Wednesday, March 21, 2018

I got a haircut an an engine.

Before going flying I went across the street for a haircut. The retired barber used to fly models but is getting rid of them. He found an engine in the pile of stuff and saved it for me. An older O.S. .30 r/c engine. The carb. is broken but I had a c/l venturi that fit. I put a few drops of alcohol in the engine and it loosened up nicely. I put a propeller on and clamped it on the saw horse engine running stand. It started after I got the right needle valve setting and ran well. Then I took the Fox .35 off one of the Twisters and installed the O.S. in the nose. As of now it's ready to fly but I still need to use up the batteries as the wind was blowing into the sun and I left after two flights.

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