Rusty, where in Arkansas?  I live just outside of Little Rock and didn't know there was anyone but me working on a Team/Ison airplane.  I have been working on a miniMax 1600 for years but sorta lost interest once I caught the RV bug.  Unfortunately, I can't seem to find time to finish the RV either.  Guess that I just lack discipline (actually, I seem to just work all the time!).
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> The way it looks to me, if the drive was designed to have forced oil
> lubrication, you can't just add a reservoir. You'd have to also add an oil
> pump, and maybe some other form of cooling.  I'd also have to suspect that
> our fearless leader would have used a reservoir system for the RD-1 drives
> if there was a significant overall advantage (including weight, complexity,
> etc).  
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> Cheers,
> Rusty (got home at 5:00 am after hauling my new Airbike project back from
> Arkansas)
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