{"id":3447,"date":"2015-10-04T07:58:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T13:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=3447"},"modified":"2015-10-04T07:58:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T13:58:34","slug":"engine-dehydrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/04\/engine-dehydrator\/","title":{"rendered":"Engine Dehydrator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068\" data-series-id=\"36\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 45 of 50 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/12-engine-propeller\/\">12 - Engine \/ Propeller<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>One of the things that is bad for engines is moisture (that&#8217;s why all the aircraft boneyards are in the desert). A fellow member of the CPS (Cessna Pilots Society) has built an engine dehydrator. That I&#8217;ve been using for a while now.<\/p>\n<p>You connect the tubes to the oil filler port and exhaust pipes. Then when you switch on the box, a small air pump recirculates air into the engine after passing it through a bottle of desiccant. The pump runs until the humidity gets to 5%.\u00a0 Once the humidity rises to 10%, the pump turns on again so that in air inside the engine is always between 5-10% humidity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-07-04-IMG_20150704_173935480_HDR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3448\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-07-04-IMG_20150704_173935480_HDR-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2015-07-04 IMG_20150704_173935480_HDR\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-07-04-IMG_20150704_173940633_HDR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3449\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-07-04-IMG_20150704_173940633_HDR-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2015-07-04 IMG_20150704_173940633_HDR\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen some of these homebuilt systems that run either continuously or on a preset timer. I like this one because it actively monitors the moisture level.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure if it&#8217;ll make any difference but it&#8217;s a lot more humid here in FL than it was in IL.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested, contact Jerry Olson at <span class=\"gI\"><span class=\"go\">jolsonpt38@sbcglobal.net<\/span><\/span>. He will need to know what type of engine and if you made any modifications that he needs to accommodate (like my breather tube into the exhaust).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"36\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 45 of 50 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/12-engine-propeller\/\">12 - Engine \/ Propeller<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>One of the things that is bad for engines is moisture (that&#8217;s why all the aircraft boneyards are in the desert). A fellow member of the CPS (Cessna Pilots Society) has built an engine dehydrator. That I&#8217;ve been using for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/04\/engine-dehydrator\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"series":[36],"class_list":["post-3447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-47","series-12-engine-propeller"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3450,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions\/3450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3447"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}