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Old 07-10-2013, 03:25 AM
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Default RE: MOKI RADIAL Care and Maintenence


ORIGINAL: john534

Hi guys,

I am not a Moki owner but I am thinking I will be very soon!

My friend at Siedel props and I are tinkering with this idea for the Moki 250 engine, have a look at our video and give us some feedback of what you think. He is performing the tests and makes his own props of course. This giant prop is still not enough to utilize all the torque, so he is moving on to the next prop design(dia will stay the same for a 1/4 Scale Corsair). This rough mounting was just to try the idea and now we will mount the gear set in a new front housing that would replace the original. The unit installed should only push the prop forward about .375''-.5''

http://youtu.be/UZ1_KryCrGk

Lots of details to work out, as its just the first test to see if the concept would even work....

thanks very much!

john

Nice!!! great to see that finally in the modelling world we are starting to think about using gear reduction on our motors to better match the full sized counterpart. Is the planetary gearbox you are using for the test an off the shelf unit? would be great to bolt that onto a dle55 for smaller warbirds!

Thanks

dave