Richard D Bahmann aka/Wrongway

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I used the vent line on my 3 hole tank. It seemed to me that if you do not vent the tank the oil will not flow. I ran my vent in a loop around the tank before bringing it out the bottom of the plane so that you are less likely to lose fluid in different flight attitutes.

Richard

69 roadrunner

Thank you RDB127 i will do the same and give it a shot should be fun

Ryan Nau

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Does the 3W smoke pump need a seperate battery, or does it just work off the reciever power?? If it works off the reciever power, I wont need an extra switch and battery. [8D]\

NdFrSpeed

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3W smoke pumps work right off the RX,,no extra battery needed,,i use 3W pumps..ill see if i can get your short vid to see how much smoke they put out.

NdFrSpeed,,,heres a short vid,,wind was blowing,,6 to 8 mph and still lots of smoke


http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...12484136538827

todhog

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Is that the same pump that Aircraft International sells with the variable speed?

Todd

NdFrSpeed

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Todd

Yes i use the 3W smoke pumps form Aircraft Int.,,,just posted a short vid on the smoke they can put out,,thats with allmost a 8mph wind too..

NdFrSpeed,

todhog

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Where's the vid? I think this is the best pump on the market even though I don't have one yet.


Todd

Found the video!!

todhog

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How's the smoke at lower throttle settings? What about residue from the smoke. Is it better than a constant flow system? I've got a Don Harris pump with a pinch valve and to get it to smoke good at high power settings it blows black oil all over the plane at low throttle.

Todd

MinnFlyer

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If you don't want oil all over your plane, don't use a smoke system

todhog

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I'm not convinced that is 100% true with a variale speed pump. Some smoke residue I can see but black semi burnt oil all over the plane?

Todd

diamondave

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nice vid, is that the 30% yak? i almost got the silver one but i thought it would be hard to see, i had the blue/yellow flames, looks good

jongurley

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Hey guys what is everyone's opinion on the cleanest burning smoke oil,, I am putting a TME pump on my BME110x, ,, ,I was just wondering which brand will be less messy,, thx

NdFrSpeed

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diamondave,

No its a 35%,ive got 2,the silver and the flame,3W-106 CS in both,,lots of power,,

NdFrSpeed

NdFrSpeed

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Todd

Sounds like whats happeing to you is,,when you dump to much oil and its not getting burnt,its loosening up the black carbon inside your mufflers and blowing it out with the unburnt smoke oil..realy low power setting like in harrier,dont get the pipes hot enogh for smokeing very good, i never use smoke unless im at least 1/4 power and the eninge is makeing heat in the mufflers.


NdFrSpeed

diamondave

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nice planes, i had the 30% flamed with a zdz80, flew great but i had a switch go bad and lost it, now i have 2 batteries and 2 swicthes in my big gasser, learned the hard way[], i kinda thought about getting another one of those yaks, is that silver hard to see in flight?

NdFrSpeed

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No not really,on nice days it shows up good,,but certain cloudy days kind of masks it,but never had trouble louseing it or anything like that,yes i kind of like the Silver one,,im just finishing up on a SD Models 35% Katana,,hopefully maiden it this weeken..,,,my frist choise was the Flame,but when i orderd my Silver one over a year ago they were out,,so i took a Silver one,picked up the Flame about 6 months ago


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todhog

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Well yes it is getting too much smoke at low power but its just right at high power. I turned it down so it smoked good near idle on the ground but you couldn't even see it at anything above idle in the air. Smoked good at idle though and left hardly any residue.

Todd

diamondave

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i am not sure which way i am going next, i know it will be another yak, but i go from the ef 74" with the brillelli 46 combo to thinking about the aw75cc one, if money wasnt a concern i'd get the 75cc, i think thats a great combo, i have the composite-arf 2.3(90") extra with a zdz 80, excellent, and the aw yak is about the same weight but with more wing area, i know it would be sweet, ultimately the wife might decide, back to the money issue, either way, yours looks good

NdFrSpeed

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Diamondave

If the finances ever permit you,,get a 35% SD Yak,,talk about a plane,,,2223 sq inch,,they float like a foamie,ive had big Extras,,Edges,,,,Yaks,,the Yaks are just so much easier to fly and 3D,,second would be the Edge,,there great,,i picked the Katana,because the wing is so close the shape of Edge with allmost a straight leading edge on the wing,hope it flys close the Edge 540.You dont want to know what i think of Extras..LOL.,,i dont use normal switchs in my planes,,i use the Fromeco pin switchs,,if they fail, they fail in the on position,,i just hate the though of loseing a plane to a switch,,i know how you feel about that.

NdFrSpeed

diamondave

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yeh i love yaks, i only got this comp extra because a guy in my club gave me a deal i could not refuse, however i do like it i must say, but i absolutely prefer yaks, had the ef 68" one with a glow motor, then the am, now sd 30%, i am sure if i didnt lose it i would be loving that one, just coulndt pass up the deal on the extra though, what do you run in the 35% plane? motorwise

NdFrSpeed

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I'm kind of sold on 3W-106's,,they have monster power,,but there all good,,i have the CS in one plane an SS motor in the other..DA's are really good to,,just not quite as much power,but there really smooth engines,,i just prefer the 3W's.


NdFrSpeed

rideblue

Ok I still havent got any help on my ??? I have just bought a YS 140 sport and am wondering if anyone has used to pressurized system to push the smoke in a pumpless system I know a lot of ppl use exhaust pressure to get the fluid moving but if im not mistaken I should get more fluid going to the muffler using the system has anyone tried this and if so does it work I asked the Ys club and no one answered me so Im going to the smoke pros thanks guys...

diamondave

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dont know myself, sorry

diamondave

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there is a guy in my club with a 3w106 on his 2.6 extra, seems to fly that around pretty good, i am hooked on zdz 80, i think its a great engine for the size, so i guess the 33% sd yak would be the one for a motor like that, its a bigger price jump to the twins, and the planes for them

deckerv

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I have a TME in my Christen Eagle.. and I only had one problem with it so far. It just stopped working all of a sudden, but if you turned it on and back off, you could hear a very faint click. My smoke pump was one of the original ones you 'cant' rebuild, so I ended up drilling out the rivits holding it together to get to the gears. Turns out there was a VERY tiny piece of plastic jammed in the gears. Took it out, put it back together with 4-40 bolts, and it works like a charm again

I gotta try a windshield wiper pump like you mentioned Minn.. that's such an awesome find!!