dydx , it has been some time since i was in here as my computer suffered a terminal disease.Congratulations on getting your modelling equipment. Now hot motors , YES , they do run extremely hot , about 300degrees hot, so don't touch after running them , unless you want burn blisters. 2 Dense smoke. No you wont find dense smoke, but if you are running rich , you will see and feel excess fuel coming out of the exhaust. 3:- While running your motor extremely rich will cause some vibration, so lean it off a bit. In fact right now you can start your motor , go full throttle, and lean the mixture till the motor reaches full revs , NOW open the needle valve a full half turn, and you can now go fly on that setting. A few tanks of fuel later you can then lean it out to achive full power. Remember at full revs that motor will be doing about 14000 revs, frightening isn't it ? It wont explode . The reason your motor was stopping at low revs was because you had it TOO rich. So now go and enjoy flying to the maximum.
the_madgenius , instructor Yeppoon, Australia