Glo to Gas conversion: how to get it right fast !
02-11-2023, 03:52 PM
#51
With the new ignition the Saito 125 fired up easily and is happy again.
02-11-2023, 04:51 PM
#52
It was the bayonet type that required the spring. The replacement has the compression spring. So, at this point, who knows if the problem at the plug cap caused the problem near the ignition unit or what happened. The ignition unit itself is still firing. Glad that headache is off the work bench and back in the hanger.
With the new ignition the Saito 125 fired up easily and is happy again.
With the new ignition the Saito 125 fired up easily and is happy again.
I have had faillures with the soldered one (one due to a minor mishap, inverted engine and a nose over in landing causing the plugcap to catch in the grass, the other one due to vibrations. I could repair the one that failed due vibrations). But those repairs did not last "forever" so it got replaced and the repaired unit became my testbench-unit.
But whatever the cause, your Saito being happy again is the most important!
Last edited by 1967brutus; 02-11-2023 at 04:53 PM.
02-12-2023, 06:22 AM
#53
03-15-2023, 10:50 PM
#55
Well, I ain't planning on giving them away free of course, but yes, as it stands right now I should have a few sets availlable from mid May.I first have to go to sea for a month or two and when I get back, I hope to have all parts availlable again.
For now I cannot say anything about prices, although I do not expect them to change too much.
Please have patience and remind me again mid May (my memory is not what it used to be
)
03-16-2023, 01:34 AM
#57
Like I said, remind me mid May, because I'm not a business, I am just a private person doing this for zero profit and as a hobby. Therefore I do not "take orders" and do not keep a waiting list, for reason that that would lead to volumes I cannot handle.
That is also the reason why I have shared all information needed to fabricate this system, to at least "lighten my load" a bit
That is also the reason why I have shared all information needed to fabricate this system, to at least "lighten my load" a bit
03-16-2023, 01:59 AM
#58
that depends on the possible chain of events Fully agree on the "allready broken, what's there to lose" part, but one has to keep in mind that a 50 or 75 bucks ignition system keeps a much more expensive aircraft up...
There are planes in my collection that for peace of mind's sake would just get a new ignition if the old one only so much as looked back at me the wrong way. Then there are those where a repaired ignition would not keep me wake at night
That definitely is some wording!
Just a couple of weeks ago my waco and radial fell out the sky,,all because of a damn $30 transmitter battery pack..
Thats $1400 au of a really cool plane ..so lost a plane
but recovered electronics and the engine was ok after getting wedged in the ground
03-16-2023, 02:33 AM
#59
Well, one could call it "extrapolated experience": Never lost an expensive plane that way, but the cheap ones that I lost helped me preventing to lose expensive ones...
Knock on wood...
Knock on wood...
09-14-2023, 09:57 AM
#61
Are you one of the guys that contacted me via WhatsApp a week or so back?
09-14-2023, 10:42 AM
#63
