"oh happy day" my first trainer
07-30-2003 | 07:57 PM
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From: austin, TX
"oh happy day" my first trainer
i got a free "rcm" 40 size trainer plane that was hand built back in 1978!!! its perfect, best thing it was free.... i have to replace the 46 os and fuel tank but thats it cant wait to get it in the air......was given to me by a 90yr old man who built it and flew it in 1978, have photo to date as well as set of orig plans....it's red and white trike gear....
07-30-2003 | 08:20 PM
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old rcm 40 trainer as a gift
dont know, its an very old prob late 70's "o.s." 45 still "pop"s when you spin the prop, carb all stuck had been hanging in his shop for prob 15plus years!!!!, fuse is fully sheeted, then monocoated red and white, wings are monocoated white with red tips, only has 1 small spot on the left wing tip that needs a monocoate patch, and 1 very small tear in the white wing top monocote, otherwise all is very tight..as a drum.... once i wiped all the dust off it it looks brand new!!! i plan before i buy a new engine to take the old os apart and soke it lube it, reassemble it put new glowplug in it and gas it up on the engine stand and spin her over and lets see what happens,,,, would love to use the orig engine some say since it still "pops" once it fires it will come back up to compression we'll see any advise?
07-31-2003 | 12:23 AM
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"oh happy day" my first trainer
I'd give it a soak in fuel, put in a plug and fire it up. I'll bet it runs fine. I wouldn't disassemble it before I tried it, you might create problems that don't exist now!
07-31-2003 | 12:27 AM
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thanks ill try it, its a really cool engine with a vintage round muffler would love to run it since thats what he put on it ill try it.
07-31-2003 | 07:05 PM
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your right... took the reart plate off, inside lookes new, i oiled the bearing, soaked the carb in fuel now it truns as if new!!! "oh happy day"..... the thing "pops" like a new engine..... cant wait to fire it up....have to repair a very small hole in the monocote top part of the wing then it 's off to the field with a really cool ol' hand built trainer and a smile..... 
07-31-2003 | 07:09 PM
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have to repair a very small hole in the monocote top part of the wing then it 's off to the field with a really cool ol' hand built trainer and a smile.....
No sense buying a roll of monocote for one small hole.
Bring the tape with you to the field comes in handy
