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    AVATARS...PG-13 Please

    Give him one of these instead to clean up that avatar....
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    Engine Gurus Unite -> I need HELP!

    Also something to check because it affects crank pressure is the seals on the ball bearings. They can deform and loose their sealing effect typically from heat from the engine.
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    Applied Gasoline Engine Systems for RC.

    Great Alky6!! About 14.2:1 at sea level. Valve systems a must! Rotary or Reed. A++ for you today!
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    Engine Gurus Unite -> I need HELP!

    Hey Bob. Do not waste a good bowman ring on it. I did see someone recommended a new cylinder. I would get a new piston and cylinder for the new bowman ring. They are cheap and you basically have a new engine to break in. You simply have a worn out power pack. The tolerances on the cylinder and...
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    Applied Gasoline Engine Systems for RC.

    Great yakken! "Stinking Air". We can add this to "Exhaust System" when the time is right. Certainly after beer and pickled egg consumption. Now let's address Capt.Roll's input... Great Capt.Roll! Air heads are most important. We can later add them to "Safety Systems". Now some one else get...
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    Applied Gasoline Engine Systems for RC.

    Great 1932! But lets not get ahead of ourselves....Lets get this AIR part all figured out first and all the systems involving air that affect the engine. Then we will move forward as long as others get in here and help too!
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    Engine Gurus Unite -> I need HELP!

    About time you made it over here.
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    Applied Gasoline Engine Systems for RC.

    A most important fact!! Mike. So now we ad the 2)Life support system under Air.
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    Telemetry Usefullness

    Once I do get temp telemetry up it will be the actual alert to let me know when to fly out or land. Like the old saying ; "ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure".
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    What beer ya drinking tonight?

    I am still drinking coffee and posting nerdish threads in the gas engine forums:woohoo!:
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    Air in & air out- lets keep engine's cool

    See if I can find it.....Do not have it on the computer any longer but if you want you can go to page 253 of the Extreme Flight 104 extra thread at that other site FG and start there. Many pics posted . I do not patron that site any longer.
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    Applied Gasoline Engine Systems for RC.

    Ok! We have a start. Thanks Alky. Lets descend to ground school and break it down to the basics to get that prop turning. Air, Fuel, Ignition and control...... Air- Induction and Cooling. Fuel- Gasoline and oil. Ignition- Spark. Control- Radio. Lets take air and see what we need to do...
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    Chinas Hobby Exports.

    Pilot RC is top notch. I have flown several even when they used to be foamies if you know what I mean.
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    DA 120 brass and fuel tubing ID size 1/8 or 5/32?

    Did somebody mention a golf ball and garden hose?
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    Applied Gasoline Engine Systems for RC.

    Just as I expected........ Chirp Chirp Chirp Chirp Chirp Chirp Chirp Chirp Chirp Chirp Chirp Chirp Chirp Chirp Chirp Chirp Chirp Chirp Chirp Chirp Chirp Chirp Chirp Chirp Chirp Chirp Chirp Chirp Chirp..
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    Engine Gurus Unite -> I need HELP!

    How is it said???? Oh ya....Keep a good one all your life so you avoid all that strife.
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    Engine Gurus Unite -> I need HELP!

    Hmn....You much rather hear about my demise? OK I'll play.:lol2:Once upon a time in a land far far away a share croppers child would have his own son. :big_yes:. Little did the share cropper know how brilliant and awesome his son would become:spongebob:. The son one day decided to take a wife...
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    Engine Gurus Unite -> I need HELP!

    No cheeseburger is worth a damn without buns.
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    Applied Gasoline Engine Systems for RC.

    No engines for dummies stuff just some simple understanding of our beloved or hated reciprocating novelties. I would like the participation of every ones input and that we use the forum to collectively show all the basic systems required to achieve performance minded flight as it relates to the...
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    Engine Gurus Unite -> I need HELP!

    Basically it sums up my rags to riches to rags life story. Most complicated mechanical device known to man...
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