Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #13076
From: Finn Lassen <finn.lassen@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: how do you carry, and measure oil?
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 21:43:27 -0500
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Doesn't sound unreasonable. Let's say 50 hours, one pint of oil gained (16 oz)..
50 hrs at 8 GPH = 400 gallons. 400 oz of mixed oil. Only 4% of the oil gets scavenged into the sump. Rest is burned or goes out through exhaust.

Finn

Bob Perkinson wrote:
Re: [FlyRotary] Re: how do you carry, and measure oil?

The fuel vapors are blown overboard and only minute traces of oil are left behind. Multiply it by few million repetitions and you end up with extra oil. That’s my theory?
Bulent

 

 

Bulent,

If that’s the case then, for every oz. of oil in the sump there was a gallon of fuel that went overboard in vapors with a mixture of 1to128.

 

Bob Perkinson

 




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