Gazin.ASKAP, Tinwacker and others:
I ask you the following:
Is opening an oil can with the correct tool an unsafe workshop practice?
Do you consider inverting oil cans before opening an unsafe workshop practice?
It behooves us as senior maintenance personnel to impart high maintenance standards to those we supervise and advise.
Using a screwdriver to open oil cans shows less than professional standards, or perhaps incorrect instruction on the use of hand tools at the base trade level. There are also OHS issue if one is using palm of the hand to strike the screwdriver.
To shake or not to shake. Appears from the posts here, to be a matter of personal experience, those that have seen frothing of the oil and those that haven't.
Those that have experienced oil foaming/frothing of turbine oil - mobil jet11 and Aeroshell 555 in my case, will err on the side of safety and shake the can. Is it akin to saying a prayer?
Peter Fanelli
Real engines require a 5 gallon drum to be carried out on the wing for top up.
And 23 inches at idle
Hi mate, I had to laugh about PH service bulletin when it came out several or more years ago, just after I had a pilot break two on an Islander, he wound the props through several times ADOR - less than 50 hours TIS.
Cheers
BH