Back to square one.

I had trouble with the heater in the hot rod. I figured it was a weak vacuum signal and couldn't get the carb. port to do it's job. I put the car under the overhang I built and put the El Camino in the garage. I went out today tofix the vacuum problem and the hot rod was wet. I put a fitting into the manifold and ran the heater vacuum line to it. It took some doing to start the car but it started and the heater worked. I drove it out and took the El Camino out and put it in the third stall and the hot rod in its stall. I warmed it up real good to cook off the water. The Saturn is back outside.
I loaded up the rebuilt plane with the $20.00 engine and went to the dog track. It rained on the way but not when I got there. On the second flight it was a light sprinkle. On the third flight it was raining. I packed up and headed home quite wet. It has been raining on and off all day. It should stop early tomorrow. I'm getting ready for the Gil's contest.

Fun across the street.

When we got home from the street rod show Sun. there were people digging holes around a property line across the street. There has been a feud over the house owners parking on the barn owners property all summer. 3 times police came and had the house owners move their cars off the others property. A few weeks age the barn owner dug a line from the road towards the river. Now he has had a black chain link fence erected parallel to the road and down the big dig along the property line. The barn owner also owns a rental property on the other side of the barn and also bought and rebuilt the house is question after it burned many years ago. The present owners of the house were tenants of his until the house went up for sale and they bought it. There is some kind of problem of how they moved out of the apartment that is fueling this argument. The house owners have kept me awake until 4 a.m. several times this past summer so I root for the barn owner.

3 for 4 on ebay.

We had 4 things on ebay that ended today. 3 sold and one got re listed. No money as 2 went for $.99 and the other wasn't mine. I went to the dog track today too and got in 4 flights. Still tuning the engine, I put on another tank and still couldn't get the lap times in the range I wanted. I tried some maneuvers anyway and found that the plane flies quite well at the slower lap speeds. The engine picks up and keeps the plane flying in maneuvers. I was happy with the way it went.
The day started by getting up at 3 am. A trip to the airport and breakfast at Denny's at 5. They should change their name back to Sambo's.

Street Rod show.

We spent Fri. and Sat. in Burlington, VT. It's our yearly trek to the street rod show there with our rod. The weather was great and I didn't get any prizes so we headed home early Sun. morning. Instead of the usual ride down rte. 91 into Springfield, MA we stayed on 89 into Concord, NH. The roads are smoother and we didn't hit as much continuous traffic which is the case on 91 from central MA to Hartford or down the Mass pike to Auburn,MA. I always figured it was shorter but never proved it until today. 10 miles less. I did close to 70 all the way so I made up for the gas saving shorter mileage. The weather at home is great also.

Boned in Rhode Island.

We took a ride to Jamestown today and took in the sights at Beavertail. Nice day a little windy a good day for what I thought to be topless sun bathing. I came across a couple kinda hidden but not quite. I didn't bother them and we went around further down the shore line. Still in sight and now heavily engaged the couple were enjoying the day under a blanket.
We took a detour through the downtown area on the way out and followed the signs for the mainland. Balls. Two dollars later I was headed for Newport. Turned around and two dollars later we are headed for the mainland. RI signage sucks.
We stopped at a Dunkin Donuts for a snack and then waited in line at a Hess station for cheap gas. One of us didn't want to wait so we headed home. $.30 a gallon more at home. Balls.
I figured I would mold a leading edge for the new kit I'm building. I had bought some balsa and it looked good and should bend after soaking in water. Nope. I got another piece soaking now. The fuselage is a profile and it has a lot of wood in back of the wing. I checked the plans for another model that has the fuse. cored out and did the same to this one. This mod. I'm not worried about as it worked on the other model. I'll put in a frame and sheet it with 1/16" balsa, after it dries out.

Hard work.

I finally washed the motorcycle this afternoon. It was filthy not being used this season. I had a battery charger on it while I cleaned it and tried to get it running. It took about a half hour of squirting gas in the carb. and kicking before it started. Then it ran out of gas. I put a gallon in it and ran it some more around the yard. The carb. isn't quite right yet but it runs above 1000 rpm. The idle needs some running time to get cleaned out.
The house across the street is getting cleaned up but slowly. The owner had to have his brother evicted as the house was being trashed slowly. It's a mess but looking better.

Test run.

I just finished the test on the K&B engine and it went well. It held a steady 10200 rpm and was a little rich with an 11x4 APC prop. It got one minute 15 seconds per ounce of fuel which should give me enough to do the entire AMA pattern. I'll have to bring it along next time I fly the Twister.
There is some method to my engine swapping madness. 40 size engines can use .015 size lines. Larger engines need .018 lines. This creates extra work to fly the different size engines on the same outing. I only have two planes with bigger than .40 engines, the Ringmaster 576 and the P-51. I can take those together and use the same lines thereby saving time and energy. Oh puke, I think I'm going "Green". I'll burn a tire today to make up for it.