I can understand being upset... but that was kinda harsh to send something like that to the group!..
Ouch! -Jeff Wilder CISSP,CCE,C/EH -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GIT/CM/CS/O d- s:+ a C+++ UH++ P L++ E- w-- N+++ o-- K- w O- M-- V-- PS+ PE- Y++ PGP++ t+ 5- X-- R* tv b++ DI++ D++ G e* h--- r- y+++* ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ >From: Scott Cable <s2cab...@yahoo.com> >Reply-To: KRnet <kr...@mylist.net> >To: kr...@mylist.net >Subject: KR> Warp Drive Prop >Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:08:04 -0800 (PST) >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Received: from lizard.esosoft.net ([38.118.200.18]) by mc11-f13.hotmail.com >with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:08:28 -0800 >Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lizard.esosoft.net)by >lizard.esosoft.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43)id 1EhUV4-0009c5-PB; Wed, 30 Nov >2005 08:08:06 -0800 >Received: from web53012.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.49.42])by >lizard.esosoft.net with smtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EhUV3-0009c0-Rsfor >kr...@mylist.net; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:08:06 -0800 >Received: (qmail 52100 invoked by uid 60001); 30 Nov 2005 16:08:05 -0000 >Received: from [63.241.174.129] by web53012.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP;Wed, 30 >Nov 2005 08:08:04 PST >X-Message-Info: loPmDlX8Lgd0WylChiDpvUY+FA3sd9gfLInislYAQqw= >DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; >d=yahoo.com;h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding;b=p7Ea9uMzbMzatG4tuiW1aiJFkqWEN6NnJAdittnz1/JXABvz8nVzifB3KcGTv2w8uASskV6xJITwVhjpvSA+Ao0dYaKWhSSgtrCs+Ms7+TWgHmn89S7Ei/kJW+yPF9MiOBD2qIGUCi2qWXMX5SSmKqw1Aw4v3MfhrzjLZKFe6ak=; > >X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.4 >X-BeenThere: kr...@mylist.net >X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 >Precedence: list >List-Id: KRnet <krnet.mylist.net> >List-Unsubscribe: ><http://mylist.net/listinfo/krnet>,<mailto:krnet-requ...@mylist.net?subject=unsubscribe> >List-Archive: <http://mylist.net/private/krnet> >List-Post: <mailto:kr...@mylist.net> >List-Help: <mailto:krnet-requ...@mylist.net?subject=help> >List-Subscribe: ><http://mylist.net/listinfo/krnet>,<mailto:krnet-requ...@mylist.net?subject=subscribe> >Errors-To: krnet-boun...@mylist.net >Return-Path: krnet-boun...@mylist.net >X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Nov 2005 16:08:29.0974 (UTC) >FILETIME=[4DEF9B60:01C5F5C8] > >Mark Jones, > Since I haven't heard anything further about my Warp Drive Prop, I >thought that I would write you to give you the opportunity to make things >right. > Prior to shipping you my prop for use in the KR prop bank, I had >replaced all of the hardware. I had the propeller hub and spinner bulkhead >Dye Penetrant inspected by a friend at work (I was working for a little >aircraft company called Boeing), to insure serviceablity of the prop for >aircraft use. > Never mind the fact that the prop had been removed from a corvair >powered soneri that had been flying with no issues...Yet,You reported a >vibration from it, which you blamed on a balance issue. What is suspect is >the manner in which you mounted my prop to your airplane. I had supplied >you Warp Drive's website in numerous emails, yet the prop was way >over-torqued. I also suspect that when you assembled the prop and hub, you >didn't bother assembling the proper blade into the correct location and or >re-index the prop hub halves. Can you not follow simple instructions? > > This is the condition that I recieved my prop back in: > The bolts are stripped from obviously being way over-torqued. > Missing bolts and nuts. > The bolt heads have been stripped from the use of pliers. > The prop hub has eyebrow inclusions on it where the prop attach bolts >were over-torqued. > The propeller hub has nicks / gouges on it. > The spinner bulkhead has knife edge burrs in all of the attachment >holes. > I know the burrs were not there when I sent it to you as I had the >prop hub and spinner bulkhead Dye Penetrant inspected and all of the holes >were de-burred /chamfered. > > This is what needs to be done: > Replace the stripped / missing hardware. Contact Warp Drive for the >replacement hardware kit. > Reimburse me the expenses required to bring the propeller hub back to >serviceable condition. I'm going to need to send the hub back to Warp >Drive to have it inspected, refaced or replaced. > Replace the Spinner bulkhead. The bulkhead is now un-serviceable >because in order to remove the knife edge burrs, the holes will get >elongated and will cause the spinner to wobble, vibrate and fail. > > Please reference the email below that I recieved from Mark Langford >prior to shipping me back my prop. > >Mark Langford <n5...@hiwaay.net> wrote: > From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> >To: <s2cab...@yahoo.com> >Subject: Re: Warp Drive Prop >Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:40:27 -0500 > > > Scott, I'll ship your prop back tomorrow. I never got a chance to >test it using the vibration data logger due to time constraints, and never >mounted it to the plane or did anything else with it since I brought it >home from Jone's house. I took it apart to ship it tonight and two of the >nuts were stripped due to over torquing. They were low height shear nuts, >and over torqued by at least a factor of two, so that's not surprising. >Jones reported a vibration from it, and that may have been why. I couldn't >get the nuts off without drilling the end of the bolt/nut out, but that >eventually worked without damaging the hub. I'd have put some new full >height nuts in the box but my nut box is at the airport so I had to leave >them out. > >Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama > > > >Scott Cable >Jamestown, ND >s2cab...@yahoo.com > >--------------------------------- > Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. >_______________________________________ >Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp >to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net >please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html