Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #13102
From: Tracy Crook <lors01@msn.com>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: how do you carry, and measure oil?
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:32:42 -0500
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
 

"One thing for sure, it would stay mixed up as I drive"

What happens to this mixture setting in the aircraft fuel tank for extended time periods? Is a 5 minute "wing rock" a preflight requirement:)
Thanks,
Randy
 
Oil & gasoline is not a mixture, it is a solution.  Solutions always stay "mixed" unless evaporation causes the more volatile components to leave the container.  In 30+ years of flying 2 strokes & rotaries, I have never seen oil & gas separate.  That gunk left in carburetors of two stroke engines is the result of evaporation, not separation.
 
Tracy
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