The first time I fired my engine with a prop on it, it ran for about
30 seconds before the prop started free wheeling.  I pulled apart the
redrive and found the damper plate was toast.  From the pictures you
can see that the part that broke seems way too light to carry 100 hp
and I was no where close to that.  I've made a solid replacement
disc, just have to get it welded, for a replacement.  Guess I'll rely
on the belt for any dampening.

Randy

Thanks for the heads up and pictures Randy. We have seen this happen
with the spring type in a 2 rotor as well although several have
survived over the years as Ross used them.

The 3rd from last picture is the 2 rotor broken spring type.

However the one rotor torque pulse is severe. It is like a one
cylinder two cycle or a two cylinder four cycle piston engine. One
huge torque pulse per revolution.

Paul Lamar


Paul,

I just took a look at all my stored emails generated by you at the
website, I have 3,601 in my files, starting 8/9/11.  Just curious
how many do you have and what was first date your emails began ???

What a body of works...

George F. Curtis Jr.

Thanks George.

We started about April 1998 as I recall.

My guess is well over 100,000.  How many days in 16 years. On average
50 emails a day.

The entire news letter, pictures and all email, take up 500 GIG.

Without Linux I could not handle it. I use 36 virtual desktops. The
Linux command search engine called "locate" finds files in
milliseconds. The OS is Mint with Mate and I love it. Any version of
windows is garbage by comparison :). Now fourth most popular
operating system in the world.

Paul Lamar


It's actually the first most popular OS in the world by far if you count
all the server systems and all the embedded systems.  The internet would
be a very different place if it weren't for Linux systems. Surprisingly
most people have never heard of it.

 Mark LaPierre

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