Subject: Single Rotor Oil Distribution
From: ACRE NL
Date: 8/22/2002, 10:08 PM


     Fred Osborn wrote:
     >
     > Paul,
     >
     > One of the items that has us 6.5B people wondering is how to
     > distribute our excess oil, that is the oil that normally
     > would be used to cool and lube the second rotor. It would
     > seem a waste to just let the pressure regulator dump it back
     > to the oil pan. My choice would be to double the cooling oil
     > flow to our one rotor. Warm-up should not be extended much
     > since we will have less thermal mass and total oil volume.
     > Any wisdom from you and all others would be appreciated.
     >
     > Fred O.

     Sounds like a good idea.

     Paul Lamar


 > "Quirk, Kevin KA" wrote:

Could that be an issue for the oil control rings (trying to cope with double the standard oil
volume)?

KQ


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