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The rebuilt 120 just before installation in the 1/5 scale Pica Waco. The other pic is a comparison of the carb bores on the three Saito big blocks. (150 in the middle sporting a homebrew , longer than stock velocity stack as seen in on the 150 with the brass muffler.
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It sounds like a Cherry Bomb too. Good deep rumble. Nice thing is the very light weight. It does not stress the threads like the Saito trash can and iron pipe muffler system did. He has used it for about 4 years now and never came loose or gave any problems that I am aware of. Intalled wit SWAK and left it alone.
Jim
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Idle: stock exhaust
Max rpm: stock exhaust
Max rpm: with Turbo Header
I just ran the new FA .40a for 70 minutes doing my usual break in procedure.
Saito FA .40a new and un run
Fuel==Wildcat 10% with 18% full synthetic
Plug===Stock?
Prop===Graupner Sonic pro 11 x 6
Max rpm stock exhaust==10,530
Max rpm with TurboHeader=10,800
Picture #4== no leaks any where.
I don't care much for that Hobbico tach., it reads all over the place and finally settles down the number I photograph.
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Good numbers for a .40 ! Great looking setup with that spiffy muffler and elbow combination. What plane is it going on?
I have one of the old heavy MidStar kits about 90% done. Yes sir, ain't that a spiffy elbow, I didn't know if the FA 40a would respond well to the TurboHeader, but that 270 rpm increase is typical.
I have one of the old heavy MidStar kits about 90% done. Yes sir, ain't that a spiffy elbow, I didn't know if the FA 40a would respond well to the TurboHeader, but that 270 rpm increase is typical.
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Dave, I like this SIG Mid Star 40, it would due nicely with a Saito on it, but mine would have to have an open cockpit
SIG Mid-Star 40 Kit SIGPlanes.com
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1676&bih=838&e i=rWfrWvrUOdLV5gK685H4Dw&q=sig+mid+star+40&oq=sig+ mid+star+40&gs_l=img.12..35i39k1j0i24k1l2.4135.139 53.0.16125.16.16.0.0.0.0.80.1074.15.15.0....0...1a c.1.64.img..1.15.1070.0..0j0i8i30k1j0i10i24k1.0.Av 99Kap_M5Y
http://www.rccanada.ca/rccforum/attachment.php?attachmentid=80572&d=1277870219
SIG Mid-Star 40 Kit SIGPlanes.com
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1676&bih=838&e i=rWfrWvrUOdLV5gK685H4Dw&q=sig+mid+star+40&oq=sig+ mid+star+40&gs_l=img.12..35i39k1j0i24k1l2.4135.139 53.0.16125.16.16.0.0.0.0.80.1074.15.15.0....0...1a c.1.64.img..1.15.1070.0..0j0i8i30k1j0i10i24k1.0.Av 99Kap_M5Y
http://www.rccanada.ca/rccforum/attachment.php?attachmentid=80572&d=1277870219
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Jim, put your photos in a file that you name, for example, My Photos,etc. The Go Advanced button will give you the option to Search Your Device or a URL. Click on the picture, it will load to here and then let you UPLOAD to the post you're making.
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Jim, put your photos in a file that you name, for example, My Photos,etc. The Go Advanced button will give you the option to Search Your Device or a URL. Click on the picture, it will load to here and then let you UPLOAD to the post you're making
Jim
Being new here, I am still struggling with some of the quirks. All too often I have typed out a (Too)lengthy response, bumped the wrong button and watched it disappear! (Kharma???)
Thanks for bringing up the Mid-Star 40. I have a brand new FA-40 Saito that I was considering dumping. Now it will be getting a new home in a Mid-Star 40. Great suggestion. That plane builds very quickly too.
Thanks for bringing up the Mid-Star 40. I have a brand new FA-40 Saito that I was considering dumping. Now it will be getting a new home in a Mid-Star 40. Great suggestion. That plane builds very quickly too.
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Well, I've never used the (Copy URL) method, I always use the (Save As) option, so I don't how to do it your way. Sig has their pictures protected some way so unless you can find a Sig picture somewhere else you can't get them.
Being new here, I am still struggling with some of the quirks. All too often I have typed out a (Too)lengthy response, bumped the wrong button and watched it disappear! (Kharma???)
Thanks for bringing up the Mid-Star 40. I have a brand new FA-40 Saito that I was considering dumping. Now it will be getting a new home in a Mid-Star 40. Great suggestion. That plane builds very quickly too.
Thanks for bringing up the Mid-Star 40. I have a brand new FA-40 Saito that I was considering dumping. Now it will be getting a new home in a Mid-Star 40. Great suggestion. That plane builds very quickly too.
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Sounds to me more like the computer version of the old R/C pilots affliction "Dumb Thumbs". Did I mention I was a poster child for this affliction?
If the software finds something in the url that is incorrect it wont paste. Happens quite often to me. Example would be google images. If there is an image that is linked to another site and the link has embedded information and not the actual image, it wont paste. Usually it happens for GIF images, or those that use Java or some other language and the image is embedded in the code. It can also happen for protected images that the site they belong to has them locked to prevent them from being copied.
Even more without it....
I think....
Oh look, a butterfly..
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If the software finds something in the url that is incorrect it wont paste. Happens quite often to me. Example would be google images. If there is an image that is linked to another site and the link has embedded information and not the actual image, it wont paste. Usually it happens for GIF images, or those that use Java or some other language and the image is embedded in the code. It can also happen for protected images that the site they belong to has them locked to prevent them from being copied.
it just goes to show that if it's not 3/8ths of something, it just may be 5/16ths of something else
Jim Bob
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Sounds to me more like the computer version of the old R/C pilots affliction "Dumb Thumbs"
It's the loose nut above the keyboard syndrome.
Jim
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Alrighty then, since I ran the FA .40a with one of the new 11 x 6 Graupner Sonic Pro props I just had to try the 10 x 6 on a Saito .30: No pictures though.
Saito FA .30
Fuel====Wildcat 2/4 10% with 18% full syn
Prop====Graupner Sonic 10 x 6
Plug====OS-f
Exhaust=Stock muffler
Maxrpm=10,301
Best idle 2,160
Ambient temp 90 f.
Saito FA .30
Fuel====Wildcat 2/4 10% with 18% full syn
Prop====Graupner Sonic 10 x 6
Plug====OS-f
Exhaust=Stock muffler
Maxrpm=10,301
Best idle 2,160
Ambient temp 90 f.
Let's see the photo okc your comments are hilarious at the bottom of every post and jesse can see the butterflies again so i guess we are all back in the late sixties at a concert by some group nobody has ever heard of (could have been dave doing a guitar solo in country and western) lying flat on your back with thousands of others just dreaming
Ain't that the truth! I turned on a country channel on Amazon Prime, and was lie *** is this crap? This isn't country? Found a Willy station, now That's Country!