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Old 04-29-2003 | 07:35 PM
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Default breaking in the engine

This might be a totally ignorant question here, but here goes...

I'm building my first model at the moment, and I'm getting close to the point of running the engine in (I hate to use the term 'breaking in'... tempting fate there ) I've never even heard one of these little two-strokes running before (O.S. 46LA) but I'm guessing that it's going to be pretty noisy. My question is, is this process going to be noisy enough and go on long enough to cause my neighbours to come out of their houses and beat me with baseball bats? If it could indeed provoke some display of domestic violence, has anyone built some kind of muffler box to run the engine in / run the engine in their basement with a cunning arrangement of plastic hosing and extractor fans venting the exhaust to the outside world?

I quite like my neighbours, and I'd hate for them to viciously kill me.

Cheers,
Neil.