671 cell N55XS Baby Blue Tri-gear
> 2. Steve & Bobbi Crimm 678-461-7957 Home N42AH (Tentative) Mono
> 3. Jeff Roberts 615-406-8651 Cell N128LJ Gold Rush Tri-Gear
> 4. Andrew Sarangan 937-830-1610 arriving in a Zodiac.
> 5. Troy & Donna Maynor 828-778-7702 cell. Driving in Wed.PM till Sat
> 6. Jim & Heather Butcher, 269-599-0122 cell
> 7. Chuck & Marilyn Rhoads 502-410-1357 Geo-Metro powered Tri-gear
> 8. Paul McAllister 262 993 4483 cell. N378PJ Mono
> 9. Bud Yerly Cell 813 244-8354 Driving in a
> 10. Gary Leinberger - flying in with Mooney Friday to Monday -
> 717-682-9726
> 11. Julie & Tim Miller - Driving
> 12. Ron Parigoris 631-839-3636 cell driving in Friday afternoon
> 13. Wayne Gutschow 631-796-6431 cell driving in Friday afternoon
> 14. Jim Puglise, Lynne Puglise, cell 941-875-5684
> 15. Scott & Corky Dingman N108EA, Cell 937-416-8080
> 16. John Lawton, flying in each day, N245E
> 17. Dave Miller, driving
> 18. Ken Carpenter 865 805 3520 cell N 9XS Mono
> 19. Michael Grass, 586-822-0333 cell ariving in a C150
> If I have missed anyone please let me know - Paul
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| Subject: | Re: Broken Mag wire |
Thanks Bud and all else!
I have fixed the wire by soldering on a 6 inch or so pig tail of high
quality aircraft wire then crimped them to the Mag wires going to the
switch. I did away with the rotax connectors and per all your advices
tie wrapped them securely so there are no lose wires. All works well.
On my cooling issues it's just a mater of too high of pressure in the
lower cowl not letting the upper air from the top intakes down through.
Until now the lower NACA was just shooting air into the lower cowl with
no direction causing the this high pressure. John Hurst told me some
time ago the demonstrator was set up this way and it was fine. This
overheating never showed until this hot Tennessee heat wave hit. Again
I believe I'll have it solved. I have glassed in the lower NACA to
receive a 2 inch scat tube. This I will run to the upper part of the
cowl. I hope it eliminates the high, lower cowl pressure and increases
the top air pressure to force more air cooling down through the
cylinders. I should have it all fixed in time for next weekend's
fly-in at Rough River.
I am looking forward to seeing old friends and some new ones. It's
amazing how many people we all have become friends with over this forum
and this is a chance to finally put faces to them.
If there are any Europa flyers or builders that have not committed to
coming this weekend to Rough River KY. I would encourage you to do so.
Weather permitting of course.
Best Regards,
Jeff R.
A258 - N128LJ / Gold Rush 90 hours and climbing.
On Aug 22, 2007, at 12:41 PM, ALAN YERLY wrote:
> Jeff,
> If the mag wire was not supportedwell at the crimp connector, due to
> the crimping process and or soldering, and the continuous flexing of
> the wire, it will fail due to fatique. If it failed between the
> connector and the mag box, that is a new one to me.The ones I see
> are from the mag wires installed by the owner going to the mag
> connector. Those are cheap and easy connections to replace. The
> older engines and new engines have different style connectors so be
> sure to get the right one.
>
> If in fact it is a broken factory installed wire, send out pictures to
> your Rotax dealer and request a product deficiency report. They have
> pdf files on line and in the owners manual. If you can infoeveryone
> I would appreciate that, as this should be corrected via an AD.
>
> Bud Yerly
> Custom Flight Creations
> customflightcreations.com
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: JEFF ROBERTS
>> To: europa-list@matronics.com
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 11:08 AM
>> Subject: Europa-List: Broken Mag wire
>>
>> Hi Guys,
>> I just was about to go flying this morning to test a few changes I've
>> made as my bird has not been cooling in this heat well. As I did the
>> run-up the right mag didn't drop any RPM's but the right did as it
>> should. My temps started climbing again so I went right back to the
>> hanger. The engine didn't want to shut down so I had to starve it of
>> fuel. I pulled off the cowl right away and as I examined the mag
>> connections one of the wires just snapped off only about an inch from
>> the mag's side of the connection. The wire was very brittle and I'm
>> kind of surprised it's not of better quality. Has this happened to
>> anyone else and has anyone been able to fix it without ordering a new
>> mag itself?
>> Jeff R.
>> A258 - N128LJ / Gold Rush 85 hours and still having cooling issues.
>>
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