On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:25 AM, James F Juhas <james.f.juhas@snet.net> wrote:
> That is exactly what I would do, and indeed, what I was going to do when
> my MGA fan lost a blade through my left fender well at 6,000 rpm on the
> Lightening course at NJMP. Notwithstanding the fact that I picked up
> considerable horsepower after I took the fan off, I doubted the wisdom
> of making the repair after taking a close look at it. Besides the blade
> that broke off, another had a partial crack and would have been next to
> go. And this was in September, after a close inspection of the fan in
> August revealed no likely defects. The moral is to be wary of
> 50-year-old steel.
will magnafluxing or the like detect cracks that aren't yet at the surface?
--
David Scheidt
dmscheidt@gmail.com
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