X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from fed1rmmtao09.cox.net ([68.230.241.30] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTP id 1122441 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sun, 21 May 2006 15:37:01 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=68.230.241.30; envelope-from=dale.r@cox.net Received: from [192.168.1.103] (really [68.2.139.17]) by fed1rmmtao09.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20060521193616.CNHA24290.fed1rmmtao09.cox.net@[192.168.1.103]> for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 15:36:16 -0400 Message-ID: <4470C0F4.2070800@cox.net> Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 12:35:16 -0700 From: Dale Rogers Reply-To: dale.r@cox.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Questions from a potential rotaryphile References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ed Anderson wrote:
Clearly a person who has "heard" things about the rotary, but does not know anything about them.

   Indeed.

   Rich was quoting Al Wick, from  5/20 posting on the COZY_builders
mail list, "COZY: Fuel issues with auto conversions".

   A *little* knowledge is a dangerous thing.


 
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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 7:48 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Questions from a potential rotaryphile

 
In a different forum, not related specifically to engines, the following was stated,
 
"...Rotary is different issue. Their unusual combustion chamber requires them
to mix 2 cycle oil with each tank. If they don't their compression seals
die prematurely. Just like your boat motor mix, I don't see it as a big
deal. In addition, if they use aviation fuel, they develop power drop on
departure and have to replace all their plugs before next flight. This
happens every 20 hours. They don't have solution for this."

What is the experience that you are having? Is there any truth to this. If not true, where might this info have come from??
 
thanks,
Rich