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Russell Kent wrote:

George A. Graham wrote:

I hate to blow up the great scope/pressure idea, but you can only get
reliable data from a running engine, or one that was recently running.

If the wankle sits for a bit, the seals can stick in the grooves, and
give the "bad news" reading.  Start it up and run it for a while, and all
may return to perfection.

Boo, hiss George.  :-)

Well, this is off-the-wall, but what about:

  1. running the engine to warm it up
  2. then shut down
  3. then pull the plugs on one rotor
  4. run the test while the engine turns on the remain rotor(s)
  5. put the plug back in
  6. repeat 3-5 for the other rotor(s)

A fair bit more work, but I *think* it will work.

Russell Kent

The main attraction for me is it looks like a lot of
nerdy fun :-)

Paul Lamar

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