I have two Tower 75s, great engines. The new one is going into a plane that doesn't lend itself to using the remote needle valve. It looks to me like I can unscrew the round plug on the carb and install the NV there, as long as the threads and length work ok to allow normal richening/leaning.

Anybody out there that has done this? I tried to ask Tower, and some girl asked a fellow in support, and I got the standard CYA "they don't recommend it". I told the gal I had been running these little things for 60 years and have learned not to stick my fingers in the prop, so I wasn't asking James "to recommend it", just "will it work"? She had a great sense of humor and did her best to get an answer. But couldn't.

I can always mount it on the bench and find out for myself if it will work, but it is easier to ask here on RCU with lots of experienced guys out there to help.

Clair

The answer is yes it will work just fine.

....yep.

Dave, is that a stock muffler gasket in the photo? It "looks" to be aluminum and home made but maybe it's just the photo.

You must have the digital camera/photos into RCU posts down to a science. Your's are always of pro quality. Do you have a macro setting on that camera?

Thanks,

Ernie

Ernie....that is the stock Tower .75 gasket. Like any other exhaust gasket
they don't hold up in operation. The first one I used just got pounded, and
the bolts came loose. The gasket was all beat up. I don't use exhaust gaskets
anymore, not the fiber kind either....just a thin coat of high temp silicon.

Thanks for the compliment on the pictures. I use a lot of pictures to illustrate
instructions and stuff....it is easier than trying to explain everything over the
Internet. I use an older Sony camera with a good macro. It is only a 1.2
megapixel camera, but the macro is better than my 4.0 megapixel. The old
Sony uses a floppy disc. I just take the shot, pop the floppy in the pc, and click
it right into the post without having to download the picture into the pc.

I can take a picture and have it on the site in about a minute.

>>Edit....here's the old Beast, I got my money's worth out of this one,
same one I had up at Flaming Gourge.

Thanks, guys.....it is as I suspected, ok to move the NV to the carb. Lots quicker than having to bench run it right now to find out for myself! You guys are good! (Including the photography, Flyboy Dave!)

Clair

>>> The old Sony uses a floppy disc. I just take the shot, pop the floppy in the pc, and click
it right into the post without having to download the picture into the pc. >>>

I like the sound of that Dave. I didn't know you could do it without downloading the picture first. Most of these photos you wouldn't want to save anyway. See any reason it wouldn't work with cameras that use a memory card and just popping the card into a reader slot that my puter has?

You just pop the floppy in, write your post, and click on "image" above this box we write in?

Thanks Dave,

Ernie

I would think it works the same as the newer towers, where you insert
the memory stick. New pc's don't even have a floppy drive anymore, everything
is loaded with CD's these days. I keep fixing this pc rather than putting a new
one on line....it's just handy for me because of the pictures I post.

The old beast takes videos too, but no sound. I still have open the floppy
disc by clicking....start, my computer, floppy drive,....then in the post, click
on "Click here to upload images and filers....then browse, floppy disc, and then
on the image I want to upload into the post, then ok, and ok. It takes about 10
seconds to do it, a couple minutes to describe it.

FBD.