I would contact Ken Enya and tell him, seriously, he's pretty good to deal with and that does not sound right at all, perhaps if you could ask him for a replacement piston and cylinder ?
It's surprising to me, every Enya I own has an exceptional compression seal (the exceptions being secondhand, flogged out ones), you probably bought a friday afternoon engine.
The compression on mine is sparkling to say the least, arse-ripping would be more like it. If you could imagine that. I find it to be a very impressive engine and will looking for another one day. I haven't finished bedding it in yet, although it's very close. I'm still fiddling around with my Enya 15 V's, both new and both requiring a huge amount of time to break in. It's phenomenal how much time they seem to need, damn their oily hides.

No, not yet. I'm running my engines on a test stand mounted to a saw horse, good setup and I can tilt the sawhorse up and down to check out 4-2-4 reaction. Unfortunately the damned thing prances about with anything bigger than a 15 on it. Not easy to take tach readings with it advancing towards me like that, and the brand spanking new tachometer is giving lower readings than I think it should.

You should see the sawhorse go with the Enya SS40S mounted on it.[sm=what_smile.gif] I have to stand behind and hold it. I really need to correct this.

Luke,

I know what you mean. My test stand is mounted on a big lump of wood that I then have to place on something else. Not an ideal setup, but my wife vetoed bolting it to the table I wanted to use.

The setup is fine for engines up to a traditional stunt .35 like an OS 35-S or a Fox, although an Enya 29 makes it want to move a bit. When I ran my OS MAX-H .40 on it - Master Airscrew 10x6 turning 12,000 - the whole thing wanted to shoot forwards and scared me silly.

I haven't been game to run the Veco .61 on it yet. [X(]

cheers,
Colin

Wives, they do this! I mean, what's the good of a nice solid table if you can't bolt engines to them and run them flat out?[sm=sad_smile.gif]

Erm, my Enya 29 makes the sawhorse get up and gallop, seriously. It's starts to dance from leg to leg if I don't hold it. That Enya 60 I told you about, US$9.00 from ebay, it turns out it's unrun, slightly tarnished case and missing the prop nut, washer and drive washer. It's a 60III B too! [sm=what_smile.gif] I am busting to try it but not until a better test stand is available. I'll be riding that sawhorse into the next suburb if I attempt to run it.

Shooo. How about a cheap bag of sand from a home improvement center draped over the top of the saw horse? Ceaper than a new kitchen table and or wife especially the later.

Bill

Hey, with the high prices of gasoline today why not bolt the .61 to the hood or front bumper of your car? Mount it on the roof then you could have a passenger adjust your neddle for you. You could reduce gasoline expenses and break-in your engine at the same time. This may even help further justify a rather expensive hobby to your wife.

Bill

Colin, you would love the new/surplus Cox .049 Sure (don't) Starts. Three hours on my first new engine to get it to start. It eventually ran OK. The second one I gave up on and on Cox .049s in general, I have a run once or twice 1959 Cox .049 that is mounted on a display only Curtiss Model D Pusher. I'm tempted someday to pull it of and run it on a test stand. I don't remember (1960) the LeRoy Cox stuff being this cranky.

Bill

It's funny. I bought a used Enya .19 on eBay that arrived with the piston fused to the cylinder liner with rust (no, not congealed castor) and in turn the liner rusted into the aluminum block. With gentle clean up and reassembly with very light gun oil, King Kong couldn't break top dead center by turning the prop hub.

Bill

I had a very nice phone conversation with Joe earlier this week. I looked him up because another RCU member referenced his shop. I was interested in a muffler I saw on his web site. I need a muffler for my new Enya .09. It was listed as a generic muffler for .10 to .15 engines. It looks very much like a tuned pipe - spun aluminum and very long. I asked him if he had several to which he replied that he didn't. I told him I would be back to order it when I got paid on the 26th. He said he would hold it for me. I offered my name, phone number and E-mail address. He just wrote my name on the box and agreed to hold it until I got paid. A deal consumated on a word and a virtual handshake. Old fashioned values indeed. He might also get and order for a Brodak ARF Oriental at the same time. His prices are more than fair and his focus appears to be on customer service. He said he wanted to retire 10 years ago. I can see now why he hasen't - his customers won't let him. "A man who loves his work will never again work a day in his life."

Bill

Relax Bill, it was more or less tongue in cheek. And besides, where's the fun in doing things properly? I will be doing the sand bag thing soon, before my sawhorse takes off.

Whew, I was scared. I haven't fired my SS.40BB yet. I thought I was going to have to reinforce my workbench in my tool shed!

Bill

Hey, that was the argument used. It is after all my outdoor table that I keep some of my modelling stuff on on in the garage. Its not like I'm threatening to break in a diesel on her scrapbooking table or something.

But seriously, I do need to use something more solid than my "stand on a bit o' wood" for engines above about .35s. Drop by some time for some gratuitous running of engines and you'll see what I mean.

Let's see. A flight from Detroit to Brisbane or somewhere close - $2,500.00? If I can get thru customs with "D" cell batteries I'll bring them along with my three Enyas that need break-in. Evenings we could sit around a fire and put together a quartet playing didjerido, bull roarer, gum leaf and clapsticks. We could barbi some of your fantastic shrimp or beef. How many bomerangs do you have? I'll buy the Stonehaven of your choice. Does the Mrs. mind the stench of guys running around smelling like burned castor oil all day? Sounds like a party.

