Jos,
The Europa Mono has the combined flap/gear lever and brake lever holes cut
in the centre tunnel and poorly fitting stainless steel plate in front of
the centre tunnel through which the smoke arrived as if a smoke grenade had
gone off.
It was indeed literally an out of the blue failure almost in to the blue as
well since I thought at one point I might have to ditch in the sea at the
Seven estuary to put the smoke/fire out!
In hindsight the "Approved" installation had the normally reliable
Nippondenser alternator sat high aft in the cowls which proved too much for
the grease in the sealed bearing.
The fact that the water cooled intake manifold sat right behind it, the
swirl pot to the side, the electronic ignition heat sink radiator plates in
front and the remote oil tank radiating oil temperature straight on the
alternator pulley bearing also in front probably caused the overheat
failure.
The installation of the dual pulley added extra overhang loads to the
bearing and the cooling fan had to be removed to fit the dual pulley!!!!!!
You see I should have been offered an interview for the PFA airworthiness
engineers job after even if only to have the pleasure of turning it down! I
have been doing it anywhere here for some time without any pay or
recognition, someone has to.
Regards
Gary McKirdy
Hope that explains it
----- Original Message -----
From: "josok" <josok-e@ukolo.fi>
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 6:38 PM
Subject: Europa-List: Flying for Fun" accident
>
> Hi Gary
>
> Sorry about your accident, from which i can't recall hearing anything.
Happy to see you survived it. There are several points in the message that i
would like to have more clarification on, forgive me for asking dumb
questions please. Started a new thread as well, to keep the subject of the
previous line clean.
> "dual drive belts as "Approved" then fill the cockpit with thick smoke
before stopping the engine"
> There is a firewall between the engine and the cockpit, how did the smoke
enter the cockpit?
> I have had one generator seizing on me, in a car, that is once in 43 years
and 2 million miles. It had been screaming for weeks before it happened, did
your generator freeze out of the blue sky?
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Jos Okhuijsen
>
>
> Visit - www.EuropaOwners.org
>
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