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Old 03-22-2006 | 09:01 PM
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Default RE: McCulloch 31cc w/ Rear Exaust and Carb, is it better?

The reasoning for my set up was to acomplish 4 things:
a. Be able to use an inexpensive engine and to keep it that way, EI are in turn more expensive that the engine itself and still adds weight to engine.
b. To reduce the overall weight of the engine specially in the nose section in order to achieve a lighter flying structure which in turn will reduce the weight that is involved when balancing the plane if you have a nose heavy bird.
c. Keep the fuel economy. if converted totally to glow fuel it requires twice the volume of methanol to get the same flight time as gasoline does, and need for a specil carb.
d. Get more power out of the engine. the use of methanol/Nitro really boosts the performance of the engine even if you use it with the magneto set up.

Through trail and error by doing severall experiments when I first started
found out that the gasoline by itsel wouldn't keep the plug hot enough to keep the Idle going unless you kept it hot by leaving the ignition source on at all times(battery), so the logical thing to do was to add methanol to the fuel which makes the catalytic reaction on the glow plug, this helped ; then came some advice from the forum contributors about the plug part of the puzzle and that ended with the addition of the 4 stroke plug, that helped keep the plug hot without having to use an external heat source to keep the Idle going and the results were good but the transition wasn't good enough a little blurpy and the performance of the fuel wasn't still there, So I had some Nitro and experimented with it and that seem to be the final cure. Then the question came: Where are we going to get the nitro from?? that's when mixing glow fuel with gasoline came into play as the solution for our mixing concerns.
Through all the phases of this experiment I had great response from a lot of people each and every one contributing their small grain of salt, some in more extent than others but the final result it's what counts and I feel happy of the achievement that we made togheter, this what the Hobby is all about. I know that there's people out there that are skepticall about this experiment but believe once you try this you will not want to try something else because it's so easy to operate and maintain a real low cost "BIG BORE" engine without having to spend a lot of money.