Jim,
For a “quick and dirty” experiment
I think I’ll try putting a stainless steel pot-scrubber pad into my swirl
pot and see what it looks like after an hour of running. This is a bypass
system, so I won’t be inhibiting flow to the engine. I wish
this had come up before I first ran my engine.
Mark S.
From: Rotary motors in aircraft
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Behalf Of Mark R Steitle
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005
2:41 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Filterr
or not to Filter: [FlyRotary] Re: FW: Cooling system update
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.
Mark S.
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