ORIGINAL: DarZeelon
George Aldrich reached his conclusions when a tapered-bore engine was actually designed to last 100 hours; not 15 hours like some current "Nobody ABC" engines produced today (like the ones Brian experimented with...).
Thanks Dar, that gave me a good laugh
seeing you had no idea what the engine was or how well it was made. Now I have no idea how you treat your engines, but 15 hours??? I like the modest way you're now saying "the DarZeelon recommended, slightly rich break-in."
Now back to reality. Darock, I see you've just joined this merry group so welcome. But you probably haven't seen the thread I started about the test I did.
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/New_...2875125/tm.htm
As for the CL engines, I must have done thousands of flights with my Enya 45 (model 6001 of course
) and so far my Stalker 61 ABC has about 30 hours on it, all in a 4 stroke of course, and the piston is unmarked except for the compression band at the crown. Hey, that's twice as much as a "Nobody ABC" already!