Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #24065
From: david mccandless <daval@iprimus.com.au>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: re-drive question for Tracy
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 06:22:11 +0800
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>

On 18/06/2005, at 5:55 AM, George Lendich wrote:

David,
Thanks mate - yep that's my plan as well, try the oil bath (splash feed) and
then look at pressure feed.
I didn't think the Oil metering pump would give sufficient oil, unless Don
is looking at dribble feed.

 ***** There were two different approaches discussed here:

1. Use the metering pump just as a circulation pump thru a small cooler, but still using splash feed. ( splash lube is OK for gearboxes, remember that 99% of car manual gearboxes use splash lube), and,

2, Use the metering pump pad/drive, to run a small pressure pump to spray lube and circulate oil thru a small cooler.

Both could be unnecessary, and just add to complication, weight, and another point of failure . As someone said, "solving a problem we don't have"
FWIW, Dave McC

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