ORIGINAL: loughbd
here's some pictures of that 10 year old "black sheep" Saito 80. Top Flite 14x6, OS type "f" plug, 12 1/2 %nitro, 19% 60/40 castor/synthetic oil. 9200 RPM. 6 minutes on 6 ounces and no fuel coming out the intake. Standard old non "stack" carb. This engine was a joy to set up. One flip start, set needle and go play. No more difficult than any of the other saitos I own and easier than a couple.
Oh by the way. Thr shiney silver muffler was completey black with burnt on oil. 10 minutes in hot Cheveron perfect engine cleaner made it look like this. Beats all night in a 20 dollar crock pot that you can never use again.
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We use the crockpot over and over again to clean our engines. You just can't use it again to cook food, lest anyone misunderstand what we are talking about. On the other hand that expensive few ounces of dedicated engine cleaner liquid is gone forever after a few engines have been cleaned. I can buy a lot of Prestone antifreeze at any Wal-Mart, Advanced Auto, etc., for the price of a can of Chevron engine cleaner. Where can I find Chevron engine cleaner locally? We can't even keep a hobbyshop open around here that sells R/C airplane stuff these days, so the answer is "nowhere".
Since my neighbors found out that I'm cooking engines, they think it is cute, I have turned down several free crockpots. I imagine this could happen to anyone that let out the word that they were using unwanted crockpots in their garage for various purposes. Lots of folks just throw away an old one when it gets skanky looking (burnt on overflow) and replace it with another $10.00 unit. At that price, they're not even worth cleaning for some folks.