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| Subject: | Re: 912 oil filters |
Sorry for a late reply.
I believe what I practiced in Alaska could be helpful to the discussion of
oil filters, oil viscosity, and preheating in cold weather.
For airplanes in general, I would use a cowl blanket and cover the engine
cowl well. Then insert an electric heater that had a fan low into the engine
compartment and preheat the engine one hour for every ten degrees below
twenty degrees F. If it was 30 degrees below F, I would preheat for five
hours. You have to make sure the oil pan is heated. If that was difficult,
some airplane owners attached an oil pan heater to the bottom of the oil
pan.
We would also place a electric heater with fan in the cockpit to warm up the
radios and instruments.
With cars, we used electric engine block heaters, oil pan heaters, battery
blankets, trickle chargers for the same amount of time.
Larry Boone
Kitfox V in progress
Rotax 912 ULS
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Lee" <ssadiver1@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 8:03 AM
Subject: RotaxEngines-List: Re: 912 oil filters
>
> Hi All,
>
> HAPPY THANKSGIVING
> WHAT A GREAT DAY TO BE ALIVE!
>
> Hi Noel,
>
> With your car do you use a block heater?
> I know the people who live in the extreme cold climates down to 0F or
> lower have different issues. Preheating an engine with a blanket style
> heater or any method to keep the engine warmer on very cold days would
> certainly help. In my post I tried to qualify the temp range from
> 20F-100F. This I would think is the more normal day to day operation
> around the US during the year. Extremes during some debates should be
> considered, but realize they are out of the average day to day operating
> parameters and special consideration or a new debate on the extreme should
> be talked about. People in the extremes should take special precautions
> when operating their Rotax or any engine.
>
>
> Everyone have a good day!
>
> --------
> Roger Lee
> Tucson, Az.
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>
> Read this topic online here:
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> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=147927#147927
>
>
>
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