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See, I knew you guys could come up with
some good ideas if I could just get you jumpstarted! :>)
From: Rotary motors in aircraft
[mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2015 1:15
PM
To: Rotary
motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Method of
adding oil to fuel
Bill,
most hobby shops sells small, battery operated pumps for refueling model
airplanes. Integrate one with a six-pack type carry-all that would hold
several quart sized bottles of 2-stroke oil. Put a compression fitting
about 8 inches up on a piece of 3/8" tube, pass through a hole drilled in
the top of one of the 2-stroke bottles, then add another compression fitting on
the other side. Then, rout the tube to the pump. Another length of
tube to carry oil to the fill port.
-Fill
the caddy with 2-stroke oil bottles, and sit on the wing next to the fill port.
-Pop
the top on a bottle, then screw on the top with the hose passing through.
-Switch
on the pump while fueling.
-Switch
the pump off when the desired amount of oil has been fed in.
-Plug
the free end of the hose that fed the fuel fill port into a blind nipple on the
side of the caddy (so stray oil doesn't drain out) and place the whole caddy in
your storage compartment.
On
Tuesday, June 2, 2015 1:58 PM, Bill Bradburry
<flyrotary@lancaironline.net> wrote:
I was thinking of
something along this line. The pump screws onto a 38MM neck which, I
think, is the size of a standard gallon bottle. They sell them for quart
and other size bottles as well. The pump delivers one ounce per squirt
and the pump can be locked down when not in use. If you attached a short
tube to the end of the outlet of the pump and had a convenient way to plug the
hose when not in use to prevent leakage…
I envision setting the
jug of oil on the wing by the fuel inlet, remove the tube seal, drop the tube
into the fuel tank, pump, pump, pump, however many squirts you needed, lock the
pump down at the end of the last pump, replace the tube seal, pump gas, go to
the other wing, repeat, set the jug back into your carrying receptacle, go fly!
It might be a good idea
to have the tube sealing cap permanently attached to the end of the tube so
that even I could not accidently drop it into the fuel tank! Or I guess
you could have a small catch bottle attached to the side of the jug to insert
the end of the tube into when not in use and not have a sealing cap for the
tube.
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