kheindl(at)msn.com
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 Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 4:33 pm Post subject: Melted silencer |
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Hi Ron,
The picture would be a problem. Th exhaust is installed now, and the damage
is almost impossible to see because there is very little clearance. One can
see the damage to the aluminum duct. The affected area must have vaporized,
as there is now an indentation. On the underside there are pinhead size
blisters, but it didn't burn right through.
I am quite sure now that this was caused by electrical discharge(s). The
duct with the radiators is completely isolated from the engine and is
probably acting as a giant capacitor, which then discharges to the nearest
metal object above. What causes the buildup of static ? I guess I will
never know. This is potentially very dangerous, and if it happened to me, it
could happen to anyone else. Someone from the factory should take
aninterest in this.
The best I can do is run a wire between duct and engine to eliminate any
static discharges.
Regards,
Karl
[quote]From: "Ronald Parigoris" <rparigor(at)hotmail.com>
To: kheindl(at)msn.com
Subject: RE: Lost message
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 18:13:18 -0400
Hello Karl
If you can, I would like to see a picture. On teflon hoses, static created
from liquid would damage the hose:
http://www.sacskyranch.com/statichose.htm
I know that airplanes with rubber boots on the lead edge of the wing can
get full of pinholes from static discharge.
I set up to fly my hot air balloon once, and was close enough to the guy
next to me that our balloons were rubbing back and fourth that has happened
many times before. This time the thermocouple wire that runs from the top
of the balloon to the basket was close to the contact areas of the
balloons. Static jumped onto the wires, and was discharging to a fuel tank
not too far from the wires in the basket!
You have exhause running through the exhaust, not beyond the realm of
possability that the exhaust is poorly grounded and seeking ground at that
point? I don't have a good picture, but air flowing and charging something
could cause static as well.
Try to change nothing, go flying and see if you can measure any voltage
potential between the 2 parts.
Is it possable that somehow the ignition is not well grounded to the motor,
and jumping to ground here? I had a Kawasaki F5 and F9 that used electronic
ignition and surface gap plugs. The surface gap plugs had a gap in the
porecelin to allow no leakage from tip. What I am getting at is if ignition
is finding ground where you are having problem??
Please let me know resolve.
Sincerely
Ron Parigoris
>From: "Karl Heindl" <kheindl(at)msn.com>
>To: rparigor(at)hotmail.com
>Subject: RE: Lost message
>Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 20:57:06 +0100
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>>From: "Karl Heindl" <kheindl(at)msn.com>
>>To: rparigor(at)suffolk.lib.ny.us
>>Subject: Re: Melting silencer
>>Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 01:48:59 +0100
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>>
>>
>>Hi Ron,
>>
>>Thank you for your interest. Unfortunately no pictures but it is a
>>standard XS fwf installation (not 914).
>>The vertical distance between silencer and duct is about 10mm. Very
>>difficult to see when everything is installed. If I hadn't seen it with
>>my own eyes I wouldn't have believed it. I can only think of electricity
>>causing that intense localized heat. Of course I don't know when it
>>happened or whether it is happening all the time. I won't be able to fire
>>up my engine for another 2 weeks.
>>I am taking a wild guess that if I connect a ground wire to the duct it
>>will fix the problem.
>>There must be someone out there who can explain this phenomenon.
>>
>>Karl
>>
>>>From: <rparigor(at)suffolk.lib.ny.us>
>>>To: "Karl Heindl" <kheindl(at)msn.com>
>>>Subject: Re: Melting silencer
>>>Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 23:20:04 -0000
>>>
>>>Hello Karl
>>>
>>>Do you by chance have any pictures of overall location and close up of
>>>damage?
>>>
>>>Ron Parigoris
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On Mon, May 7, 2007, Karl Heindl <kheindl(at)msn.com> said:
>>>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > No, it was a little forward of that. Think of the temperatures. What
>>>is
>>> > stainless steel melting point ?
>>> > And if the heat came from the inside, why is not burned right through
>>>?
>>> >
>>> > Karl
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >>From: "Duncan & Ami McFadyean" <ami(at)mcfadyean.freeserve.co.uk>
>>> >>Reply-To: europa-list(at)matronics.com
>>> >>To: <europa-list(at)matronics.com>
>>> >>Subject: Re: Melting silencer
>>> >>Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 20:52:44 +0100
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >><ami(at)mcfadyean.freeserve.co.uk>
>>> >>
>>> >>Was the "heat-stressing" opposite where one of the header pipes goes
>>>in to
>>> >>the silencer i.e. where hot gases directly from the end of the header
>>>pipe
>>> >>would impinge internally?
>>> >>
>>> >>Duncan McF.
>>> >>---
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