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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!
Thanks, Ken Powell
Ken;
My cooler is a custom unit built by Griffin.
I was working with Fluidyne on a custom unit when they stopped doing custom
designs. They have some very good units, but none with the capacity and
configuration that I was looking for.
I don’t have a thermostat in my
system; but I recognize the possibility of adding one later. It makes
very little difference on warmup, because that is happening on the ground where
there is very little cooling air flow anyway (in my pusher setup). I’d
anticipate that the principal issue will be on long descents, especially in
cold weather; so I’ll wait and see when I get there. If I see oil
temps getting much below about 140 in any flight conditions, it will get my
attention.
Al
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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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