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Outrider6, good luck with your new build, and welcome to the Brotherhood. Yes, the hobby has drastically changed. There are times when I go to our field and there are a dozen pilots and no glow, or gas. I would even say that there are more pilots with 30cc and up gassers than there are glow planes. We also have a good number of turbine jet pilots.

acdii

I'm the only one at my field still flying glow.

Outrider6

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Breaking in my little Saito .40 on my driveway was so much fun. Hearing that little jewel purr was sweet music. And I started using Omega as after shave again.

Speaking of glow fuel, I had no idea it would be somewhat challenging to get these days (especially during this pandemic junk). Then the other day, I was researching making my own fuel. I nixed that idea when I found out how much it would cost me to mix it up myself. Grrrrrrrrr.

We need to keep this hobby alive. I will do my part, as best I can.

acdii

Byron fuels are no more too.

Outrider6

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Not sure which sub-forum is best for my question, so since this thread is about SIG's, I thought I would ask here:

Has anyone ever put a 4-stroke in a SIG Kougar? I am thinking of building one next, and I have always been very partial to 4-strokes. I would not be going for all out speed with this plane, but rather general sport flying. I am concerned about prop clearance, since I would probably put a Saito 62 in it. I am also thinking of modifying the kit to be a taildragger. I know I could make taller landing gear, in either case, but I wouldn't want to have to make it extremely tall and look stupid. I built a King Cobra way back when, and made it a taildragger, but I was using a 2-stroke engine then.

I guess one other option to keep prop diameter down would be to use a 3-blade prop.

Just wondering if anyone has ever done this, and how you got around the prop diameter issue.

acdii

Yeah, a friend of mine did. Thats the plane that looks like a jet with the red white and blue and stars and stuff right? Foam core wing, swept back a little bit. He put an OS 52 on it.

Outrider6

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Yep - that's the plane. Having only a 52 would help with the prop diameter. I have always read that those planes are a little heavy for their size (probably because of the foam wing), so I would be afraid that a 52 wouldn't have enough power. I do enjoy unlimited vertical.

Captcrunch44

Got to fly my alien aircraft arrow master from Sig.
what a great plane to fly and build. Ranks up there with the Hog Bipe.

FlyerInOKC

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Congrats Cap! Great looking airplane too!

Captcrunch44

Yeah I also got to maiden my Sig wonder, highly recommend contrasting colors top and bottom.

skylark-flier

Both are REALLY nice planes. Well done!!!!

Do I detect a bit of a color/trim change in the works for the Wonder?

soarrich

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Great looking planes.
I hope the other color for the Sky Blue Wonder isn't Cloud White.

Captcrunch44

nope top looks like the bottom or the bottom looks like the top.

soarrich

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Symmetrical color schemes are plane breakers. I almost lost my Hobie Hawk from that, at a distance you can't tell if it's leaning toward you or away from you, and if you're low and guess wrong you're in trouble.

I like the funny noise make you have on the front. I love the smell of Nitro in the morning.

acdii

He enjoys the challenge. His pilots OTOH, do not, they leap from the plane while in flight, then the cows snack on them.

Flyboywbl

Maiden flight of my Four Star 120 quarantine build was a success. It took 20 days to build/cover. I used the left over BBD decals from my TF-P51 ARF I glassed and painted. The checkers are all hand cut. The NGH 30 cc runs like garbage unfortunately. After takeoff the engine started sputtering and I landed to find that there were air bubbles in the fuel line. I thought it might be my setup but after swapping out the tank and all the fuel lines, there are still bubbles. On closer inspection, the bubbles are coming out of the carb and into the fuel line. I'm thinking I might have a leak in the carb. Oh well, you get what you pay for. I should of went with the Saito 30cc gasser.

I hope everyone is safe, healthy, and getting some good flying in!

