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The Regular Stuff: Chat, Buy, Sell, Off Topic, etc. => General Discussion - Scale Model Gas Engines - Hit & Miss - Throttle Governed - Non-Compression – etc => Topic started by: RedRyder on February 07, 2021, 11:31:18 am
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Beautiful engine with great finish and it runs excellent
very nice - thank you for the video
Arnold
Thanks, Arnold!
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That IS a beautiful engine Gil I only wished I'd gotten around to seeing this earlier .
Hi Bruce, Thank you! I think I have had this one for 12 years.
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That sure is a beauty indeed Gil. I have built 3 of these engines and never gotten around to painting any of them. The paint and polish sure make the difference!
crazydoug
Thanks, Doug, and thanks for taking good care of it while in your custody!
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Very nice engine Gil.
Hope to have the Debolt Star engine this year, despite the Covid.
Thanks, Alan. You are going to love your Star when you get it!
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Jeezo Gil ..... you should have warned me to put on my dark glasses before viewing!
BEAUTIFUL !!!
Yes..... the bright lighting makes all the bright work pop out at you.
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What a Beauty all shiny!! I really like this one 8)
Thanks. Nick!
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Beautiful engine with great finish and it runs excellent
very nice - thank you for the video
Arnold
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That IS a beautiful engine Gil I only wished I'd gotten around to seeing this earlier .
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That sure is a beauty indeed Gil. I have built 3 of these engines and never gotten around to painting any of them. The paint and polish sure make the difference!
crazydoug
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Very nice engine Gil.
Hope to have the Debolt Star engine this year, despite the Covid.
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Jeezo Gil ..... you should have warned me to put on my dark glasses before viewing!
BEAUTIFUL !!!
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What a Beauty all shiny!! I really like this one 8)
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I was able to acquire this in a trade back in 2009.
The muffler arrangement is not "correct" but I do like the looks of it more than the short straight pipe called for in the drawings. It always ran well but only for a few minutes. After talking with Bob Herder who makes and sells the casting kits, I learned the ignitor points were likely made with the wrong material. At Cabin Fever Expo in January 2020 I brought the engine to Bob and asked him to bring it home with him and rebuild the ignitor with tungsten rods for a near indestructible ignition. He did this and replaced a couple other minor parts and set up the spark saver properly. It would be October before there was another show I would see him and get my engine back at the Coolspring Power Museum fall show and swap. A couple weeks ago I brought it off the shelf to run and it was able to run for a couple hours straight without any trouble.
I thought it was running a little warm. It wasn't breathing well enough to keep it cooler which should never be an issue with no load. I separated the muffler halves and replaced the three .030" spacers with brass nuts .110" tall, threaded the lower half and replaced the bent pins with proper screws. Even after blocking the third of the opening that would blow oil over the engine and tank, it still had far better breathing capacity. After a long run, the head is quite a bit cooler.
Missing from the beginning are the front and rear cast crank case splash guards. I like the 4 column open frame look. While not quite correct, it works for me!
Thanks to Doug for making my rocker arm casting into a nice functional rocker arm.
Thanks to Bob Herder for the ignitor rebuild and tune-up.
Here is a new short video and some pictures.
Enjoy,
Gil
https://youtu.be/g2jK1sez7sY
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