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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: Rapmoz on March 25, 2022, 06:48:36 am
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When I could see well enough, I used to build and fly RC planes. I ran anything from .049 to six hp converted chainsaw engines. My all time favorite was a .46 Enya four stroke with a home brew belt drive supercharger. I ran it as prescribed on glow fuel, but always wished I’d converted it to battery spark ignition. A friend had an OS flat four with his homespun distributor and battery ignition. It always started with a single flip, owing to the mechanical spark advance he had made, and idled at about 300 rpm’s.
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"biblical post assembly inspection" :D Excellent ! It reminds me of my uncle who worked in a Renault garage, he told us that we had to hope to buy a car that had not been assembled on a Friday PM, there were a lot of defects on these vehicles built a few hours or worse , a few minutes before the factory closes at the start of the weekend!
Yes in lack of CDI, I run the whippet with glow fuel ignited by a glow plug O.S. type "f" special for 4 stroke engines. the fuel is standard commercial 0% nitro. Glow plug "nitro" engines and so called "diesel" or better "compression ignition" engines are two completely different kind of model engines.
You are right, there is a huge gap between the seriousness of the factory that manufactures these magnificent engines, their verification / quality department and the "amateurism" of the website that markets them with bad photos / videos (almost worse than mine) and approximate or even fanciful descriptions…
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Sounds very nice. You’re running it as a glow plug diesel? What’re you using for fuel and oil?
I’m of the opinion the engineering and machine shop end of things did a great job. The assembly folks stumbled, and there appears to be biblical post assembly inspection, ie, pray the assemblers were on top of things. All that said, I think old ETW would be pleased by this rendition.
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Just received mine, fortunately for me this one is (almost) complete, missing only a screw.
It's a very well made engine with a superb workmanship, it starts easily and runs very well :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwiSCzynq7M