Mmo

[Frank DeBartolo]

I am not using MMO at this time. What are the pros and cons regarding use of MMO? I add a can of Avblend at each oil change. Should I be using MMO also?

Frank

[TimHicks]

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So that's how it starts. I was wondering how long it would before the MMO thread rose like a phoenix.

Have you seen the archived threads on MMO?

[VictorBravo]

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I'm a believer. The one time I didn't use it was when I bought a 1946 85HP T-craft in Michigan and brought it back through Texas in high heat. I didn't use it because the guy I bought it from said they never used that kind of stuff. I thought I'd not change horses in mid-stream. So I didn't use it, and I DID stick an exhaust valve in Childress, TX for two days. I use a few ounces in the gas at all times. AVBLEND might be the same thing, I've heard it is the same as MMO and I've heard it isn't. All I know is that I believe MMO had been proven and sworn by for a while by the time the A-65 was designed. OTHER than perhaps having to clean the plugs a little sooner, I am absolutely convinced there is no downside mechanically.

[ROllerton]

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Grows hair where hair won't grow

Makes the blind walk, the lame see.

Tucker likes a a shot now and then.

[Vasey fan]

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Mmmm. Mysterious Oil. Love the smell.

But seriously, I used it religiously in an O-290 a dozen or so years back. It had low compression/suspected stuck rings in one cylinder and after a steady diet in the gas & oil it healed up.

I've been thinking about using Avblend myself lately, my C-85 has a little over 100 SOH now, a little prevention can't hurt.

[Karl Rigdon]

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I have been told the MM stands for "It is a mystery what it does and a marvel anyone buys it"

[high time cub]

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[QUOTE=Vasey fan]Mmmm. Love the smell.

Oil of cloves. (eugenol)

I've used this oil as a printmaker since the late 60's. Two drops added to a golf ball size lump of ink will literally turn it into a runny viscosity. Old time printers put a drop or two on press ink so it wouldn't dry out over night.

I've used MMO in small continentals for almost as long and my nose made the obvious connection decades ago.

I like this use of oil of clove from the movie industry when it celluloid was king (sticky parallel universe).......

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Robert Birchard - view profile
Date:

Tues, Feb 3 1998 12:00 am
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Robert Birchard
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Most film cleaners reduce static, but despite the claims on the
labels, do very little to actually lubricate the film. The are (or
were) some products that do (did) both. Surfacet, Vitafilm, and Jack's
Nu-Life were products that limbered up prints to varying degrees. Years
after he stopped making the stuff I asked Jack Lombardo just what were
the ingredients of Jack's Nu-Life (which was the only product I ever
found that was at all comparable to Vitafilm. He told me the formula
was five gallons of Stoddard Solvent to four ounces of oil of clove or
oil of wintergreen.

Pop Quiz.... What film did Dustin Hoffman use oil of cloves in?

[Carl Ellis]

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Pop Quiz.... What film did Dustin Hoffman use oil of cloves in?

Marathon Man - "Is it safe?"

[Gary Snell]

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check out this link for some more reading on the subject:

http://www.pipercubforum.com/marvel.htm

[flylo]

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MMO-Never leave home without it!

[CraigH]

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Put me in the "I'm a believer" column.

[Acroeric]

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I know a guy REALLY well that has about 700 hours behind small continentals, uses MMO and has never had a stuck valve or any abnormal cylinder problems. I know him really well.

[NC95842]

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I have not been using any of the stuff, Should I start?

[VictorBravo]

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Only if you want your engine to run a little better and never have certain problems

Marvel oil never fails to start up a debate between the believers and the non-believers.

Most of the people who have significant "in the field" experience fall into the "believers" category.

Most of the people who are non-believers are more interested in the rulebook than they are in what works.

[fearofpavement]

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Well, I saw these references to MMO and had no idea what it was until I saw later messages in the thread mention the Marvel Mystery Oil. That stuff has certainly been around a long time and I use it regularily (to lubricate my air tools.) I have never used it in an airplane engine but can't imagine it would hurt anything. I have never had a stuck valve either, so if I did that might cause me to switch over to the user side. Are the stuck valves more prevalent on the small engines? Most of my Continental time is behind the IO-520's and 470's.