The International Cessna^® 170 Association

I am looking for information about oil separators (crankcase vent for a c-145). I type in "oil separator", in the search, and I get information about everything except what I am looking for. What can I do to get better results?

anyone have info about oil separators?

Use the term "Air-Oil Seperator." Lots of stuff will come up.

Use the word "and" between each/every term in your search. In this example, search for the words "Oil and seperator". and don't furgit sum uv us don spel gud ...tri "separater"

I can't believe I'm going to let all you guys know this little trick but...... I bought a brand new NOS stall detector, horn and light assembly, in a 1950's Cessna distributor's box, for a spare/trading material .... on a certain online website by searching for a "stall detecter" I paid $6 for it because no one else bid on such a devise.

I also got a brand new in the box NOS gascolator by searching for a "fuel filture" for only $8.

I can't believe I'm telling you all this. I must be stoopid.

The search capabilities of php forums like this one is "ok" but not great. For those of you who feel like
expanding your technical prowess, here's another way to search this or any other site.
I use Google a lot, so that will be my example:

Go to Google.com and click the "Advanced Search" option as outlined in red in the picture:


On the next page follow these four steps as outlined in red in the picture below:

1. Enter your search text in the appropriate box in the top section marked "Find Results".
I usually use the option "with all of the words".

2. In the section marked "Domain" make sure you select "Only return results from the site or domain".

3. Enter the domain (website) to search: i.e. "cessna170.org"

4. Click the "Google Search" button at the upper right.




This will return a results page specific to the website you entered in the Domain section
rather than anything across the entire web. Clicking on any of the results will take you straight to the forum page.
See the picture below:

Doug How cool is that I did not know that you could search this way. It should make for a lot less repeat questions from me.

Doug, you are scarey. I'm glad you're on "our side" and not working with the "insurgents".

This is even easier to do if you have the Google Toolbar installed. Then you can just enter the search terms in the menu bar, pull down/select "Current Site," and click on "Go."

The Google toolbar does lots of other useful things too. You can download and install it for free at http://toolbar.google.com

Doug what can I say. Sometimes things are right in front of you and you just cant see it.

Can't tell you how many times I've done Google searches for things not expecting them to be related to the forum and yet a forum link would show up. I'd just think how funny and odd it was. Never considered Google to actually search the sight.

gahorn wrote:Doug, you are scarey. I'm glad you're on "our side" and not working with the "insurgents".

Just a typical day on the "fringe", George.

N9149A wrote:Doug what can I say. Sometimes things are right in front of you and you just cant see it.

Can't tell you how many times I've done Google searches for things not expecting them to be related to the forum and yet a forum link would show up. I'd just think how funny and odd it was. Never considered Google to actually search the sight.

It's amazing what you can scrounge up on the web. For all intents and purposes, if it's on the web, you can search for it. The key is knowing how best to execute the search.

Someone PM'd me about a problem they were having searching the forums via Google since the upgrade. If you use Google for forum searching you need to make a small change... when specifying the domain to search you need to change from "cessna170.org" to now using "cessna170.org/forums/"

This is because the old forum is still on the net, just locked. So when you get a hit on a subject the link tries to take you to the old forum which you can't access. Use the new domain specified aboe and you should be fine.

Getting back to the original air/oil separators here, they're so simple why not make your own. A couple of peices of aluminum tubing and a little welding and you have one. Since they're in no way structural, they can even be aluminum brazed with a propane torch instead of welded. If you are willing to sacrafice a few ounces it can very easily be made of copper or brass tubing which almost anyone can soft solder.

Dick, This thread/discussion began over a year ago. Dave was just updating his previous msg regarding how to use Google for a search engine. The topic of air/oil separators is not a current discussion.

(But if it were, I'd have to stick my nose in it and try to talk everyone OUT of installing an air/oil separator on anything other than a wet vacuum pump installation. Air/Oil separators were not originally designed for oil breather lines. They were designed to reduce the amount of crankcase oil which wet vacuum pumps threw overboard.

Installing an air/oil separator in a sump-oil breather line is a bad idea. The vapors/mist that or expelled out of the sump include water vapor. An air/oil separator would capture that, condense a lot of it, and return it to the crankcase. NOT a good idea.

gahorn wrote:Dick, This thread/discussion began over a year ago. Dave was just updating his previous msg regarding how to use Google for a search engine. The topic of air/oil separators is not a current discussion.

Dave??? It must be my week for name typos... someone at work sent out an email referring to me as Doug Monday. I feel like a private eye in a 1940's movie... "the name's Monday... Doug Monday"... or maybe Dave Monday???

Sorry, Roger. I thought Otto was piloting this thing.