3M Fuels

[Woodward James R Civ 412 TW/DRP/ACQ]

Hi Alan,

I first ran the Cool Power 25% and went through plugs fairly quickly.  On
Cool Power 15% I've managed to have a set of A5 plugs last over 40 flights,
with no sign of needing replacement yet.  The Cool Power 15% has 17%
synthetic oil.  I spoke with a person at Morgan Fuels about what the
difference would be between "16% or 17%", and they did not feel that a 1%
change in oil would be noticeable.  The 15% fuel is producing awesome
performance on the 17 x 12 regular APC, and the plugs are lasting.

Jim W.


-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Simmonds [mailto:alan at gspceilings.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 10:56 AM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: RE: 3M Fuels

Hi Tom
This may be a silly question but what are you thinning the 20% coolpower
with - methanol?

Our 3M 170's were transformed when we got hold of the OS A5 plugs. We
are using Model Technics Bekra 16% at the moment which uses a mix of EDL
and Klotz reg. techniplate @15%. Seems to work OK.

Alan

<Hi all,

Just an observation I thought that you 3M users may find useful.

Some of my flying mates are using the 3M 170, the fuel choice seems to
be of vital importance. Best results ( and by a looooooong way) have
been obtained by thinning down the Coolpower 20% Heli to 15% total nitro
content. This results in an oil content of around 16.5% ( roughly)

The instructions do mention MicroMotul oil ( also a low viscosity oil),
but due to cost and availability ( lack of) my friends have not tried
this yet. Klotz KL-198 is in the process of being tried however.

So if it wont run properly and chews plugs, give this a try. It seems to
have fixed theirs. Night and day!

Tom>

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