[Aus-soaring] Pumping mercury, yikes!
George Moffatt once had a system of pumping mercury in a Nimbus 3. Wouldn't want any of that liquid metal stuff going near the metal pushrods or fittings. Mecrucy does unpleasant things to aviation alloys. If he had a prang, cleaning up the liquid mercury might be fun. And isn't pumping mercury around a bit OTT anyway? See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element) ___ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
Re: [Aus-soaring] Pumping mercury, yikes!
Presumably they knew about this and had a sealed system. Anyway there'll be lots of extra mercury around with the low light(sorry, energy) light bulbs that the political cretins are foisting on us. Mike At 12:09 PM 2/04/2009, you wrote: George Moffatt once had a system of pumping mercury in a Nimbus 3. Wouldn't want any of that liquid metal stuff going near the metal pushrods or fittings. Mecrucy does unpleasant things to aviation alloys. If he had a prang, cleaning up the liquid mercury might be fun. And isn't pumping mercury around a bit OTT anyway? See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element) ___ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 Int'l + 61 429 355784 email: mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com website: www.borgeltinstruments.com ___ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
Re: [Aus-soaring] Pumping mercury, yikes!
I owned N2737F for 5 years, after the Mercury system was removed. It was VH-VJS for more than three of those years. George told me that during the first launch he did with the Mercury weight shift pump, they discovered it wasn't bolted in well enough. When the tuggie let go of the brakes on the Bird Dog - George had instructed not to do so until the engine was up to full power - there was a loud bang and the pump handle disappeared. The main wheel left the ground but the tail wheel was firmly planted. Flaps brought it back down to a suitable attitude to pull the yellow handle. The whole mechanism had shifted aft a foot and a half. Sounds like a don't try this at home story. Yes, a bit OTT. Jim --- On Wed, 4/1/09, Texler, Michael michael.tex...@health.wa.gov.au wrote: From: Texler, Michael michael.tex...@health.wa.gov.au Subject: [Aus-soaring] Pumping mercury, yikes! To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 7:09 PM George Moffatt once had a system of pumping mercury in a Nimbus 3. Wouldn't want any of that liquid metal stuff going near the metal pushrods or fittings. Mecrucy does unpleasant things to aviation alloys. If he had a prang, cleaning up the liquid mercury might be fun. And isn't pumping mercury around a bit OTT anyway? See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element) ___ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring ___ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