-Matt

acdii

If that is anything like the 38, check the pulse lines between the crank and intake, then might be backwards. One line provides crank vacuum, the other pulses the carb pump. On the 38 the center line from the crank goes to vacuum, the bottom goes to the pump port. It might be pumping into the intake instead.

Flyboywbl

the 30cc only has one line

Flight Risk

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It's difficult for me to visualize how bubbles could backup from the carb, but if there are actually bubbles coming from the carb, it could mean there is a backflow of air, possibly from the intake valve not closing completely. Looking at the photo it seems you have a red fuel filter near the carb. Is it possible for bubbles to form there? and you might even try putting a one-way valve near the carb.. If you continue with problems you might post on the gas engine forum.

Flyboywbl

that’s where I saw them coming from originally. I replaced the line without a filter and the bubbles were still coming out of the brass carb nipple onto the fuel line.

ive never seen this before

Outrider6

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Here is my 1/6 Clipped Wing Cub, finished. The first flight was not non-eventful, but it shall fly again. Lesson learned that I should have gotten my feet wet again on building, on a much simpler plane. I had forgotten much in 15 years of not building balsa models.



Saito .40

FlyerInOKC

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Great looking Cub! Here is mine on display at a Civil Air Patrol meeting.

skylark-flier

That's a NICE Cub. Hope the "incident" wasn't too damaging.

Outrider6

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After recently finishing my 1/6 Clipped Wing Cub, I am about to start building a Somethin' Extra.

That would have begun last week, but because of a USPS huge debacle, it was delayed and will begin tomorrow or Monday, when my replacement kit arrives. Regarding the debacle, I ordered the SSE from Graves Hobbies in Orlando, FL, which is about an 8 hour drive from me. Shipments normally arrive in 2 days, with Priority Mail. When I initially ordered the SSE, it took 9 days to get to me, after leaving Graves. 9 days for an 8 hour drive. Then it looked like a mail truck drove over one end of the box. Major balsa damage inside (both fuselage sides severely broken). After several days of emailing back and forth with Graves, they filed a claim and shipped me a replacement kit, which is what should arrive very soon. I may have to give the damaged kit to USPS after they work out what will be done about the claim, or I may have a box full of a bunch of spare kit parts. Rarely does a month ever go by when I don't have some big problem or file a claim with USPS over lost mail. Their customer service is horrendous, as it seems that they are not accountable to anyone, being part of the government. Their tracking system is a sick joke, and the tracking for the damaged box showed for 7 days that they didn't even have possession of the package. Then it shows up in Atlanta and bounces around from location to location in the area for 2 days before finally arriving to me, 30 miles north of Atlanta. USPS is a bunch of idiotic red tape morons (with a few good employees thrown in here & there). That was my USPS rant.

Back on topic, I am looking forward to building this plane. I built one when they first came out, many years ago. I have researched and studied many threads here about building them, modifications, improvements, etc., and have made a list of what I will do. I will be lightening it some, enlarging and counterbalancing the elevator and rudder, and have already gotten a Kadet landing gear for it, which is taller (needed) and wider (not needed). I will soon be ordering a Saito 62 for it. It will be my "daily flier", knock-around plane.

Just trying to do my part to help keep kit manufacturers in business.

acdii

That reminds me, I need to fix the canopy on my ARF SSE, it keeps popping off in flight.

As far as USPS goes, I have a similar one from the beginning of July. I had sold my travel trailer and did the transaction through an Escrow service. Everything went great until they sent the money and documents to my bank, via USPS Priority mail. It was sent June 29th, sat in California for 11 days and was delivered to another California city. The address for the bank is in Omaha Nebraska. The bank finally got it, but instead of in just a few days, WHICH IS WHY I USED ESCROW! it took several weeks, all because of USPS. The buyer still doesn't have the title yet which they would have by now had the mail reached the bank in the 2 days promised.

Buyer had cash, but it would take up to 15 days before the bank could release the money before I could wire transfer it to the lien holder.