I've just run the engine for almost a full hour over
the last 2 weeks. This is the first time its been run
for well over a year.
I have not done anything special to the engine while
it waits for the rest of the airplane to be completed.
Every once in a while I do turn it over a few times by
hand with the prop just to assure that it has not
seized. Besides my garage is quite dry most of the
time. I suppose the question for the experts is, "Is a
rotary engine as susceptible to internal corrosion as
a piston engine"? My guess would be yes, since 4 of
the 6 combustion chambers are open to atmosphere at
any given time.
Jim Maher
--- Original Message ---
From: Ernest Christley <echristley@nc.rr.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft"
<flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: N993FL (RV-3) Data collection


>Jim, you had your engine running quite a while ago.  
What do you do to
>keep it fresh while you build your airplane around
it?  It would seem
>that you would want to run it regularly, but not
running it enough would
>be worse than not running at all.  Did you just 're-
pickle' it?
>
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