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Report by Armstrong Siddeley Motors Mech Engineering Department: Preliminary investigations...

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PA1716/5/5/42
Title
Report by Armstrong Siddeley Motors Mech Engineering Department: Preliminary investigations of vibration characteristics and suitability of Python rear propeller internal gear design SJ.47564
Date
12 August 1950
Description

Consequent upon recent failures of SJ.8023 Python rear propeller internal gears, see MED report No T.366 (PA1716/5/5/40) and the detection of large stresses in an internal gear during strain gauge investigation on ASP.104/60, See report T.368 (PA1716/5/5/41), a new gear (SJ.47564) with stiffened annulus and improved tooth form has been made. Strain gauge tests under engine operating conditions are also to be carried out on this new gear

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Coventry Archives & Research Centre
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ASM Python/prop gear failure
Language
English
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Report by Armstrong Siddeley Motors Mech Engineering Department: Preliminary investigations of vibration characteristics and suitability of Python rear propeller internal gear design SJ.47564