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So they don't break cranks in that application? Listening to stories of what Combat was like in the 1970s is quite entertaining, quite a few have to do with how strong G21/35s ran until... and the cranks were hard to get. They were really pushing those things hard, too - wide open venturi, bladder tanks, nitro...

Wonder if anyone's tried putting a carb on a Nelson .36 other than the CL Carrier people. Probably scare the daylights out of everyone at the field.

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Supposedly the only engines that ever had tolerances tight enough that you could pick a random cylinder and a random piston out of the bins and get a perfect fit every time was Cox. That was one of their secrets for producing millions of engines while keeping costs down, staying in the CL plastic RTF toy business long after their competitors gave up. For every other engine, inlcuding Nelsons, you had to hand-match pistons and liners (Henry does/did that himself, employees handled other tasks). One "speed trick" racers used was to buy several examples of an engine, then pick and choose the parts that fit the best. So I'n not surprised at all if Chinese pistons and piston rings aren't an exact fit for Italian liners that were made years previously, even if the exact same equipment was used.

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