Degaussing a Warrior

Hi Dave!

Your assessment is correct... It was very busy here at YFC,
many diversions to Fredericton and Moncton.

Moncton actually tried to capitalize on it, but the people
here at YFC just tried to help out...

We get a lot of diversions here from HFX and Moncton
anyway, and from Saint John.

Of all these airports, YFC is the only "inland" one...so this
situation is normal, the weather here in Fredericton is usually just
better..

Sorry your trip was cut short...bummer! I have following your
thread with "Warrior" interest.

Ours is a '77 151.. new to us in Aug. Just "learning" our
"new" plane!

Discovered a phone plug in the map pocket 2 weeks ago, with
wire attached!

Previous owner(s) never mentioned it, no documentation. Asked
them..."Thats your audio input to the intercom"

ALRRIGGGHT! Fired up a $49 mp3 player, plugged in the wire and
volia!

last weekend to HFX, 6500 ft over the Bay of fundy, smooooth
air, sun is shining, the Lyc is purring,crew & pax tuning everything
from Meatloaf to Enya.....

Hard to get it any better than that!

(Hope Jay reads this! ) hehe...

Hope you Warrior gets better soon!

Dave

On 6 Nov 2005 05:20:00 -0800, "DavidM"
wrote:

Dave wrote:

We fly a Warrior (151) out of Fredericton, - was in HFX
last weekend..

I'm based at Ottawa (CYOW), but stopped at Moncton, Port Hawkesbury,
Halifax, and Fredericton as part of a family trip to Cape Breton in
summer 2004 -- it's a beautiful area for flying, especially around the
Bay of Fundy and along the Northumberland Strait. I'd strongly
recommend that any U.S. pilots in New England reading this make the
short flight up there.

This summer, because of the lightning strike, we ended up cancelling
our trip to the Gaspe, along with a few other planned trips.

You guys must have had quite a time early in the summer with all the
problems at Halifax airport. Did you see a lot of diversions into
Fredericton?


All the best,


David

"soxinbox" wrote in message
.. .
It doesn't matter how intense the strike was. The metal can only hold a
certain magnetic flux. If you exceed the metals maximum flux then the
degausser will work. The TV degausser was designed to degause iron and
steel, and so it can exceed the maximum magnetic flux of steel. It should
work fine. You can also use an AC motor as a degausser, and a small
compass as a field detector.
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I'm really curious. How does one go about using "an AC motor as a
degausser"? Not doubting - would like to know something about the technique
for doing that.

DL

An AC motor works by rotating an AC magnetic field around a rotor, thus any
AC motor is generating an AC magnetic field. You can use it to degauss
something by placing the energized motor close to the object and slowly
pulling the motor away. Basically this is how all degaussing equipment
works, only some equipment decreases the field electronically, and some
decreases the field by increasing the distance from the object.

"DL" wrote in message
k.net...
"soxinbox" wrote in message
.. .
It doesn't matter how intense the strike was. The metal can only hold a
certain magnetic flux. If you exceed the metals maximum flux then the
degausser will work. The TV degausser was designed to degause iron and
steel, and so it can exceed the maximum magnetic flux of steel. It should
work fine. You can also use an AC motor as a degausser, and a small
compass as a field detector.
- snip -

I'm really curious. How does one go about using "an AC motor as a
degausser"? Not doubting - would like to know something about the
technique for doing that.

DL