tommayer wrote:

If you're feeling rich, try some Lenkite Av-Blend, or Lycoming

LW-16702.

I've seen the Lenkite work on P&W stuck valves after marvel

and WD-40

had

failed.
    I have a gun-nut world class pistol shooter pal who says

Hoppe's #9

ain't what it used to be.  The EPA or somebody made them

change the

formula,

and they had to hire perfume makers to recreate the old scent.
According to my source the serious firearms types now use

something

called

Break Free, available at gun shops.  You might be achieving a

first

using it

on an aircraft engine.  It works better than Hoppe's on my

pistols and

rifles.  Good luck.  Tom Mayer

Ed Anderson wrote:

  Thanks for the suggestion, Tom.

       I did purchase some of the Hoppe's #9.  Its a quite heavy,

oil low

viscosity but claims its a penatrator, the two characteristics

seem

contradictory. I could not tell that it worked any better or as

well as WD-40,

perhaps for the reason you mentioned.  I'll see if my local gun

shop stocks

Break-Free.

    I'll also check with an A&P friend and see if he has any of

the Lenkite

or LW.  By the way, I am having some success.  I freed all the

Front Rotor

seals and two of the rear rotor seals.  I actually fired up the

engine and

it ran - although shaking like a hippo in a disco - with the rear

rotor not

carrying its share of the load.  It looks like I have one apex

seal still

stuck, so if Lenkite or the LW 16702 can free it will be worth the

price.

Thanks again

Ed

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