> Talk about embarrassed and frustrated....   What's wrong with my latest
 > rebuild?  :-(
 >
 > Dave
 >

 I can't believe you did that Dave :-)

 Paul Lamar

Did you ever bounce a landing 5 or 6 times and take credit for 5 or 6
landings?  That's what I got yesterday on the rebuild.  I really should have
quit and come back another day.  Here is a recount of the experience...

To start with, either Hylomar SUCKS or I got a bad tube of it.  The tube was
half empty and it was very firm.  It wouldn't flow out unless I heated it in
water first and it wouldn't stick to the parts unless I baked them in the
oven until I almost couldn't touch them....

1.  About to lower the center housing - check for oil-passage o-ring..
check...  but then remember I forgot this check when lowering the front rotor
housing.  Remove rotor housing replace o-ring, replace housing, replace apex
springs...

2.  About to put on rear end housing and notice the potters clay in the rotor
housing which should be facing the center housing...  The rotor housings are
reversed!!!  Take it all down and start over.

3.  Finish my second-and-a-half rebuild of the day... take a step back to
admire the work....   aw shit!  (see picture)...  how could I possibly have
done that?!  Start over.

4.  Finish putting it all together again, take a step back to admire the work
again (as if there was anything admirable about it..) and see the small pile
of apex seal springs sitting next to the engine.  #$%%^$#%^    Take off rear
housing and put springs into rear rotor.

At least I never made the same mistake twice.  So, who wants to go flying with
me?  :-)

My helper for the evening was Don Prince.  An RV-6 builder who lives in my
complex and used to race Mazdas in the 70's and has several hundred rebuilds
to his name...   Strangely enough, I think the experience may have persuaded
Don to put a rotary in his RV-6..  go figure?

Dave Leonard

Sounds like it might be a wise idea to do a check list first in order of assembly.

Paul Lamar

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