FloodSpectre
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- May 29, 2006
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No, the quartz crystals power the flux capacitors...Could the quartz be to carry a charge? People talk about quartz watches. Alternatively it may not be to do with aircraft but perhaps ground vehicles as quartz crystals would need to be close together to make sure they don't get flung around in flight on an aircraft...
I found one of these protek-plugs on the beach in Sidney,BC on the site of an old garbage dump. The site is near Victoria international airport which was used during the Second World War by the airforce. Thank you for your information. I was very curious to find out what it was.I happened on to this site when I did a Google search for Chandler-Evans corp.
I have 6 of the Protek-Plugs and I was looking for more information and a source for purchasing them.
I am a licensed airframe and powerplant mechanic and am working on a Franklin aircraft engine that was apparently overhauled in the late 1960's and has been sitting ever since.
The Protek-Plugs are Dehydrator plugs that are screwed into the spark plug ports in engines while in storage to prevent rust and corrosion. The "crystals" are silica gel which turns from blue to pink when moisture is absorbed. The pink silica gel may be re-activated by heating for 16 hours at 250 deg. F.
The old Franklin engines use 14mm spark plugs instead of the 18mm spark plugs that most aircraft engines use.
Aircraft Spruce and Specialties co, a parts supplier, carries 18mm dehydrator plugs under the designation of AN4062-1, but I need 14mm plugs to put back in this engine for storage after I get through restoring it after sitting and rusting for 40+ years.
The 14mm Protek-Plugs that were in it have turned pink and I was trying to find a source of 14mm dehydrator plugs. These are the first I have seen that had 14mm threads.
When I put Chandler-Evans into Google, this web site was the first to come up and since no one had really answered the question, I just thought I would.