Return-Path: Received: from [129.116.87.170] (HELO MAIL01.austin.utexas.edu) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c2) with ESMTP id 763330 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 15:42:14 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=129.116.87.170; envelope-from=mark.steitle@austin.utexas.edu X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C51DD5.E0ACE621" Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re: Filterr or not to Filter: [FlyRotary] Re: FW: Cooling system update Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:41:28 -0600 Message-ID: <87DBA06C9A5CB84B80439BA09D86E69EC07FE5@MAIL01.austin.utexas.edu> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [FlyRotary] Re: Filterr or not to Filter: [FlyRotary] Re: FW: Cooling system update Thread-Index: AcUdzLuUbxVMt0TmTgSeswI6LzFp0gAB/heA From: "Mark R Steitle" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C51DD5.E0ACE621 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ed, I'm with Tracy (use high quality glycol & distilled water), except for some possible RTV that might break free and get stuck in one or more of the radiator tubes. Seems a good backflush would remedy that. Next time I have my cooling system apart I might take a peek inside the radiator and see if there is anything blocking the tubes. Corrective action would depend on what I find. It wouldn't take very many blocked tubes to push some of us over the edge. =20 =20 Mark S.=20 =20 Perhaps we could fashion a quickly removable filter and patch it into various systems for a while just to check what it picks up. Like, I wouldn't have thought it possible to block up a whole damned radiator ... Jim S. =20 Ed A =20 =20 =20 =20 >> Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ >> Archive: http://lancaironline.net/lists/flyrotary/List.html ------_=_NextPart_001_01C51DD5.E0ACE621 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Ed,

<= pre>I’m with Tracy (use high = quality glycol & distilled water), except for some possible RTV that = might break free and get stuck in one or more of the radiator = tubes. Seems a good backflush would remedy that. Next time I = have my cooling system apart I might take a peek inside the radiator and = see if there is anything blocking the tubes. Corrective action = would depend on what I find. It wouldn’t take very many = blocked tubes to push some of us over the edge. =

Mark S. =

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Perhaps we could fashion a = quickly removable filter and patch it into various systems for a while just to = check what it picks up.
Like, I wouldn't have thought it possible to block up a whole damned = radiator ... Jim S.

Ed A

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