REFLECTOR:Catto prop incident ....

[Brian Michalk]

Why doesn't Velocity make them with slip joints?  It would be easier to
install, and would result in less stress.

 Brian Michalk  <http://www.michalk.com>
Life is what you make of it ... never wish you had done something.
Aviator, experimental aircraft builder, motorcyclist, SCUBA diver
musician, home-brewer, entrepreneur and barely single


> -----Original Message-----
> From: reflector-admin@tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-admin@tvbf.org]On
> Behalf Of Jim Sower
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 6:02 PM
> To: reflector@tvbf.org
> 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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