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Old 10-20-2025 | 12:01 PM
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Good day Rick,
Unfortunately I read a post by Reverend a few years ago that stated he no longer produces the fans for RC aircraft. I do believe there are at least two others who produce the fans. You will have to search RC Universe, RC Groups, and Flying Giants to find out who they are.

Good luck:
Roger

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Originally Posted by ForcesR
Good day Rick,
Unfortunately I read a post by Reverend a few years ago that stated he no longer produces the fans for RC aircraft. I do believe there are at least two others who produce the fans. You will have to search RC Universe, RC Groups, and Flying Giants to find out who they are.

Good luck:
Roger

Thanks for your prompt reply, I appreciate.

Kind regards,
Rick
Old 10-20-2025 | 12:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Carlo Vangompel
try this one

Brown Bear Motors

Carlo
Helemaal okay Carlo, zojuist direct de heer Van der Veldt een mail gestuurd.
Dankje !

Great info Carlo, I just contacted Mr. Van der Veldt
Thanks.

Best regards,
Rick





Old 10-22-2025 | 02:16 AM
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That's a cool P47, Rick!

Now this: you can see in earlier posts that I converted my R90 to a walbro carb and C&H fuel pump (which works FANTASTIC by the way). Well this past weekend I had a major fail. In a nutshell, the ORANGE FUEL LINE that comes with the pump completely failed! It cracked and fell off SEVERAL of the connections, filling my plane with gas) and as you'll see in the pic one piece plastic deformed in an incredibly weird way - which I could not duplicate by the way. It looks melted but when I purposely overheated a spare piece I could not get it to do this!

But here's the weirdest thing of all: I've been flying this EXACT SAME set up on the R60 in my Phoenix Waco and the same fuel line in that plane is still pristine after several years! Before this happened I LOVED this fuel line - I even called Adrian at C&H to try to get some spares (No, he doesn't supply it except with the pumps). But now I would NEVER use it. I'm just not going to change it out of the Waco yet but I went with Sullivan Pro Flex (and regular Tygon) on the Wulf.



Do NOT use this orange line, fellas. The Sullivan ProFlex is great stuff. It lasts FOREVER and it's the only line I trust to go inside my fuel tanks.

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Old 10-27-2025 | 10:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Carlo Vangompel
try this one

Brown Bear Motors

Carlo
Originally Posted by BeyondXtream
Helemaal okay Carlo, zojuist direct de heer Van der Veldt een mail gestuurd.
Dankje !

Great info Carlo, I just contacted Mr. Van der Veldt
Thanks.

Best regards,
Rick




Mr Dick van der Veldt unfortunately is no longer able to do any meaningful work WRT model engines due to health issues...
Old 10-28-2025 | 12:36 AM
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Thanks you for this info. (Sorry to hear, if you know him, wish him all the best).
Rick
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Originally Posted by BeyondXtream
Thanks you for this info. (Sorry to hear, if you know him, wish him all the best).
Rick
I know him, but lost contact a while ago... From what I know, he's still alive but not capable to do any engine work.

Will pass your best wishes on, not sure if they will register.

Old 11-13-2025 | 11:41 AM
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Default Cooling Fan

EXPERIMENTAL
Working on an alternative . . . . for now MkIV . . . MkIII, MkII, MkI are evolved






























Originally Posted by BeyondXtream
Thanks for your prompt reply, I appreciate.

Kind regards,
Rick
Old 11-14-2025 | 05:16 AM
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Progress . . . .

Up to MkV . . . . green cooling fan . . . When the weather is good enough, this weekend the first test runs and "test" flight

Green is just for visibility,
grey and black are for MkVI and MkVII

Fan light-weight around 48 grams (1.69 ounches) total
Installation is intended as Plug&Play






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Old 11-15-2025 | 11:58 PM
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Who has contact info for Ray English?
Old 11-16-2025 | 05:06 AM
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Originally Posted by rkiel
Who has contact info for Ray English?

11years ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffUehgpp8Ug

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGHhwnBmFhs&t=355s

No clue where to reach him
Old 11-16-2025 | 05:15 AM
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Better looking




Old 01-17-2026 | 12:36 AM
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Good morning
Last year my FG90 dropped a valve, and crush the piston and cylinder... Would you rebuild it, off course a i need a new piston,cylinder and valves on the one. And how???? Maybe new valves on all the cylinders, and maybe piston rings????
Dan
Old 03-04-2026 | 03:24 AM
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Originally Posted by ptdan
Good morning
Last year my FG90 dropped a valve, and crush the piston and cylinder... Would you rebuild it, off course a i need a new piston,cylinder and valves on the one. And how???? Maybe new valves on all the cylinders, and maybe piston rings????
Dan
If I may ask: how exactly did the valve fail? Broken stem? Where did it brake?

If a cylinder and piston would fix it, it would certainly be worth fixing.

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