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Showing metal at 1,100 hours
I would _think_ that the rust that can accumulate in 60 days on an oily
surface like your cylinders is going to be microscopic in thickness. So anything that gets scraped off would be microscopic in size. If you had rust thick enough to scape off in visible shavings, I would think it would be enough to sieze the engine. But, I've never run an experiment where I've left an engine sit for 60 days then measured the rust thickness. Were the metal shavings shiny or rust? If they were shiny, then it wasn't rust from the bores, eh? If you take the prop off when you put the tow hook on, it should improve the L/D, right? -- Geoff the sea hawk at wow way d0t com remove spaces and make the obvious substitutions to reply by mail Spell checking is left as an excercise for the reader. "Maule Driver" wrote in message ... 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.... |
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