Actually been watching the rain come down Ben, Contact me off list. Tom On Fri 14/01/11 10:04 PM , [email protected] sent: > Except if the local agent is off racing for two weeks. > > Cheers, Ben > > > Message: 6 > Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:18:18 +1100 > From: "Tim Shirley" [email protected]>Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] > Hotellier couplings - serviceable? > To: "'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in > Australia.'"Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Then again, since the matter concerns a hotelier from a DG glider, one > couldsimply ring the local agent who in my experience is both knowledgeable > andhelpful. > > > > And thereby save all of us from reading rubbish. > > > > J > > > > Cheers > > > > Tim > > > > tra dire e fare c`? mezzo il mare > > > > From: > [email protected][[email protected]] > On Behalf Of > Roger DruceSent: Friday, 14 January 2011 21:30 > To: [email protected]: 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 > thespring 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 theoriginal 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] 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.comVersion: 10.0.1191 / Virus Database: 1435/3377 - > Release Date: 01/13/11 > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: hments/20110114/bbec29d0/attachment.html> > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected]http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > > End of Aus-soaring Digest, Vol 88, Issue 23 > ******************************************* > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] check or change subscription details, > visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > >
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