X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from imf17aec.mail.bellsouth.net ([205.152.59.65] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c5) with ESMTP id 938284 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 09 May 2005 23:00:50 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=205.152.59.65; envelope-from=ceengland@bellsouth.net Received: from [209.215.61.222] by imf17aec.mail.bellsouth.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.11 201-253-122-130-111-20040605) with ESMTP id <20050510030005.OWLE2428.imf17aec.mail.bellsouth.net@[209.215.61.222]> for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 23:00:05 -0400 Message-ID: <428023B4.8010009@bellsouth.net> Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 22:00:04 -0500 From: Charlie England User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Synthetic Oil and Leaded Gasoline. References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ed Anderson wrote: > Here is something I came across which caught my attention since I > normally use 100LL av gas and may interest some of the rest of you. > I am looking for other sources to see if there is a general consensus > about use of 100% synthetic oil and 100LL or rather against it. > I am currently using Mobile 1 as my break in oil > > Ed Hi Ed, The article summarizes pretty well the stuff I've heard & read about pure synthetics in piston a/c engines using 100LL. Were you using Mobil 1 before your incident? If so, did you see any evidence of the lead buildup when you did your teardown? Charlie (sorry that I forgot to make the connection between your use of Mobil 1 & avgas & mention it to you)