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13 Aug 2025 01:01 - 13 Aug 2025 01:12 #1 by Brooks McNew
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Part 91? (Hippie voiceover)TBO is a state of mind, man.

The C-75/C-85 TCDS does not specify the tach harmonization RPM (where tach and hobbs would be equal) so I believe you're supposed to use a tachometer rated per factory original and/or rated at "max recommended cruise" but that's based on some secondhand knowledge.

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10 Aug 2025 13:39 #2 by Larry Snyder
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I thought of this because my tach shows I’m 80 hours past TBO but if you apply the 1:1.05 differential I’m still under TBO!!

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10 Aug 2025 12:16 #3 by Frank Hamelly
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That’s one of the best questions I have ever seen posted that I have NO CLUE as to what the answer is! Mike

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09 Aug 2025 15:35 #4 by Larry Snyder
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I asked Grok. The answer was an airplane flying at 2400 rpm with a C-85 engine and a C-75 tach could record 1.05 hours for each engine hour.

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09 Aug 2025 15:22 #5 by Larry Snyder
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This one has got me. My airplane had a C-75 when I bought it. A couple years later I had it upgraded to a C-85. Nothing was done to the tach. 

The hours displayed on the tach are calculated by the number of turns on the engine referenced to its typical rpm at cruise. Redline on a 75 is 2275 and redline on an 85 is 2575. So I am assuming that the hours on my tach are higher than they should be, since I’ve been cruising at 2400 rpm, 125 rpm above C-75 redline?

is there a different tach for each small continental?

Am I even on the right track here?

 

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