Showing metal at 1,100 hours

"Maule Driver" wrote in message
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Kyle Boatright wrote:

Since you let the aircraft sit for 60 days, is it possible (likely?) that
the metal you are seeing is simply the layer of rust that formed on your
cylinder bores?

Possible? I certainly hope so. Likely? I don't know. Does anyone doing
regular oil analysis see this when their a/c sits idle for 60 days?

I realize that if I have a jug pulled and find nothing then I really have
a problem. What is it? Rust in the cylinder bores would be a Christmas
present.

210% increase in iron after sitting for 60 days? That doesn't sound very
likely to me, but then again I am not Howard Fenton. How many hours did you
fly after it sat for that long before you changed the oil and did the
analysis? Did you change the oil again after that? Try putting some rare
earth magnets on the filter housing, that will help collect any more of the
iron as well, give you another point of reference...

"Maule Driver" wrote in message
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Kyle Boatright wrote:

Since you let the aircraft sit for 60 days, is it possible (likely?)
that the metal you are seeing is simply the layer of rust that formed on
your cylinder bores?

Possible? I certainly hope so. Likely? I don't know. Does anyone
doing regular oil analysis see this when their a/c sits idle for 60 days?

Rust might end up in the oil analysis, but I don't see how some surface rust
from the bores would end up as metal shavings in the filter. (If I recall
correctly, that's what you found, right?) :-(

Does a Maule come with a Tost or Schweizer hook as an option? (And I don't
mean on the tail end...)
;-)

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Does a Maule come with a Tost or Schweizer hook as an option? (And I don't
mean on the tail end...)

You could always tow it backwards. It worked for the Wright brothers.

Vaughn

Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe wrote:
Rust might end up in the oil analysis, but I don't see how some
surface rust
from the bores would end up as metal shavings in the filter. (If I recall
correctly, that's what you found, right?) :-(

We have fine metal partices - where from we don't know. How surface
rust from the bores would appear in the filter? I don't know. What
would you expect to see in such a situation?

Does a Maule come with a Tost or Schweizer hook as an option? (And I don't
mean on the tail end...)
;-)
No hook but it has such a attention getting glide ratio that I think
I'll wait to get the vibrator fixed. Actually I do have some 2-22 time....