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Yep larry they are their... yep they do leak.. yep they need servicing and if they are on the plane.. well at annual you have to spend the money to fix em so they will work... none of this well I never have used it before... thing... smile...

But,.... you notice that Bob doesn't have them on his.. nor did they put the things on later years... that and along with the engine primers that you pull and push... pilots came up with a better way... don't they always...

Them old dogs were redunduncy factors... today... if you feather a engine.. you should have know why.. and wouldn't have if it were not necessary... so why are you going to unfeather one...Hmmm.... but, lets just say you made a mistake...(smile) and did it... well without the eletrical system you could move the prop control and the blades would start to move .. the air would catch them and they would start to turn the crank... least that is the idea... but, in fact you can have it un-feather and not crank the engine over.. they will just stall and nothing happens except for the drag...

So the better way... well if you feathered it ... again by mistake (smile)... and you didn't have the heavy payload crimping weight taxing accumulators... what would you do.. well you would just touch the starter ... and it would spin the engine... either starting it or with the prop control in the fwd positon.. it would make enough oil pressure to delatch the pins in the prop from spinning it... and the blades would by spring pressure return to their flat pitch and spin the engine just like the acculumators did... ahhhhh... yes it does work.. check out the later POH's.. for their proper unfeathering proceedure... smile...

How much do the OLD accumulators weigh... well if you had two of them on a scale they would equal one suitcase full of cloths... ya they are heavy... and just think you are hauling them all over the sky with you... huh.... when your wife needs that extra suitcase for the trinkits and bootie she wants to bring to the meeting...
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Oh and the engine primers.. they were done away with by using the boost pump... smile.. another good item to put on a skymaster... especially when the battery is dead... and your going to try and hand prop that 210 hp 6 cyc engine.... ahhhhh don't think so... the last guy to try it ... isn't a guy anymore... we now call him fill.... If the battery is dead... go get a mechanic because you don't want to get up in the air anyway.... this ain't no piper cub or champ.... If you try and hand prop it... it will (notice I didn't give any room here) reach out and bite the hand off that feeds it... smile...

Check with the local prop shop... do a 337 and cap the outlet off... remove and adjust for the great weight savings... and put the new page in the POH from a later manual... on how to un-feather the engine you didn't want to but, accidently featherd when you didn't want to intentionally feather it in the first place but, that damm instructor made you do it... is a good answer/ saying... we now live better thru electricity.... smile...

(P.S. hope kathern is better now... sorry to hear that she is going to see the doctor).... still looking for her reply...smile...