A very good topic! But ,I think maybe better addressed in a seperate article. What I was shooting for with this article is a basic introduction for people who know little or nothing about glow engines and how they work. I seem to unintentionally do a lot of P.R. for our hobby. I fly in some public places including my church and where I work, so I constantly find myself explaining how our equipment works. I also teach for a living and I've recently "hooked" a couple of my students who are also pulling some of their friends into the fun. Most of the students I get at work already have some understanding of how a car or tractor engine works, they just don't know anything about RC models.
For the ones who are interested in electric planes and helicopters, I've been able to steer them to the E-books in the electric forum to gain some knowledge. But for glow engines, I haven't found similar resources. You can read through various threads and glean some information, but there really is not anything similar to my article that was readily availble to help answer someone's questions. So I wrote this article about a year ago and keep a couple printed copies in my desk drawer.
I made some edits before sharing it here, but hopefully it will end up in the RC University. If that happens, then maybe someone will add an article on tuning, maintenane, rust prevention, and other relevant topics, or maybe I'll get around to it myself. I already have another article written for tuning, but no sense sharing it yet until I see how this article is received by the RC community here.
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