bought this engine in a grab bag full of goodies. on the sides it says "arden" and on the back either 099 or 660. it has a clear fuel bowl on the bottom and a moveable lever behind the prop and another just above the fuel bowl. it also has what looks like a tiny spark plug. i would like to see if this thing runs. any ideas?
thanks all

You have a "classic" there. Arden .099. The lever behind the prop is to adjust the spark timing, (when the spark happens before top dead center of the piston). It will need the rest of the ignition stuff to run. There a few web sites out there to tell you more about it.

Nice Find!!!!!

Ken

Agree with kenh3497 , you have real classic here. A picture of what it look like with ingnition parts and a bit of history about Ray Arden who gave us the modern glow plug:


http://www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/arden.htm

Don't think that this setup will work, since the condenser is missing his ground connection...

Regards,

Holm

Actually the condensor is connected to ground or common through the engine's backplate mounting screw that goes through the firewall.
They should have shown the booster battery used to get it started as well. They usually used a larger booster battery to hook up in parallel with the onboard two penlight battery cells, for starting the engine. Once started they disconnected the larger booster battery pack.

I am the proud owner of an .099 Arden Glow Engine and was the owner of a .19 Arden Glow Engine until it mysteriously disappeared from my shop many years ago. It seemed they started every time on the first flip of the prop. I only used one in a U/C plane thought a free flight would have been a great use but I was afraid of losing them! Super articles ... thanks for posting them!
Leo

actually got this thing running with a glow plug. heres a short video.


http://s174.photobucket.com/albums/w...nt=MyMovie.mp4

What a blast from the past, I bought a Arden .099 must have been about 1947 or so. Flew it in a little free flight model for a while, complete with coil, condensor (capacitor to you young fellows) and two AA cells. It did not have a needle valve but relied on varying the air intake for mixture control with the little lever you can see in the video. I bought a glow plug about 1948 and put the coil and stuff in the drawer where I believe it still resides. The engine powered the first RC plane I built about 1954, a Jasco Electra. Complete with single hard tube receiver, Sigma 4F relay, and a Babcock rubber powered escapement. I considered a successful flight was one where I landed on the same 50 acre field that I launched it from. Great to see that old engine again............RJ