Oil Leakage Chart - How much am I losing?
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GAHorn
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Oil Leakage Chart - How much am I losing?
Here's an interesting factoid. Notice the leakage is calibrated in GALLONS. (This gives a whole new perspective with regard to Bruce's contribution to our dependancy on foreign oil.)
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Bruce Fenstermacher
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Re: Oil Leakage Chart - How much am I losing?
Well using the rate of 1 drop every 10 seconds to make .11 gallons an hour I get 19636.3636 drops in a quart.
Using this info I created a chart showing quarts per hour loss and what that translates into. For those Excel geeks : Looking at the chart I was losing about a quart every 2.5 hours which is about 8.7 drops every ten seconds.
Using this info I created a chart showing quarts per hour loss and what that translates into. For those Excel geeks : Looking at the chart I was losing about a quart every 2.5 hours which is about 8.7 drops every ten seconds.
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W.J.Langholz
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Re: Oil Leakage Chart - How much am I losing?
I better put 2 cases of oil at the end of my runway.........
Bruce you are getting expensive
W.
Bruce you are getting expensive
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GAHorn
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Re: Oil Leakage Chart - How much am I losing?
We may have figured out why there is not much "Pennsylvania-grade" oils sold anymore. Perhaps the market has been cornered.
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50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention.
An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.
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An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.
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Bruce Fenstermacher
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Re: Oil Leakage Chart - How much am I losing?
Remember that usage rate was BEFORE Frank made me feel guilty and seal all my pushrod tubes. I'm currently at about 1 drip per hour in the last two hours of flight. A shocking difference I doubt will keep up. 
W you put 2 cases of oil on the end of your runway, I'll be sure to stop and pick them up.
W you put 2 cases of oil on the end of your runway, I'll be sure to stop and pick them up.
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