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Jinx, I don't know where you live, but if in the USA maybe you could send the 90-t my way and I'll try to fix something up to make it usable. It would only cost you the postage.
Hey Guys
Once again and as always, this group is not only scholarly but charitable.
I am planning on continuing the reassembly and running the FT without the broken crank vane. It ran before ok and I am positive the damage to the missing pin was old, so it wasn't operational anyway during those " normal" hours on it. Just effectively a rear vented case cover.
Would do different if a part was on hand, but n/a.
Your musings all concur with my field experience on this one. Thanks for the Charity.
Aaron
Once again and as always, this group is not only scholarly but charitable.
I am planning on continuing the reassembly and running the FT without the broken crank vane. It ran before ok and I am positive the damage to the missing pin was old, so it wasn't operational anyway during those " normal" hours on it. Just effectively a rear vented case cover.
Would do different if a part was on hand, but n/a.
Your musings all concur with my field experience on this one. Thanks for the Charity.
Aaron
I doubt lead would work once it hardened. A fine sand works because it can shift position as you bend. Its like I hit you with a lead pipe and I could break bones but a rubber hose packed with sand generally just leaves heavy bruising allowing you to sustain the questioning over a longer period of time. SO I have been told.
Hmmm
Okay fellas here I am looking for easy answers to difficult questions as usual. LOL So I just picked up some thin wall brass tubing from The hardware and I'm going to bend it to make a ring for my OS 5 cylinder. Lots of discussion about this process recently and lots of great ideas. One has not been mentioned. What about filling the tube with molten lead making the bend and then heating the lead to remove it. ( I have easy access to lead and a smelter pot)
Drilling in the angled spigots from the exhaust headers would certainly be a lot easier if the tube was full of lead when the drill entered it.
Drilling in the angled spigots from the exhaust headers would certainly be a lot easier if the tube was full of lead when the drill entered it.
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hey guys, this thing happened to my daughter Friday. (in short) my daughter with her youngest was in the store, at the register with $130 in food and she found her C-card was missing. she could not pay for the food. well the man behind her said he would pay. and she told the man "she couldn't let him do that" but the guy said "he was told to pay it forward, let me do this for you". and he paid. the guy went off and she doesn't even know his name.
this was a real big-big thing to my daughter, she had tears in her eyes as she told us.
Jim
this was a real big-big thing to my daughter, she had tears in her eyes as she told us.
Jim
That’s awesome there still some good people out there.
ok does anyone else have a problem with not being able to find engines that you know you have and when looking for that engine you find others that you forgot you had?
ok does anyone else have a problem with not being able to find engines that you know you have and when looking for that engine you find others that you forgot you had?
no I have a few of the old style. Don’t think have given it much thought. But thanks now I have to find one of those now, you’re not helping with my dilemma ha ha.
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Truth be told I lost a black and gold box .80 for about 3 months and found an old split case Super Tigre .60 I didn't know I had. I mention the color of the box because you would think it would be easy to spot but it wasn't. I had it hid in plain sight too!
lost a pumped, dual plug 120, I found it in the box with the 120 fat head. Maybe I was thinking they would have little Saito’s that would grow to be big Saito’s.
"Totally Awesome" cleaner from the Dollar Store is a good all around soup for the bath. Pick up a can of Comet Cleanser at the store too. I add some to the Awesome at times for the tough jobs
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Jumping in here as I have purchased a Seagull Models Nieuport 28 from an estate sale. It's specs call for 20-28cc gas, maybe 16-17" prop. The original owner has a big electric motor on it. That has got to go! I am very interested in having this airplane sound correct for a WWI fighter. My experience with Saito four strokes is all smaller glow ones from 70-100 size and has been fantastic, absolutely no complaints, ever. My current fun fly plane has a 72 with a crack pipe (radial exhaust pipe) on it and sounds and runs awesome.
So, in the larger sizes I now have a choice of glow or gas. I know gas is more economical but it is not like I will be flying this biplane a whole lot. And I fly 90 size glow helicopters so I always have gallons of 30% nitro on hand. I would like to know more about the running characteristics and sound quality of the big singles. The smaller ones are the 125A or G21, then the 150B (which is not offered as a gas model?), and at the larger end the 180B or G30B. Weight is not a consideration, I will still need a ton of nose weight.
Thanks for any advice. I have found over the years that some engines are just real sweethearts so that would trump every other consideration.
So, in the larger sizes I now have a choice of glow or gas. I know gas is more economical but it is not like I will be flying this biplane a whole lot. And I fly 90 size glow helicopters so I always have gallons of 30% nitro on hand. I would like to know more about the running characteristics and sound quality of the big singles. The smaller ones are the 125A or G21, then the 150B (which is not offered as a gas model?), and at the larger end the 180B or G30B. Weight is not a consideration, I will still need a ton of nose weight.
Thanks for any advice. I have found over the years that some engines are just real sweethearts so that would trump every other consideration.
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I'd suggest either the 150 or the 180,on glow. Neither needs 30%, they will run perfectly on 10%.The 125 would serve also. I am currently mounting a 125-a on a Sig 110" Rascal.
A rotary radial would be just the ticket. Find one on u tube. Itl blow your mind.
Crazy engine design but that's what they came with. Only seen one modeled. I have a seven cyl radial on this BUSA neuport 28. Looks close to the original if you don't know the difference.
. Builder / owner had a watt can on it too.
Electric motors start easy, but they have no soul.
Look much nicer with a round engine that breaths FIRE.
Or a Saito 180 maybe. Love them Saitos!