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Ken,
No, my oil cooler doesn’t have a
thermostat. My approach to controlling temps is to use cowl flaps. Hopefully,
they will work well for both water and oil. Heck, here in Texas it shouldn’t be a problem.
Mark
(installing spray bars for the Texas heat)
From: Rotary motors in
aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of kenpowell@comcast.net
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004
4:03 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Oil
cooler mount updated pictures
Looks like you guys are using either C&R or Fluidine oil
coolers. Do these units have thermostats? If not, is this a
problem? If it is a problem, what is your solution? I'm full of
questions today!
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This solves a riddle for me. I
bought a very stout oil cooler off ebay a while back for my 20B. From the
specs on the fluidyne website, it looks to be a Fluidyne model 30716. It
has a Modine sticker on the side and was represented to be a NASCAR
cooler. I had never been able to locate any oil coolers manufactured by
Modine, so I imagine it was built by Fluidyne for Modine. It has four
fittings, two on each end and is a double-pass design. There are very
fine turbulators inside the tubes. Yes, it is heavy, but very well
built.
Mark S.
From: Rotary motors in
aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of Tracy Crook
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004
12:52 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Oil
cooler mount updated pictures
-Finally, I could find another type of oil
cooler, which would be closer to the size of the evap core. In
the old archives, Mike Wills mentioned Fluidyne. I had one of their
radiators in my FD, and it was very well built. Here's a link to the oil
cooler family I'm thinking about. They look pretty good to me. What
do you think? http://www.fluidyne.com/pl_theoc.html
Rusty (waiting for a giant estimate for
replacing my dead heat pump)
Really liked the DB
30517 (3.75" thick double pass model) Will probably use this one on
my -8.
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