Friday, April 29, 2022

New power for the Twister.

A long time ago, probably 2005, I bought 3 OS .40LA engines off ebay. I messed with them for a while and then switched to the .46LA. I had a lot better luck getting the .46 to run right. I collected several .46's and found that the .40 and .46 shared some of the same parts. I ordered the missing parts from O.S. Engines in Japan and took the rest from the .40 engines and made three more .46's. About 10 years have passed since then. I was looking at the .40's the other day and went to ebay to see if I could find enough parts to build a running .40 engine. I found what I needed, a crankshaft, from a vendor in Minneapolis. Then I contacted him and inquired about other parts I didn't see on his site. He replied that he had them in stock. He made up and order for me to buy through ebay. Reasonable prices and free shipping. I ordered them and a second crankshaft. The first crankshaft came in yesterday and I assembled one of the .40's put it on the test stand and ran it to see how it liked it's new parts. I installed it in the Twister and it's ready for action. The third engine has broken mounting hole and can be made usable if need be but for now it's just sitting. I was flying at the park a few days ago and a bird almost made it through the circle. I felt the lines pull and the plane twitched as the bird hit the lines. I figured the bird would be dead but I couldn't find anything, not even a feather. Hitting a bird is a first for me.

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