ORIGINAL: Campgems
Gene, is it the same oil and fuel that you have been mixing all along? The reason I ask is that mixing two oils together can sometimes lead to a gummy mess. When I was repairing IBM card machines, we were very careful to use the ''right'' oil. Sintered bronze was the worst as it is usually oil impregnated when new and a couple drops of the wrong oil on it and things would turn nasty.
You need to come out and visit where things are warm. We've had a great couple weeks and it looks like it's going to continue. To nice actually, my pulm trees are in blossom. That shouldn't happen for another 6 weeks or so. I was out to the field yesterday with my Sagatia 900. We seem to be going into a thermal soaring phase at the field. One of our new guys is a very experienced glider pilot. He went nuts over the thermals we were getting. He claimed it was the best day he ever saw. Me, well after about 10 minuets total stick time and never launched or landed, it was just another day. In fact I wish I had my Twist 150 out there. Maybe Monday.
Don
Don, it's the same oil, mater of fact the same bottle. I'm not one of the tune for smoke people, I tune the engine and if it has a smoke trail fine, if not fine. It's usually the oil type used in the fuel giving you the smoke trail anyway and I did change fuels. When Power Master was no longer sold here I went to Wild Cat 15% nitro and it only had 15% oil so I started adding the Klotz, two ounces to the gallon. My engines loved it, just seemed to run smoother? No change in the tune at all. I bought the fuel now sold under the Hobby People brand name, the label looks just like the Wild Cat but HP advertised it as 18% oil but it isn't stated on the label and I didn't trust it so I still added the Klotz. This engine is always hard to get fuel to feed first fire up of the day. Maybe I forgot to clean the needle valve assembly when I went through it? Anyway, I broke the header off at the head a couple weeks ago and I didn't run the engine dry, just hung it up wet. You may be onto something though. This Hobby People fuel may have a different oil blend and the Klotz may make the blend of oil thicken up? I will quit adding oil but then I loose that nice smoke trail!!
I will hear all about it again, I fly with a few smoke trail tuners!!
71 and a short sleeve shirt isn't a bad day at all. It was the broken engine and the non starting engine that put a damper on my day. I only took the two planes with me.[&o]
Gene