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I've just run the engine for almost a full hour over the last 2 weeks. This is the first time its been run for well over a year.
I have not done anything special to the engine while it waits for the rest of the airplane to be completed.
Every once in a while I do turn it over a few times by hand with the prop just to assure that it has not seized. Besides my garage is quite dry most of the time. I suppose the question for the experts is, "Is a rotary engine as susceptible to internal corrosion as a piston engine"? My guess would be yes, since 4 of the 6 combustion chambers are open to atmosphere at any given time.
Jim Maher
--- Original Message ---
From: Ernest Christley <echristley@nc.rr.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: N993FL (RV-3) Data collection
Jim, you had your engine running quite a while ago. What do you do to keep it fresh while you build your airplane around it? It would seem that you would want to run it regularly, but not running it enough would be worse than not running at all. Did you just 're-
pickle' it?
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