REFLECTOR:Re: Exhaust system

[KeithHallsten]

Jim,

I'm happy to hear that your recent exhaust failure didn't result in a more
serious incident, but. . .

You are putting on the same exhaust system that you have already proven is
unsafe?!?!  Say it isn't so!  It seems to me you should be doing some
serious thinking about designing a more reliable exhaust system.  You might
start with talking to Clint Anderson at Custom Aircraft Parts (see
http://www.customaircraft.com/).  He built a custom exhaust for my IO-540
that I believe will be much less prone to shedding the tailpipe through the
prop than the Velocity exhaust, for about the same price.  The life you save
may be you own!

Keith


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Sower" <canarder@frontiernet.net>
To: <reflector@tvbf.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR:Catto prop incident ....


> <... one tough son of a bitch prop that eats 5/8 nuts ... Go Catto!!! ...>
> Yeah.  Comforting to know it could probably have survived the alternator
too :o)
>
> BTW, This latest one is the second exhaust pipe I've gotten from Velocity.
Neither
> one of them would go on the studs without setting them just right and
flailing them
> with the ball of my hand.  The first time, I thought I'd gotten one that
wasn't jigged
> up just right.  Now I'm 2 for 2 and expecting my SS pipe to arrive any day
(hoping?)
> and wondering if perhaps angle valve IO-360 is maybe a little bit
different from
> regular O-360.
>
> Has anyone else had O-360 pipes that didn't fit right (on the studs, not
the cowl
> nipples) ... Jim S.
>
> Scott wrote:
>
> > Jim,
> >
> > Its always good to hear of a "good" accident!
> >
> > I also am being pushed around by a Catto.
> >
> > I've eaten 2 cowl screws.  I also had a 5/8 nut come off my alternator
> > mount, it of course went through the prop.
> >
> > I didn't hear it like you did, but geezz was I surprised  when I
> > pre-flighted the next flight and found a big ol gash on the back side of
> > one blade.  Another much smaller gash on the backside of another
blade(the
> > washer of course).  The bolt hit the back side so hard it blew the paint
> > off the front side of the blade.  I sanded it down and did a standard
> > fiberglass repair to fix the two layers of fiberglass it fractured.
There
> > were a whole lot more layers of glass under the fractured ones but they
> > were undamaged.
> >
> > I called Craig when I was ready to paint, to get the color.  He said I
> > could have just filled it with flox and run with it.  Oh well...
> >
> > Its nice to know your flying with one tough son of a bitch prop that
eats
> > 5/8 nuts for lunch and doesn't even burp.
> >
> > Scott
> >
> > Go Catto!!!
>
> --
> Jim Sower
> Crossville, TN; Chapter 5
> Long-EZ N83RT, Velocity N4095T
>
>
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