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reinkings(at)comcast.net
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Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 5:12 pm Post subject: Oil-canning

Okay, I'm a newbie but what is oil-canning?    Is it the flexing of the 

skin between the skeleton components?   The skins on my rudder all have 

some flex (give?) in them.   Is this a problem?   I'd really appreciate 

your input on this.   I always thought that the skins would have less 

flex (tightness).   I'm confused about this issue.

amyvega2005(at)earthlink.
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Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 5:22 pm Post subject: Oil-canning

oil canning is not a problem, it is when the metal at certain speeds pops in and out betweeen the support areas.  NO BIG DEAL.   WE are not building 747s.



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Joemotis(at)aol.com
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Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 6:50 pm Post subject: Oil-canning

Oil used to be sold in cans. Think a cardboard tube with punched sheet  metal ends crimped on. When the can had been punctured and drained, you could   take your finger and push on the can end and it would collapse in and make  a sound "dink".

  

 Then when you released pressure, it would pop back and make the sound  'donk'

  

 Zenith (and many other) aircraft are prone to the same thing with wing  skins etc.

  

 Yes I am old

  

 Had a Chevy truck with a can opener tied on under the hood.

  

 Joe Motis

  

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ter_turn(at)yahoo.com
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Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 7:17 pm Post subject: Oil-canning

We used to get a free can opener with every six pack of beer too!  Oh, the good old days.



do not archive!



Hope this useless info doesn't drive Larry over the brink! 



Joemotis(at)aol.com wrote:[quote]     Oil used to be sold in cans. Think a cardboard tube with punched sheet  metal ends crimped on. When the can had been punctured and drained, you could   take your finger and push on the can end and it would collapse in and make  a sound "dink".

  

 Then when you released pressure, it would pop back and make the sound  'donk'

  

 Zenith (and many other) aircraft are prone to the same thing      [quote][b]

grs-pms(at)comcast.net
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Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 7:19 pm Post subject: Oil-canning

Also, around the shop or house, light oil used to be dispensed from  a hemispheric-shaped can with a long spout and a slightly convex  bottom.  When you upended the can and pushed on the bottom it would make  that characteristic "dink" sound and a few drops of oil would be forced out the  spout.  

  

 I admit to being old, too.

  

 George

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n4546v(at)mindspring.com
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Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 7:59 pm Post subject: Oil-canning

do not archive

  

 To add to Joe's experience;

  

 Oil cans containing lubricating oil used to be made as shown in the  photo.  They had no pump.  Their bottoms were convex (bulged to the  outside).  To use, one tipped the spount to the area to be lubed, and with  your thumb in the center of the convex bottom, you pushed that metal which  flexed from convex to concave shape.  This action forced oil out the  spout.  When you released pressure with your thumb, the metal bottom  popped back to the convex shape, ready for another push.  When the can  bottom was pushed in and released in this manner, it made the "dink, donk" sound  described by Joe.  This motion of metal flexing, along with it's associated  noise, is know as "oil-canning" as it sounds like the everyday use of a old time  oil can.

  

 In the movie "The Wizard of Oz", while traveling along the Yellow Brick  Road, the charectors come upon the Tin Woodsman rusted in place.  Through  rusted jaws, he directs them to a such a oil can which they then used to lube  and free him up, with plenty of "dink,donk" sound.  Ask your Kids or  Grandkids!

  

 Time for another drink,

  

 Regards,

  

 Randy, Las Vegas

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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purplemoon99(at)bellsouth
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Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:16 pm Post subject: Oil-canning

I'am so old that I remember  when you couldn't  buy soda in a can .... Joe  N101HD                                                                                                                                         do not archive

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skyridersbn(at)yahoo.com
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Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 3:35 am Post subject: Oil-canning

Dink-Donk....Dink-Donk........

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notsew_evets(at)frontiern
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Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 7:42 am Post subject: Oil-canning

I remember when they came out with a new fangled  gadget that had a trigger looking thing that you would actually pull and the oil  would squirt out like magic but I aint never learned about english and  running sentences...

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reinkings(at)comcast.net
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Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:41 am Post subject: Oil-canning

Amen.

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