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DAquaNut(at)aol.com
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Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 11:40 am Post subject: CHT Probe-Atachment

List,

  

     Has anyone figured out a way to keep from ruining the  CHT attachment ring under the sparkplug? Mine broke and I would like to  keep from replacing it again if at all possible. Any trick to it?

  

  

             Ed  Diebel       FF 62

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lucien

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Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 11:52 am Post subject: Re: CHT Probe-Atachment

[quote="DAquaNut(at)aol.com"]List,

  

     Has anyone figured out a way to keep from ruining the  CHT attachment ring under the sparkplug? Mine broke and I would like to  keep from replacing it again if at all possible. Any trick to it?

  

  

             Ed  Diebel       FF 62

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Form the CHT sender around a spark plug and the socket before installing the plug into the engine. 

Put the plug in the socket and then place the sender ring over it and bend the sender around that by hand.



Then when you actually install the plug, it's already pre bent and shaped. You don't crunch up the sender as you force the socket over the works and crank the plug down..... 



I spent a whole bunch of money on senders before someone told me about that trick. Helped a bunch....



LS

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Dana

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Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 12:42 pm Post subject: CHT Probe-Atachment

At 03:52 PM 4/19/2009, lucien wrote:



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		  Form the CHT sender around a spark plug and the socket before installing 

the plug into the engine.

Put the plug in the socket and then place the sender ring over it and bend 

the sender around that by hand.



Then when you actually install the plug, it's already pre bent and shaped...


	


Also, secure the wire to the engine at some point so the engine's motion on 

the vibration mounts isn't flexing the wire where it attaches to the 

ring.  I slip the wire through a short length of fuel tubing, then tie wrap 

that to a point on the muffler mount bracket.  Wind some of the section 

beyond that around something round, I used some 1/2" rod, to form it into a 

coil (then remove the rod, of course), then attach it beyond the coil to 

the aircraft frame.  The coil allows for more flex as the engine moves.



If it's a simple self powered CHT gauge and not a fancy EIS sender, and if 

it's just the wire that's broken right at the terminal (usually is, since 

one of the wires is iron which is quite brittle), it's easy to fix instead 

of replacing it.  Pry open the crimp on the terminal, remove the broken 

part, then strip some insulation from the remaining wire, and tightly twist 

them together before crimping it back into the terminal.  The sender is a 

simple thermocouple that generates a voltage by heating the connection 

between the two different wires.



-Dana

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HShack(at)aol.com
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Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 2:04 pm Post subject: CHT Probe-Atachment

Get an 8mm ring & put it [them] under a head bolt;  reads some  lower but it will do the job.

  

 Howard  Shackleford

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  In a message dated 4/19/2009 3:41:08 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  DAquaNut(at)aol.com writes:

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		     Has anyone figured out a way to keep from ruining the CHT attachment ring    under the sparkplug? Mine broke and I would like to keep from replacing    it again if at all possible. Any trick to it?

    

    

               Ed    Diebel       FF  62

	




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