Re: Looking for user comment : Oil Sump Heater

On 24 Nov 2003 14:01:23 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Javier Gorordo) wrote:

>If anyone has experience with the Reiff's HotStrip Oil Sump Heater,
>will appreciate any input as to its usefulness/performance. 
>Specifically, I wonder how well (how fast) this pair of 100W heater
>strips can warm up a cold-soaked sump (8-qts) in an O-300 (open
>hangar, assume low in the 20s overnight).
>Plan is to rig it with a thermostat and an outdoor timer to have it
>maintain a certain sump temperature, but figure that the ultimate
>worst scenario will be to heat up from the 20s.  Plane is in an open T
>hangar.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Javier Gorordo
>c/o N1190F
>08C, MI

Aviation Consumer did a review of various heating strategies a few years
ago.

Steve McNicoll (a contributor to this group) had a bad experience with the
Reiff oil sump heater.

I use a Tanis heater -- oil sump and cylinders -- and leave it plugged in
all winter.  So I don't have a warm up problem.


Ron (EPM) (N5843Q, Mooney M20E) (CP, ASEL, ASES, IA)