Then again, since the matter concerns a hotelier from a DG glider, one could simply ring the local agent who in my experience is both knowledgeable and helpful.
And thereby save all of us from reading rubbish. J Cheers Tim tra dire e fare c`รจ mezzo il mare From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roger Druce Sent: Friday, 14 January 2011 21:30 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Hotellier couplings - serviceable? Dear D I think you are introducing more confusion than enlightenment in your email. Much as I would like to, regrettably I don't have time this evening to try and straighten the matter out and I don't have time to research it further. For example. By the term 'lock' what do you mean? Do you mean the holding of the assembled parts into a functional unit, which is what the spring roll pins do, or lock in the sense of retaining the coupling to the ball, which is what the sping loaded (biased) wedge does in combination with the safety clip or equivalent? Etc etc. Sorry for sounding narked but this is what happens when the weather is crap and one has not had a decent fix of gliding in the last two months! Roger Druce On 14/01/2011 3:43 PM, DMcD wrote: >> DG also mentioned that new couplings are not of the same standard as the original ones. > There are some notes from DG about L'Hotellier couplings (01/89 and > Nov 30th 1992), which refer to the using spring pins and then the > certification of sleeves to lock the coupling instead of the spring > pins. > > I'm not old enough to know, but it would appear that in about 1/86, > the spring pins appeared and perhaps spring pins were not used on > L'Hotelliers before then. > > The note about sleeves is from 1992 and appears to allow sleeves > instead of the pins but also says "the sleeves should be replaced > every two years to provide adequate clamping force." > > It may be the DG are referring to these different types. > > D > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _____ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1191 / Virus Database: 1435/3377 - Release Date: 01/13/11
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