ORIGINAL: Charley
ORIGINAL: gkamysz
Model glow engines are not rocket science. We have copious amounts of oil available, virtually unlimited cooling, a fuel which tolerate a wide air fuel ratio, and an ignition system that is not critical. On top of that, if the price is low enough, most customers consider them disposable. In the next couple weeks I'll be designing and building my own design from scratch.
I'll bet your idea of designing and building a model engine is to assemble a bunch of off-the-shelf components into a package and then hang your Logo on it. There's a lot of that going around. Well, I have news for you: engineers designed those components from scratch. And you can still go wrong if you don't use components from suppliers who applied top notch engineering, including the metallurgy, to them.
CR
Come now Charley, you're making many assumptions for not knowing me. I have a lathe and a mill and know how to use them. I might take offense to your assumptions about my abilities, but I won't. I could list my accomplishments or post a list of books in my library, but I won't. Today is a happy day for me. Otherwise, I'd give you an earful, or rather screenful. I'm quite surprised how you are offended that I don't think somebody else made as much effort to produce something as you think they did. Unless you were one of those engineers at Saito. For some reason you think designing an engine is an impossible task left to only those so holy as to have been doing it for 40 to 50 years. What will we all do when those engineers are gone? Surely nobody will be able to design model engines then.
This is my last post in this thread.