Paul,
Your a hard man!!

I may well be wrong, but that bellhousing looks remarkably like the one

I

purchased off his mate the wrecker and he was going to ship to me. I can
only assume he needed it more than me.
Any how I don't need it now, this was at the early stage of my

bellhousing

development - it would have been mighty handy at the time however.
Like I said he does have many contacts in Sydney, as a matter of fact

his

mate said he had been throwing those bellhousing in the bin for scrap,

and

only had the one at that time - so it must be the same one.
George (down under)

I was sold a bill of goods by email and when I went over there it was far

from reality.

I suppose he never expected me to show up half way around the world.

Paul Lamar

Paul,
You could very well be right, but I suspect that he likes to be 'much
soughtafter', as I live here and got the same treatment - I flew to Sydney
to see and do it all.

Talk is cheap Paul, I guess it all boils down to if you Talk the Talk' - you
have to 'Walk the Walk'

I must say I was somewhat disappointed, after much e-mail discussion, in
what he had physically available at the time - nothing!!

I guess I'm the sort of person that if I'm expecting one thing and see very
little, I'm disappointed - I suspect your more so like that Paul.

I did however get a lot of information from Leon he is very knowledgeable on
the Rotary, but I noticed he did refer to his buddy a lot on specifics.

I guess his interest in Aviation is a good attribute, personality aside.

One thing I found unsettling was that he did very little with his own
money - his past is in car racing and I suspect was fully sponsored.

My concern is that the Aviation interest may well follow the same trend i.e.
your purchases sponsoring his development. I guess that has been done a lot
and even the Ross drive followed that trend to a degree.

Another concern was that he tended to tell one person one thing and
something completely different to another person - which prompted my concern
he was making it up as he went along and I told him as much, this of course
caused some considerable friction.

This not to say that his work is devalued because of these idiosyncracies,
his product may well be sound and as I said before any interest in Aviation
experimental development is welcome IMHO.

BTW the Fully floating PSRU shaft is designed after a car axel fully
floating assembly. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing in
Aviation use, maybe that can prompt some discussion with those who are more
knowledgable than I in this particular area. The feed back to me so far is
that it isn't the best of ideas.

George (down under)

I would need to see a drawing of the PSRU or one disassembled to comment.
The thing about Tracy is he is entirely open and anybody can looks
at the guts of his PSRU. This gives the engineers among us a warm 
fuzzy feeling :) With a last name like Crook you have to be extra careful :)


Paul Lamar
 
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