combatpigg

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I've got quite a collection of stock TD .049 needles that never got used and for years I've scratched my head as to how I could ever get some use out of them.

I'm working on a project where a tiny remote needle is needed. I took some aluminum round stock and machined it down to a press fit into the Cox needle body. I left a short nub sticking out in back so it could get mounted to a firewall or engine mount. The aluminum piece is cross drilled to line up with the discharge hole in the Cox unit.

We'll see later how well it works to feed a Norvel .074.

rcguy59

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OK, I'll bite. Why would one need/want a remote needle on a Norvel. Not being a wiseass here, I'm just stumped. I have 9 of those little gems so I'm curious.

Jaspur_x

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A cowled engine maybe, or fingers that get into spinning props. I dunno, I never even started my norvel 074 yet, just sits there waiting for my other engines to wear out,but that will take years considering I rarely fly anything that large anymore.

Great work CP , I had thought about modifying a in line fuel filter for same purpose

combatpigg

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Thanks.
I'm working with a cowl and the stock carb is too big so I'm going to the trouble to make a venturi.
After considering the options, I wanted to make a fairly shallow notch in the cowl back by the firewall and I'll end up being able to leave both the muffler and needle alone if the cowl needs to come off.

rcguy59

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That makes sense. Is there more power to be had from the .074 with a venturi, without resorting to bladder pressure?

combatpigg

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I goofed around years ago with a .074 on bladder and speed props. By just removing the carb and sticking a tiny NVA into the holes in the case that secure the carb. I don't recall what the outcome was....I didn't touch the engine internally so the engine was limited. I don't know of anyone who has made one of these engines into a "AME .074".

Mr Cox

Looks like a nice solution, any pictures of the plane and cowl?

I have a cowled, and inverted, .074 in a super chipmunk. The carb and needle fitted quite easily, but the stock muffler was sticking out too much.

combatpigg

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That's a good looking plane Mr Cox..! [:-]

Here is the NVA pressed into a seperate hunk of aluminum that is held by 2 screws to the firewall.

The Venturi took almost 2 hours to make with that oval shaped section that inserts into the crankcase....so I'll be happy to make these for about $80 each............

The plane is based on a Mike Pratt design called The Force...but scaled way down and with a built up fuselage instead of a profile. It will be flown on 50 foot lines....I hope successfully.

combatpigg

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De Plane...!!

Toad

looks like it will work to me,, good idea

Mr Cox

Nice lines on that plane, looks fast...

I was worried about overheating inside a cowl but the large fins seem very effective, I just put some baffles to direct the flow over the fins and made a large exit hole for the air. I love the handling of the .074 engine, but haven't pushed mine for high rpms, about 17500rpm on an APC6.3x4 and 10% Nitro is fine with me.

I tried to make a little movie of mine, it doesn't show that much but I love the direct throttling response from idle without hesitation. Just shows what can/could be done with small engines if the manufactures made a little effort.

Take off a little rich (engine cooled down while I fiddled with the camera), skip to about 1:10 where I lowered the idle;

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trSCx-6zlAo&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL[/youtube]

Jim Thomerson

I saw something similar to what you are doing. As a past Nats, I watched Doug Joyce (Joiner?) fly his canard clipper cargo airplane with two Cox TD 010's. He had a tank (bladder?) feeding a cox needle assembly like yours with line going to either of the TD 010's. As I recall he held the record at the time, and his system worked just fine. He is a free flighter who flys canards in various free flight events at a very high level of competition.

combatpigg

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Hi Jim...maybe that arrangement made his engines quit at the same time with more regularity..?
I have a twin engine RC biplane with a pair of TD .049s fed from the same bladder. There is a line that goes out of both ends of the same bladder to each NVA. The engines never do shutoff at the same time like you think they would....so most flights end up with a knife edge flight Grande Finale until both engines quit.
The magical thing about playing with model engine plumbing fittings is how well light press fits work, even with bladder pressure