Recently made the switch from massives to Tempest fine wires. What maintenance are you guys doing on these - just rotating every 50 hours? With the old massives used to media blast and re-gap then rotate, but these fine wires are a lot more delicate.

I just take a piece of salty wire and clean out any lead balls (few if any) and put them on the pressure tester every 100-150 hours never rotate top to bottom.
DENNY

DENNY wrote:I just take a piece of salty wire and clean out any lead balls (few if any) and put them on the pressure tester every 100-150 hours never rotate top to bottom.
DENNY

Shhhhhh. Damn. You are not supposed to let anyone know about salty wire, I thought we had a deal.

I miss the days of Benzene. I remember pulling fouled plugs out of my 327 Chevy powered Jeep, dropping in a jar of Benzene, and watching all the gunk and carbon just melt away. And it's actually handy to be able to scratch my back with that third arm.

I know we had a deal but both of us have one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peal so we gots to let it out for the young pilots!!

Ok for us less learned, what is salty wire?

Safety wire

I actually glass bead blast mine every year. One set is 18 years old and still going strong.

What brand of plugs did u ohm them. I have some champion fine wire not to many hours look good but most have over 5000 ohms. Just changed to tempest , they are all 2500 ohms

Always check resistance whenever plugs are out, below 5000 ohms are what you want. I have never had a Tempest fail but have seen many Champion’s fail, fine wire or massive electrode. Be careful cleaning finewire plugs. Consult the Tempest website for guidance.

Kurt

Here is some good info. https://tempestplus.com/wp-content/uplo ... 081412.pdf
DENNY