Slide Throttle Stuck

-----Original Message-----
From: Rotary Engine [mailto:rotaryeng@earthlink.net]
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 11:14 AM
To: AA-me
Subject: Slide Throttle Stuck

> > Hi Paul-
> >
> > Got the entire intake side mounted today -- look *great*.
> >
> > Problem: The slide throttle doesn't slide when the bolts are
> torqued
> > down. This is the same behavior I saw when we first got the slide
> > throttle from you; it wouldn't slide then either until I loosened
> the
> > bolts holding it together. My hypothesis is that the Teflon
insert
> is
> > a
> > bit too thick for the spacer. I suppose I could try to take some
> > thickness off the Teflon. Or, I could fab a gasket of some type to
> > increase the thickness of the spacer.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > Did you put the gaskets in there? I sent some proper gasket
> > material. You may have thought it was packing material.
> > They needed to be cut out of the enclosed material.
> > One on each side of the spacer.
> >
> > ----------------------------------------
> >
> > This is the stuff I sent Mark.
> > 1/64" thick is .016 thick which should be plenty to space
> > the plates out far enough for the Teflon to slide.
> > http://www.mcmaster.com/
> >
> > Search McMaster by the part number 9556K61 as there are a bunch
> > of gasketing materials.
> >
> > Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
>
> Paul,
> The image you sent with this message is corrupt on my end.
>
> Russell Kent
>
> Looked OK when I got it back. I also just loaded it into
> xpaint and xv and both worked fine. It was a screen capture
> so it was truncated at the bottom. Here it is again.
>
> Paul Lamar

No attachment with this message.

Russell Kent

Ops your right. I forgot to attach it again.

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

Paul,
That image ( 1-64th-sheet-gasket.jpg ) is *NOT* a JPEG file. It is
another image format called Portable Network Graphics and should have an
extension of *.png. When fed to IE6 or MS-Pain(t) (and other products),
the PNG file is shown as a mostly black screen with some hash thrown in.
When renamed to 1-64th-sheet-gasket.png, IE6 renders it correctly.

By the way, FireFox seems to determine that the file is a PNG and not a
JPEG as the extension indicates.

Russell Kent

OK I stand corrected. I'll name screen captures .PNG from now on.
Linux xv, xpaint, Firefox and Thunderbird don't care. They still handle
it fine.

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

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