REFLECTOR: Epoxy and Carbon Spinners / Lampshade flow guideissue

[Velocity]

Did this happen just from the heat of the engine ? 
Was the exhaust real close?

Ron
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: aminetech at bluefrog.com 
  To: Brett Ferrell ; Velocity Aircraft Owners andBuilders list 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 6:41 PM
  Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Epoxy and Carbon Spinners / Lampshade flow guideissue


  It's amazing how heat can vaporize epoxy.  One of my exhaust pipes was too close to the cowl.  The epoxy vaporized, leaving a shredded fine mesh of fiberglass.

  John

  --- reflector at velocityxl.com wrote:

  From: "Brett Ferrell" <reflector at velocityxl.com>
  To: reflector <reflector at tvbf.org>
  Subject: REFLECTOR: Epoxy and Carbon Spinners / Lampshade flow guide issue
  Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:45:17 -0500


  For folks with carbon spinners (well, really epoxy bulkheads or lampshade style flowguides) should take note of James Redmond's find on the Stagger EZ.  I'd been concerned about this since Marc Zeitlin's incident and replaced my spinner bulkhead with a metal one from Spruce, but here is another example of one that overheated and cooked the epoxy, and detensioned the prop bolts.  Be careful out there.


  Brett















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