Tarasdad

Stay with your current fuel. The extra nitro isn't worth the extra cost.

airraptor

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i still only run power master. they do have a new four stroke fuel wirth 15% oil.

going to higher nitro is worth the cost to me. i usally run 25-45% in all mine unless every one else in the same planes are running OS engines then i will stay with 15% to be close to same speed as them. If you need extra power then the extra nitro is good.

i would stay away from cool power.
Also dont run that heli fuel either unless the oil is below 20% which all the ones i have seen are 22% and higher.

w8ye

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Stay away from regular Cruel Power if you don't want rusty bearings

Use Omega 15% . You will like it. Will run like your Power Master did

Stephen Wilkowski

Just a few things to throw out, powermaster fuel is garbage, i have broke in 2 engines 1 with powermaster, and one with coolpower/omega mix, and the engine with the coolpower/omega mix runs soo much better and is much smoother, it also starts much easier. i have not heard of any engines running cool power rusting. i put marvel mystery oil in all of my fuels, it is a rust inhibator, and a penetrating oil. Just so everybody knows, castor oil will not hurt these engines.

has anybody bought any byron fuel from amainhobbies?, and how much is the hazmat shipping charge?

airraptor

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stephen maybe that extra oil is whats helping that cool power. i know i will never use cool power ever again.

the very best that i have ever used in my 32 years of R/C is Red Max.

power master hasnt let me down yet as far as quality goes.

Byrons was a good fuel back in the day but dont find it around much any more.

p-80

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did sati prices go down for a short while and now there back again because i swore like 2 months ago the brand new 56 was 189 or 180 and like the 72 was like 209 some were in there did i miss it ?

Tarasdad

Yeah, there was a sale on Saito engines a month or two back. 30% off, I think? Never have money when something like that comes around.

giddyuperic

This might be dumb, But how do you become a saito member?

NM2K

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What's a goob? Sorry, just kidding.


Ed Cregger

blw

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giddyuperic- you are member # 701

retransit

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That's the plural of "gob".

Bob

NM2K

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Oh! Thanks!


Ed Cregger

cedthered

Hi there, I recently finished a long and cumbersome build of a H9 Sopwith Camel, I put a Saito FA 90 R3 in it and the plane crashed badly on take-off. We have a bumpy grass strip
and the plane nosed over 4 times on take-off attempts and on the 5th go, I managed to keep the best upright, but at an angle out of the wind. The grass was quite long next to the field so i needed to abort or go for it. I made the mistake to go, the plane did lift off in ground-effect, and as i pulled back on the stick, it climbed, but immediately dropped a wing and went in. Hard. I am not impressed after spending so much time building the plane, and had to fix a lot of H9's faults with the kit. The plane was obviously too heavy for the Saito as it weighed in at 4kg (9lbs)...

I shelved the wreck, and stripped all the servos, motor and receiver out. I have just built a World Models J3 cub, with 1800mm wingspan and I put the Saito in her instead. Piper actaully did make a real radial engine version and it was called a J3P, it was a Lenape 3-cyl radial engine! So the Cub still looks scale[sm=wink_smile.gif]

This time around the plane comes in at 2.9kg so I hope the Saito will pull her around the sky a bit better.
If the weather plays ball, I will maiden her tomorrow.

Hold thumbs[sm=tongue_smile.gif]

w8ye

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That engine has a lot of internal friction and will not turn high RPM but it has a good bit of torque

I have a 13 X 6 on mine but it might do a 14 X 6 if well broken in (at a lower rpm)

cedthered

I am running a 13/6 prop on it at the moment, and am getting 9700 rpm, so not too bad, about what Saito says it would do...
It should pull the Cub round ok, I hope.

w8ye

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It will have plenty of power for the Cub

bewillia

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I'd like to become a member too. #702?

lopflyers

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There we go again, fuel controversy for Saito's 4 stroke. See page #712. My next question. If I use Omega 15% for the Saito can I use it on my OS 51 too? (it is 2 stroke)

Rudolph Hart

And a distant cousin to "gobsmacked"

JohnB96041

Man.....you fellows really know how to rub it in with an occasional typo

JohnB96041

Please notice that I left off the period.

retransit

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BANNISHMENT!

Bob

w8ye

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Yes

spaceworm

I don't think that is a word, but if it were, I think it would be spelled "BANISHMENT", with only one "N" in "BANISH".

Regards,

Richard

Cherokee Flyer

And they will both run very well on Omega 15%; summer and winter.

L.