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Offline GlennLever

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Cooling the engine between rounds
« on: June 27, 2018, 11:11:04 AM »
Fans yep.

I know you do not want to suck air through the valve covers due to fire hazard.

I want to blow into one side and have it come out the other, what do you use?

Glenn
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Re: Cooling the engine between rounds
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2018, 11:26:49 AM »
Cheap electric leaf blower works for blowing thru engine.
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Re: Cooling the engine between rounds
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2018, 12:16:53 PM »
Quote from: wideopen231 on June 27, 2018, 11:26:49 AM
Cheap electric leaf blower works for blowing thru engine.

i have been told the duty cycle on the leaf blowers do not hold up when the flow is reduced to flow through the burn down tubes?
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Re: Cooling the engine between rounds
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2018, 04:07:54 PM »
Put more fuel into the engine and remove valve covers after a pass.  We use a leaf blower formerly to cool our converter now we cool our clutch with it has to have at least ten years on it!
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Re: Cooling the engine between rounds
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2018, 03:02:26 AM »
Maybe because its now antique but my craftsman elec. leaf blower is about 25 years old. Well I think its actually been used to blow leave 2 or 3 times unless you count the ones that blow into shop.LOL
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Re: Cooling the engine between rounds
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2018, 09:33:23 AM »
Glenn,

Wayne Sears has a small fan he made using some sort of blower motor.  It slips into the burn down tube, really nifty.  I made a light duty one from a cheap battery powered fan that I stick in between rounds, but I hit it with the leaf blower at the end of the day.  Kinda surprised somebody hasn't addressed making and marketing something.

Steve K.
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Re: Cooling the engine between rounds
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2018, 09:52:51 AM »
Quote from: sknopp on June 28, 2018, 09:33:23 AM
Glenn,

Wayne Sears has a small fan he made using some sort of blower motor.  It slips into the burn down tube, really nifty.  I made a light duty one from a cheap battery powered fan that I stick in between rounds, but I hit it with the leaf blower at the end of the day.  Kinda surprised somebody hasn't addressed making and marketing something.

Steve K.

That is what I am looking for, any pictures?
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