Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #24031
From: Echo Lake Fishing Resort (Georges Boucher) <echolakeresort@telus.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: engine not starting - spark plugs
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 22:34:19 -0700 (Pacific Standard Time)
To: <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
 It's worth a try, anything that will dissolve the carbon and dries without a film that can electricity should work.
Georges B. (Rusty I was only kidding)
 
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Date: 06/16/05 22:26:01
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: engine not starting - spark plugs
 
Sounds like MEK might work just as well (or better - it's a pretty
serious solvent).
Shutting down with fuel v. ignition can't hurt ... Jim S.
 
Echo Lake Fishing Resort (Georges Boucher) wrote:
 
> Dale
> Senior's moment, the gun wash I'm talking about is used in body shops
> to clean paint guns.
> Georges B.
>
> /-------Original Message-------/
>
> /*From:*/ Rotary motors in aircraft <mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
> /*Date:*/ 06/16/05 14:41:51
> /*To:*/ Rotary motors in aircraft <mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
> /*Subject:*/ [FlyRotary] Re: engine not starting - spark plugs
>
> Georges,
>
>    I have to think on that one a bit.  Hoppe's Bore Cleaner
> doesn't smell like any laquer thinner I ever remember, but
> maybe my memory isn't so good any more.  I know the stuff
> is designed to lift both lead and copper residues from a
> gun or rifle barrel, and one can see the copper turn green
> if one lets the stuff soak in the bore a few minutes.
>
>    My favorite treatment for wet plugs is genuine CRC
> "Brakleen" (R) - the red label can, not the green, non-
> clorinated one.  Why that brand?  Because besides having
> an excellent solvent, it also has enough propellant pressure
> to displace debris.  And, no, I have no financial interest
> in the copy ... other than owning about a dozen cans of
> the stuff.
>
> Regards,
> Dale R.                              (___
> COZY MkIV-R13B #1254          |----==(___)==----|
> Ch's 4, 5, 16 & 23 in progress      o/ | \o
> (it's 110 in the shop, time to come in the house and get
> underfoot of my spouse for a few hours.)
>
>
> > From: "Echo Lake Fishing Resort (Georges Boucher)"
> > Date: 2005/06/16 Thu PM 04:05:11 EDT
> > To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net
> > Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: engine not starting - spark plugs
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > Gun wash is low grade lacquer thinner, any lacquer thinner or brake
> cleaning
> > spray will do the trick, the plugs don't have to soak for an hour, a
> minute
> > will do. Make sure all the black is dissolved completely, blow it
> completely
> > dry.
> >
> > Georges
> >
>
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