Sender: <marv@lancaironline.net> (Marvin Kaye)
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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 04:09:21 -0500
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From: "texasattorney.net" <CBarber@texasattorney.net>
Subject: Aircraft oil in Rotary
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Collective,

Please help educate me.

The following statement is on Rob Johnson's web page concerning oil in fuel
vs. using the oil injection system:
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"There are two solutions. a) remove the stock oil injection system, then
watch how much fuel the lineman puts in the tank then pour in the needed
amount of clean burning two stroke oil (1 oz. of oil per gallon, easy to
figure). b) leave the stock oil injection system intact and use aircraft oil
in the crankcase. Since our high dollar aircraft engines burn copious
amounts of oil when they are in good shape, aircraft oil is formulated to
burn cleanly.

Plan B is how I intend to do it. My 172 burns a quart of oil every four
hours which, coincidentally is about an ounce per gallon, so I am use to
putting expensive oil in the plane already. Another plus is that aircraft
oil is easy to get at airports and two-stroke oil is not. (duh!)"

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I have not seen any verification via another source that this would solve
the oil issue.  It seems to my non informed mind to make sense to use the
aviation oil, but I don't know, especially since I have only seen it
referenced in this one place.

What is the rest of the story?  If I understand what I think I saw on the
net, you can now have the oil injectors fed from a separate reservoir, but
the aircraft oil in the crankcase seems viable as well.

Thoughts, comments, corrections??

Thanks.

All the best,

Chris Barber
Houston
www.LoneStarVelocity.com