Bill

Bill, I wouldn't come now. A major storm hit Brisbane yesterday afternoon, damage everywhere and I myself have been flooded out. I have lost about $1000.00 worth of gear, all my plans are damp and drying out (some gone forever, fell apart in my hands), three new kits are the same and a bundle of balsa has gone down the river. Very, very upsetting. [:@] Thank God I didn't lose more than I did. All my engines were high and dry and the power has just been restored after 24 hours. Phew.[]

Colin, anyone else in Brisbane, how did you fare ?

Sorry about your misfortune there Luke, we had about 10mm of heavy rain during the storm and a further 5mm overnight, our house is on top of a hill in Runcorn, so no chance of flooding, Colin lives about 5 mins down the road so he should be OK too.

I'm at Arana Hills, we got hammered. The powerlines were shredded, broken in four places along one street alone. A large tree went sailing down the street (river is more like it) parallel to mine and slammed into two parked cars, trees down everywhere, floods, we've had sirens off and on for the past 24hours, all traffic lights out, power out, trains out, it's almost endless. The Gap copped the worst of it.

I can't complain Mike, there are others here who had far worse than me. Kind of heart breaking to see my Brodak kits floating around inside my flat though. The biggest surprise of all is that the kits are fine, I have dried them out already and I'm just waiting for the cartons to dry so I can re-pack them. I thought they would have warped beyond use. Unbelieveable.

God bless you. Sooo sorry. And I'm up here in Michigan *****ing about a-little snow. Keep some amonia around when you begin building, it will help you straighted any warped wood. Remember, the wood was soaking wet at one time.

God speed,
Bill

Kuraby came through fine. No damage at all. We're fairly high here, so no flooding, but my water tank is full now.

Luke - sorry about your bad luck. I'm just glad your engines were high & dry, but the plans are a real shame.

Looks like we're in for an interesting storm season.

I don't think I'll ever complain about snow in Michigan again.

My very best to you all,

Bill

It's all good Bill, and thanks for your concern guys. I'm still drying plans out, I have been collecting plans off and on for thirty years. It's killing me at the moment because some o the dye line plans have bled into each other, others are falling apart as I'm trying to unfold them.

I really don't have the room to spread them out and the weather is still wet so I spread as many out each day as I can, fold them up the next day and start again. Most of my stunt plans are unscathed, but I have a very large collection of CL scale plans. These are what became soaked. The best news is that most are fine and the plan death toll is still around 15.
Any plans I enlarged on the PC and printed out are toast, absolutely. Far out. These are easily replaced however.
My Cox engine collection did actually submerge which was my own fault for not putting the Big Box of Cox away. They're all fine, each one was bagged in resealable plastic and I have checked them.

A lot of people in the Gap, Arana Hills, Keperra and Ferny Hills have lost their houses and/or cars, not just some little bits of balsa and pieces of paper. I can count myself as fortunate and I don't dare complain. It's all good!

I'm currently darting in and out, the landlord and I are repairing the fence panels. The force of the wind popped the PK screws out of the panelling, oy! There are more storms predicted for thursday so best to be prepared. And I will never, ever store plans on the floor again. They were all in boxes but that meant squat when the water hit.

I'm happy to see that you are so resilient. I guess you have to have a well tempered spirit to live in "the land down under". I'm assuming no harm came to you and yours. Yes, ink jet ink is anything but indelible when wet. I used to sell for Xerox Corporation. I recall prepareing a rather involved sales proposal for a customer and was short on time for my appointment. I made a quick dash for my car in the rain with the unprotected proposal. When I presented it to the customer it had little ink explosions all over it from rain drops. Luckily the customer was not one of my stuffy, not a hair out of place, law firms. The customer thought it was a hoot and laughed his tail feathers off.

"Nothing's so bad that it couldn't be worse."

Regards,
Bill

Two colleagues who live in The Gap had quite serious damage. One lost windows & tiles, had the bottom floor flooded, and lost contents of fridges & freezers due to 48 hours without power. The other has a tree down through his roof. Not good.

Yes.

As you said Colin, Looks like we're in for an interesting storm season. I'm wondering if we might return to the weather of the late sixties. Cyclones down to Brisbane, floods and the odd twister or two. I don't mind the drought ending but I would prefer it happen in a more passive way.

But to conclude this little episode, everything's fine and I have come out of it better than I thought. And after all, this thread is really about Enya 19s. Sorry about that. []

Photo gallery of the storm & damage here:
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/g...382-01,00.html

The damage this time reminds me of the Australia Day 1976 hail storm we had in Toowoomba. We lost all the tiles and windows off the southern side of the house, and the wind was so strong that glass & hailstones were driven all the way up the hall to the other end of the house. There was still unmelted ice in the yard at noon the next day. That storm was really fickle - some houses were trashed completely yet the other side of the street was untouched. In East Toowoomba we were belted, yet a few km away in West Toowoomba they weren't even aware that a storm was happening and horse racing was proceeding unhindered at the Clifford Park Racecourse.

We do seem to be returning to the weather patterns I remember as a kid. Right through primary school, from October onwards there always seemed to be an afternoon storm that would break around 3:00PM just as school got out. By the mid '80s that pattern was a rarity.

cheers,
Colin

Enya .19s are just lumps of metal without the persons behind them.

Bill