REFLECTOR: Oil in Fiberglass

Alex Balic velocity_pilot at verizon.net
Tue Feb 22 08:19:12 CST 2011


USE Freon- but make sure you get the can that does not have oil added to it
-, and make sure you keep your hands away from the liquid it is very cold.
It will take the oil out.

 

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From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Al Gietzen
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 7:42 PM
To: 'Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list'
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Oil in Fiberglass

 

 

Use a heat gun and see if oil bubbles out.

 

John

Be careful.  You could easily damage the foam core, and/or cause some
distortion of the fiberglass by heating above 160-170F.  And the oil doesn't
boil off; it will only come out due to expansion of air in the pores.
Perhaps better off flushing with a solvent. 

Al


--- humeno at microsoft.com wrote:

From: Hiroo Umeno <humeno at microsoft.com>
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list <reflector at tvbf.org>
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Oil in Fiberglass
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 01:10:59 +0000

I have the same issue in my nose compartment.  The oil cooler pipe had a
slow leak at the fitting and has saturated the un-sealed floor of the nose
compartment with oil.  I noticed it when I saw that the cockpit floor was
rather slippery.  Is there  way to get that out?  Or is that a permanent
"feature" of my plane?

 

Hiroo 

  

From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of aminetech at bluefrog.com
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 5:49 PM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: REFLECTOR: Oil in Fiberglass 

  

I didn't realize how porous fiberglass is.  The oil line connection to the
cooler was leaking.  I cleaned up the oil and was using a heat gun on heat
shrink tubing.  In the process the fiberglass under the cooler got heated up
and oil began bubbling out of the fiberglass, a LOT of oil.  So I used the
heat gun on all areas that had oil and more oil came out.  When I have time,
I'll check other areas to see what bubbles out. 

  

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