"Badwater Bill" wrote in message
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On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 02:09:30 GMT, "Juan E Jimenez"
wrote:

Really? Got emails? I'll gladly exchange them so we can find out
who is
telling the truth. I'll be waiting, but not holding my breath.


Yeah, don't hold your breath. Old Walt here will tell you about
all
the days he spent flying C-130's with Air America....wonder how
much

the rotor blades to autorotation speed. I used to have to do that
by
hand, now it just drains one motorcycle battery completely to do
it.
I spun it up today in fact. Then I stopped it and tried to spin it
up
again (in zero wind conditions). Didn't work. The Voltage on the
battery was down to 4 Volts during the second spin up.


There is a device that uses a ring gear like you have, however
instead of a starter moter it uses a flexable shaft with a rubber
wheel on the end that's pulled into engagement with a wheel mounted
just inboard of the prop. A lever on the joystick worked through a
bowden cable pulls the rubber wheel onto the other wheel when you
want to run-up the rotor. The whole rig weighs only 14#, lighter than
a starter and battery and available any time. There's a bendix at the
top of the flexable shaft to engage with the ring gear.
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Cheers,
Jonathan Lowe
modelflyer at antispam dot net

Antispam trap in place



Damn!

All I need is a bigger and heavier battery, but that means I have
to
lose about another 10 pounds off my big fat gut to compensate for
it.

What the ****... OVER.

Just have to bite the big one and stop eating pizza and drinking
Newcastle beer.

BWB