Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #18158
From: Jim Sower <canarder@frontiernet.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Filterr or not to Filter: [FlyRotary] Re: FW: Cooling system update
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:59:11 -0600
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
That should work. All this scale and crap is a whole new issue I hadn't thought about until now.
I'll bet my core will need some SERIOUS cleaning out to feel safe around this ... Jim S.

Mark R Steitle wrote:

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.

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*From:* Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] *On 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



 



 

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