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I am about to start my engine for the first time, once I get a fuel pipe. How do I start it????

I have a glow thingie that i can put on top of the engine??

And how to I connect the 3 pipes from the tank to the engine and muffler????

I hope someone can give me a detailed description, since this is my first time starting this monster

Hey therealdreamer8

Do you have a local RC club near you? Best advise I can give Is to find help from a RC club in your location For there Is alot to learn. Or talk to the folks at the hobby shop in your are. Best of luck.

Doug

There 'usta be some books available..."Getting Started
In R/C"....you can learn the basics very quickly...but try
to get some help if you can. These things can be a little
frustrating, and even danderous if not done correctly. :eek:

First you gotta make some meth. Get you a big pickle jar with a screw on lid and poke a long pipe into it. The pipe should look like a pigs' tail with the same number of turns. This is important. It's worth a walk to the sty to get it right. Don't forget your hands fer ciphering. Then get you some irish spuds and spanish corn and cuban sugar mix well with your favorite beverage in the pickle jar. Then get you some chair legs or the like and build you a fire in the sink or the tub and cook the mash collecting the dropings from the end of the tube. Sample one pint, and if you just get drunk, add some wood, maybe from the table or something. Don't use balsa cause then you can't fly. If you get blind drunk or dead drunk then the extra wood ain't necessary and you're ready to put some in your fuel pipe. Ifn it don't combust to your liking, get you some clover and finely dice it, this will add nitro. That's what pappy always said. How much is strictly a matter of taste. Ifn it sears your lungs and fries your eyebrows it's probably close. Go to SnuffySmith.com ifn you aint sure. Next, you gotta get that prop sharp so it'll cut the air as easily as your skin. Use a straight razor for comparison slices. I use the backs of my knuckles cause they toughend up from fightin with my sister/aunt Sally and from dragging long the ground etc. Then take that glow thingie and screw it into the coonpeter looking thingie and press it to your tounge. Ifn it blisters up right nice your good to go, if not, acetylene torches work too. You gotta be flexible cause nothin is written in stone since most of us caint read nohow. Now don't go usen the tounge test with them torches, you gotta use a licka sense from time to time. Next, get aholt of that engine in your left hand, ifn you wipe thats the one you don't wipe with, and stick the tank twixt your cheek an gum, I don't recommend holdin the engine twixt your legs for obvious reasons, but cousin billy did an that joker sure can sing now like a warbler crossed with Tiny Tim, he's a local boy made good, Tiny not billy, billy's bout nocount but that's another story, that boy aint been the same since RC. That's remote, not Cola, ifn english aint your strong point being from yonder an all. It aint your fault, I reckon, no moren your parents are. But anyways flip that there prop round an round with the hand that aint holdin the engine an do some squats to get the tank flowin proper an all, all in the same time as your flappin your arms to coordinate proper floppin an all, but not in the cucumber patch, least ways not with out 20 percent castor for obvious reasons, lessen your hemroids don't sting as much or moren mine do, but ifn you use it you obviously gotta clean it up after, I generally just use my sock ifn I got one on, or my sleve or even a slow runnin rabbit, whatevers handy. Anywho, good luck, an pay attention now ya hear?

Grazzhopper, I'll come back to this later after I wipe the tears out of my eyes from laughing so hard. Haven't gotten past the third line yet. Starting to get stomach cramps too!! Best damn answer to a thread I've heard in years. Thanks for a great laugh this morning!!

Hmmmm....

I should try that some time...

Well ok, that was ur version of doing it - could u tell me how to REALLY do it now???? ;)

BWAAA.HAAA.HAAA(wipe tear}BWAA.HAAA.HAAA!!!

now think of the poor guy "over yonder"(or anyone up north for that matter)trying to understand our native language!

grazzhopper: You are living proof that you can get high on R C Colas & Moon Pies!!!!!!!!!!! >>>>>>>>>>big max 1935

Well apparently SOMEONE has to come in on a white charger and help this poor soul... :D Someone wanna pass dat jug? and then lissen' up you turkeys....

Assuming you have a plastic fuel tank with the flexible tubing and weight for the pickup ....

Hook up the pickup to the carbeurator nipple. Hook the muffler pressure nipple up to one of the two filler tubes on the tank. Use a small plug in a short length of tubing to seal off the third tank filler tube.

In fact for test running you don't even need the muffler tube or seal. Just use one tube from the tank pickup to the carb.

The tank needs to be mounted so the top is level with the needle valve. And keep it within 3 inches of the engine.

