X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from imf16aec.mail.bellsouth.net ([205.152.59.64] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.6) with ESMTP id 925548 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:45:53 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=205.152.59.64; envelope-from=ceengland@bellsouth.net Received: from ibm56aec.bellsouth.net ([209.215.60.215]) by imf16aec.mail.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20060113184509.QBSD29690.imf16aec.mail.bellsouth.net@ibm56aec.bellsouth.net> for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:45:09 -0500 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (really [209.215.60.215]) by ibm56aec.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20060113184508.GZUH1137.ibm56aec.bellsouth.net@[127.0.0.1]> for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:45:08 -0500 Message-ID: <43C7F530.3060801@bellsouth.net> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:45:04 -0600 From: Charlie England User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: engine not starting - spark plugs References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit William Eslick wrote: >Ken, >I may have mentioned this at Charlie's fly-in, but here is another method. SOMEONE, (forgive me if it was on this list) suggested that I try Hobb's #9 gun cleaner from Walmart. Just soak the plug ends for a couple of hours, and the lead melts off. No need to blast with beads and rough up the insulator. The stuff only costs a couple of bucks. I have no hard data yet, but have cleaned some old plugs to try. > >Bill Eslick >RV-6, 1988 13B, 340 Hrs. >www.weslick.com/RV6index.htm > I'm at home (sick) & cleaning up my inbox. Bill, did you ever try the plugs cleaned with Hobbs #9? If it works I might try it on a/c plugs. Thanks, Charlie