Monday 1/29 I gave Ron, the machinist, the 3 rotor drawings. Saturday I
talked with him again. He is modifying the design for the tooling to
accommodate both the 2 and 3 rotor parts. I made an executive decision
that the delay was worth having a reduced set of tooling and being able
to accommodate both 2 and 3 rotor users. Especially since I have
expressions of interest from as many 20B owners as 13B.

I made a trip to Denver to get AL from ALRECO, the aluminum salvage
source. I bought $276 worth of AL. WOW the price of AL has really shot
up since the last time I bought! And these prices are heavily discounted
from your usual supply house.

Ron said he expects to make chips today, i.e., he expects to start
making piece parts. I hope we will have at least one set of complete
parts for a slide throttle. If you want to influence which one, 2 or 3
rotor, send me a refundable deposit of $100. At the present time I have
no idea what the final price will be as we are still building tooling.
That is why the deposit is refundable. Email me at ddcuster @ wmv-co.us
for instructions on how to send money.

At this point I need to start looking for a test bed. Originally I had
hoped to have my engine overhauled and a test bed constructed, but the
engine is still in the car with not much hope that it will get
overhauled any time soon as the restrictions for my hip are not due to
come off for two more weeks; and then I am not sure how much I will be
able to do as the muscles will have had 6 weeks to become soft and weak,
not that they were in that great a shape before.

So I am looking for someone to volunteer to test the throttle,
preferably someone closer to sea level than I am (8,000 MSL).
Any takers? It would be nice if the site were located in the southern
part of the US. Yuma AZ comes to mind, but there are other suitable
locations. I would plan to be in attendance for the test.

Doc Custer
Retired Software Engineer and sometime Audiologist


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