Return-Path: Received: from relay01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.164] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c2) with ESMTP id 764002 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:00:02 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.133.182.164; envelope-from=canarder@frontiernet.net Received: from filter09.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter09.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.76]) by relay01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FCA93643D5 for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 04:59:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.164]) by filter09.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter09.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.76]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 15590-05-40 for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 04:59:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (67-137-89-39.dsl2.cok.tn.frontiernet.net [67.137.89.39]) by relay01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8BDA3643C4 for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 04:59:17 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4223F69F.7030202@frontiernet.net> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:59:11 -0600 From: Jim Sower User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Filterr or not to Filter: [FlyRotary] Re: FW: Cooling system update References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0508-4, 02/27/2005), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20040701 (2.0) at filter09.roc.ny.frontiernet.net That should work. All this scale and crap is a whole new issue I hadn't thought about until now. I'll bet my core will need some SERIOUS cleaning out to feel safe around this ... Jim S. Mark R Steitle wrote: > Jim, > > For a “quick and dirty” experiment I think I’ll try putting a > stainless steel pot-scrubber pad into my swirl pot and see what it > looks like after an hour of running. This is a bypass system, so I > won’t be inhibiting flow to the engine. I wish this had come up before > I first ran my engine. > > Mark S. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *From:* Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] > *On Behalf Of *Mark R Steitle > *Sent:* Monday, February 28, 2005 2:41 PM > *To:* Rotary motors in aircraft > *Subject:* [FlyRotary] Re: Filterr or not to Filter: [FlyRotary] Re: > FW: Cooling system update > >Ed, > >I’m with Tracy (use high quality glycol & distilled water), except for some possible RTV that might break free and get stuck in one or more of the radiator tubes. Seems a good backflush would remedy that. Next time I have my cooling system apart I might take a peek inside the radiator and see if there is anything blocking the tubes. Corrective action would depend on what I find. It wouldn’t take very many blocked tubes to push some of us over the edge. > > > >Mark S. > > > > Perhaps we could fashion a quickly removable filter and patch it into > various systems for a while just to check what it picks up. > Like, I wouldn't have thought it possible to block up a whole damned > radiator ... Jim S. > > > >Ed A > > > > > > > > > >>> Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ > >>> Archive: http://lancaironline.net/lists/flyrotary/List.html > >