WMO Question

[homelessduck]

Can you mix any weight oil with different weight oil ? Or does it have to be the same weight ? Probably a stupid question ..

 

[flareside_thun]

Mix it up.....the fuel you use to cut it will make the difference in oil viscosities all but void.

 

[wmoguy]

I'm sure my WMO blend is loaded with various weights of oil. It's all about the viscosity that you get your "fuel" down to in the end IMO

 

[towcat]

Mix it up.....the fuel you use to cut it will make the difference in oil viscosities all but void.

+1.
I even have ATF and 80/90 gear oil going into the mix too.
Jet A is very agressive in breaking down heavy viscosity oils.

 

[flareside_thun]

You're lucky TC......I'd love to have access to Jet A.

 

[itsacrazyasian]

You're lucky TC......I'd love to have access to Jet A.

get chummy with the aviation mechanics like i did.

btw, i have my guys in the shop seperate the oil drained out of the new fords, chryslers, hondas and hyundai's. They all use 5W20 and its so thin that it doesn't take much jet A, kero, or diesel to cut it down.

 

[homelessduck]

Awesome ! Thanks for the info guys !

 

[DOE-SST]

You're lucky TC......I'd love to have access to Jet A.

It is getting tougher to acquire, for free.

5 years ago, a company would drop off a bizjet for fuel system maint, and after we'd defuel 500 gallons and repair it, they would buy new fuel. We could not mix their unknown fuel in with our tightly controlled fuel farms.

Some of their fuel would get filtered and pumped back into the aircraft. But, we could only recycle 300 gallons, and sometimes had to have a waste oil company collect the extra gallons of jet-A. No one seemed to have a diesel truck back then.

Today, every company flight dept is watching every dime, and aircraft arriving for maint land with minimum fuel. Rarely is there ever any excess fuel.

 

[flareside_thun]

Yup, it seems like now all companies are watching how wasteful they are. My biggest hurdle with acquiring Jet A is that I only have small planes strips around me.....one would probably be an ok JetA supplier, if I could get through all the hoops.....

 

[Matrix37495]

get chummy with the aviation mechanics like i did.

btw, i have my guys in the shop seperate the oil drained out of the new fords, chryslers, hondas and hyundai's. They all use 5W20 and its so thin that it doesn't take much jet A, kero, or diesel to cut it down.

They dont use synthetics in the new stuff? I would have thought they did...

 

[itsacrazyasian]

not full synthetic. Burns great in my truck. I usually filter 50 gal at a time into 55 gallon drums. I add 5 gal of diesel and add in the settled oil to make 50 gal, mix, then filter. Very little smoke.