Charlie and Tupper England wrote:

Paul wrote:

Alan Tolle wrote:

I need to clean up a few topics.

much snipped

go around.   The account from a car driver is interesting, but I think
only

a petroleum chemical engineer can answer the lubrication versus clean burn
question.   I am perhaps more concerned with the idea of crankcase oil
depletion in an airplane.    When I see an RX-7  parked along side the
freeway I always wonder if it ran out of gas, or ran out of oil.  They do
both.

I want to thank Alan for all the knowledge he's making available, but on
the subject of oil consumption: my O320 consumes oil at a much higher
rate than my RX-7, but my O320 doesn't have a red light and a very loud,
annoying buzzer when the oil level gets low. I would have to consider
this a non-issue.

Charlie

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