the Wasp

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my New Calipers

Glowgeek

Very nice Jim

the Wasp

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you better be careful, cause the Sthil may not mix with Methanol

Jim

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thank you, you should see my old ones, you can drop them once and get away with it, but drop them again and they may never work again LOL

Jim

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gee guys, what am I going to do with this engine ???? ?

I have this (never mounted/never started) BH Hanson port modified G20, I bought it new for a Heli (Century Radical 20), I have about $560 in it and I tried selling it on RC Groups for $425 shipped, not even an offer. I have the Heli carb and plane carb and a glow plug adapter too. it is a side carb and side muffler engine, so it wont fit some planes unless you cut up the cowl a lot.. what am I going to do with it ?????


Jim

Rudolph Hart

I got a good idea jim you could send those pink face dial calipers to OKC they'd look pretty next to the plane you reckon? that reminds me okey has said in many previous posts that he'll take any smelly two strokes for free! if you pay the postage, he may be running something like an old ex racehorse knackery yard or a mangy dog pound for two strokes where everything gets recycled. I think he's said here before he's pretty green.

Hobbsy

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Typical with plastic arm.

Also, do the LS adjustments with the HS needle at full peak, the HS needle seat is fixed, (doesn't move), so that eliminates one variable. When satisfied with the idle and transition, adjust HS needle for you favorite amount of richness.

Glowgeek

Dave, I adjust the hsn rich from peak to do my lsn adjustments. Why would we want the hsn adjusted different than where we fly them while we adjust the lsn?

Hobbsy

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No biggy, we both get what we're after. I use a different way, I set the engine 100 rpm rich with the tank at 50%, to me 300 rpm rich is too rich. The four stroke will always have oil in the crankcase no matter how lean it is set. But I only use 18% lube. At 12% there might be danger from a lean mixture.

Glowgeek

Thanks Dave, just making sure I wasn't missing something.

I have found that the hsn can effect idle minutely if moved too far from optimal flying mixture. Fine tuning of the hsn has to be done while flying at the field of course and for the most part the lsn has to be readjusted thereafter. It all comes out of the wash once you get them off the bench and in the air.

Jesse Open

At 14% oil with 2% of that being castor there is plenty of latitude from what I have seen.

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Hobbsy

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Except when using a regulator, you can set the tank on the floor while setting up the carb and nothing will change when the engine is installed in the plane.

Glowgeek

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FlyerInOKC

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In my defense most of the 2 cycle engines I have are below a .35. he last batch of 2 cycles I got alas were so corroded neither myself and the 2 best engine resurrections I know could save them. They were buried with full honors due to the years of service. We preserve 2 cycles because frankly one day it maybe impossible to find them to use. We try to pass them along to guys starting out or building on the cheap like the three of us. The way you guys renew old abused Saitos I think sometimes this thread show change it's name to "The Saito Preservation Society"!

Now I have a funny story. For the last week I have been trying to find a piece of red/white Checkerboard covering I had secured from one of my friends for the the tail of the the Pink' N Poke.I knew I had put it someplace safe and easy to find but handy for when I was ready to use it but no dice. The covering had been carried away by evil Ogawa Seiki spirits or been sucked into a spontaneous forming black hole. I was looking into to ordering a roll of covering film (the vendor didn't have the right size squares) when I decided to straighten up the build closet and hopefully find the missing covering. Well long story short I happen to pick up a rolled up piece of paper which I thought was a cut piece from a plan when it unrolled. ***! The paper was the backing of the red/white Checkerboard Ultracote. (Insert banging head into brick wall emote here) I can't use it yet I still have some work to do on Pinky and the Monokote has to go on first. It seems from pass experience you can put Ultracote/Oracote/Sig Koverall over Monokote successfully but not the reverse is bad juju. I have since rolled the covering with the checkerboard facing out.

Glowgeek

If you're interested in small glow engines I have a dozen or so ranging from .010 to .35. Cox, Cub, OS and the like. A couple have never been run. PM me.

Lost & Found:

I always found lost items in exactly the same place ; The last place I looked.

acdii

Hmm Mitutoyo sounds like a Japanese brand, but made in Brazil..... This place needs more moji.

Whats that place to get bearings from again? I think I should order a set for that .72 that is howling. They feel smooth, but howl when running.

Captcrunch44

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Jesse Open

If you want name brand bearings of known standards, this place is great. Not cheap, but you know what you are getting.

https://www.motionindustries.com

Glowgeek

Dave, I wouldn't mind at all if you would elaborate on that. I'm sure I'm missing something.

Hobbsy

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It's very simple, when you use a Cline or IronBay regulator, the mixture will not change when you install the engine in a plane, in fact almost nothing will caused it to change. That's why I like them. I've experimented and placed a tank 30" away and 6" low and the engine does not notice.

I can boil it down to, the engine always thinks the tank is only .75" away.

Hobbsy

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Three throttle arms and two velocity stacks headed your way tomorrow.