Hi,

A few years ago a friend's grandfather gave me an old RC airplane. A friend of his had given it to him and he never figured out how to get it running, so I couldn't ask him for help teaching me. After playing around for a bit and not being able to get the nitro engine started, everything was retired to a shelf in my basement.

Now that a couple of years have passed, I feel more ready to fund (kinda) and figure out this plane. It is a Kyosho Trainer 40 (Calmato) with a 63" wingspan. The Engine is a Tower Hobbies .40 engine. Everything seems to be in really nice condition, when I originally started working with the plane, I replaced the batteries to both the controller (Futaba FP-T6NFK) and the plane with new ones from Futaba (for an arm and a leg to the younger me). The plane came with some assorted spare parts, an engine starter that I don't know how to use, a kit box (that the plane sits on), etc.

Today I took the engine completely apart (I'm slightly mechanically / caution minded) and cleaned everything as best I could. Then I replaced all of the fuel hosing and tried starting the engine by following the intructions in the engine manual. The engine seemed to want to start and even reved for almost a full second a few times, but then my hand and the chicken stick wore out. I'm pretty sure it didn't run fully because my glowplug battery might be worn out, the glowplug glowed a warm orange, not too bright. .

My budget isn't huge, at the absolute most I could maybe buy a replacement engine for this plane, but the idea is to try to get the existing stuff working if possible.

I'm going to keep posting progress or stagnation as I get to it, with the hope that I can get some advise and input from the community

Engine: http://www.towerhobbies.com/products...owg0040mnl.pdf
Plane: http://www.kyosho.com/jpn/support/in...almato40_m.pdf

Tomorrow I'm off to Hobby Town USA for some help and supplies, and I'll try to upload some pictures of my setup.<br type="_moz" />