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balancing act
Here's one for the pros: I was balancing my tail rotor and had it down to
0.27 ips and still had just a touch too much weight where I had added it. So still needing to safety wire a bolt that is located in the center of the tail rotor output shaft, I chose to safety it to a hole 180 degrees from the weight. The safety wire was small, 0.025, so I didn't expect to see the ips go to zero, but I hoped they would decrease maybe to 0.20. Well it didn't. All of a sudden I had 0.9ips, so I shut down and removed the wire and ran again. This time I got 0.5 ips. The balancer reading did not even come close to repeating. The phase angle was also different. In an experiment, I would run up from idle to full chat and take 4 averaged readings, come back to idle and go up to full chat again for another 4 readings. Never repeats. Can't find anything loose in the drive or on the blades. If I pull a set of readings at 2500, 2600 and 2700, all the readings pretty much agree with the exception of ips increasing a bit with rpm. However if I take it to idle and come back up, I get a different set. Any ideas? -- Stuart Fields Experimental Helo magazine P. O. Box 1585 Inyokern, CA 93527 (760) 377-4478 ph (760) 408-9747 publication cell |
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