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010 Head Leak - 4/9/2012 8:57 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hey guys, just a quick one for today. I noticed this morning while running my 010 that it appears to be leaking around the plug stalk in the head.

Any ways to fix this other than a new head?

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RE: 010 Head Leak - 4/9/2012 9:08 AM   
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Status: offline 		In short-NO!...........you could try 24-hr araldite and do a fillet around the stem-but you've very little working area-and you'd need to clean all traces of fuel residue off-with a strong detergent, and then use something like a dremel wire brush to clean up and abrade the bonding surface-both of them. A lot of effort with no guarantee of success. On a larger head it would be feasible-on an 010 its likely to be marginal....
And 010 heads are not in short supply.......................

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RE: 010 Head Leak - 4/9/2012 9:11 AM   
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RE: 010 Head Leak - 4/16/2012 6:32 PM   
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RE: 010 Head Leak - 4/18/2012 9:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		JB weld is hard to find here in australia, so I for that sort of stuff I use a product called DEVCON liquid steel. It's helped out with rebuilding carb mounts that have been torn out through crashes and mid airs on 40-60 sized planes.

I cleaned the area around the stem, hit it with a fine file and placed a 1mm x 1mm fillet around the stem. I found by accident that a normal glow driver will acutally almost clip onto a .010 head so as long as the top of the button is free from goop I think I might ready to go

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RE: 010 Head Leak - 4/18/2012 1:22 PM   
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Status: offline 		Don't forget that if you inadvertly ground the stem to the top of the head with a conducting material, then your plug will be shorted.


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RE: 010 Head Leak - 4/19/2012 12:40 AM   
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I didn't even think of that, thankfully though, it appears not to have shorted the plug.

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