If it's a larger engine then I suggest a very heavy leather glove for your fingers since it sounds like you don't have a starter or chicken stick. And if it's a plastic prop use some fine sandpaper to remove and lightly smooth the razor sharp mold lines on the leading and trailing edges of the blades. Set the prop on the engine so that you can get a good flip on it so the prop snaps over the compression as your hand is sliding off and out of the way. I like to set mine for right handed flipping so the compression is just felt as the prop is at the 3:30 and 10:30 clock positions. Lefties can fill in their preffered position but I'd say 12 and 6 would be a good starting (ooooo, bad pun) position.

The battery needs to be a good strong large Nicad or some other supply with a high current 1 1/2 volt supply. Don't use higher voltage or it WILL blow the plug. An alkaline D cell in a holder words quite well and will last for a few weekends. Take the plug out of the engine and hook it up to check. It should glow with a nice red to orange light over most of the little coil in the opeing. If it's just a dull red over a small part then the battery is too weak. If you're using the D battery I guess you will need a second one in PARALLEL. Note that this means you would need to put the two positive ends onto one wire and the two flat ends on the other. All battery holders put them into series so this is no good. Get two single cell holders and wire them as I've described or modify a two cell holder.

When you're closing the needle all the way in to start the setting go easy. The needle is a tapered pin going into an opening like a wedge. It's easy to damage the seat if you don't use a light touch. Screw the needle in and feel for the tension to change slightly. That little change is the closing point. DO NOT GO FURTHER. Open it from there as per your instructions that came with the engine.

Filll the tank, open the throttle to high, open the needle to what your instructions suggest for starting, choke the carb with a finger and pull the prop through a few times to fill the line and suck some fuel into the case. Pull through 3 times after the line fills. Remove your choking finger and flip the engine hard about 4 or 5 times to send the prime up into the cylinder. Now return the throttle to idle or just a touch open and hook up the battery to the plug. Now flip the prop with a good fast carry through. You need to flip hard to carry the prop through the compression and then sweep your arm out of the way. Pause for a moment in case the engine fires and then return your hand to flip again. Don't forget the pause. It's really embarrasing to put your fingers back into the engine when it's running :D

If it seems wet and you can hear a hiss from inside it's flooded. Wait a couple of seconds and then flip again. Keep doing this for 3 or 4 times to clear the flood. If it stays flooded then close the needle valve 1 turn and keep trying to clear the flood until it catches and runs. If it doesn't pop or kick back at your finger after a few flips then disconnect the glow plug and open the needle 1/2 turn and do the choke and 3 pull throughs again. Connect the plug and try again.

That's the basics. Modify then a little as it seems to need.

Well thash abou' it....... pash th' jug agin' boys..... Ah'm a gettin' parsh'ed o'er here.......... <HIC>..... AND STOP DAT BANJO PLAYIN'!!!!

GOOD FORM Mr. MATTHEWS

MATTHEWS MATTHEWS HE'S OUR MAN IF HE CAN'T HELP YA NO ONE CAN :D

Dang, Mr Mathews, thats practically exactly the way pappy described the birds and the bees to me just afore the revenooers took him away. We swore we was just cookin up some meth, but they wouldn't listen, and that judge was downright hateful after cousin JeffRo tole him bout his purty lips. Anyways I see you is a ferner too, so I'll leave you two to parlay, but I did wanna mention we use our pickups a little differently down heah, an I sure wouldn't hook mine up to no nipple I was wantin to tweak again. Anyhow, weuns aint all city slickin sophisticates like Al Bundy offen the TV picture show, some of us down heah in the holler is just regular folks. Reckon I'll mosey on down to the coal mines an see ifn theys hirin after the cave in last week. Choppin cotten is hard on the brain after a spell...

Hopefully you have Ground Hogs in Denmark. If he sees his shadow, you should wait 6 more weeks before you start it.

Nobody mentioned it - but be sure you have your engine well mounted in a test stand, or in an aircraft that is tied down. You should have start up and break-in instructions with your engine - if not, contact the manufacturer or email me with the type of engine you have and I'll see what I can do.

Don't mind the humor of some of these clowns, they are really nice people. Some have been sipping too much Methanol tho!

Phil

THanks BMatthews, sounds like I got a lot of preparing to do now..... i'll be back if it doesn't work......

yea....too much meathanphetimines

That ole boy been eatin too many onions.

ya,,,we just funnin..hee...hee

To start your engine take these steps:
1 GO LOCATE A LOCAL CLUB AND GET HELP.
2 GO BACK TO STEP 1
Failure to follow these steps COULD result in serious personal injury. They will show you how to setup, adjust and run your engine.

Hi!
From a fellow scandinavian.....You ain't joking are you???
Du skojar inte????
You really want help to start your engine!
Vill du verkligen ha hjälp att starta din motor???

Hälsningar!
Jan K
Sweden