Following my last post, I decided to have a few drinks to celebrate ny freedom from mesothelioma, so I've had a couple of beers and read all my blogs, God it takes me back.
Today I'd gone to the flying field taking a couple of windy weather planes plus I also took my engine test bed and a couple of engines I'd been experiencing difficulty in setting up. Not because I can't hack it but because so many people used to try to help and, one thing |I've found, they don't know eff all, or so I thought.
Set my saito 82a up, I converted this to a partial B spec by buying and fitting the alloy backplate to replace the nylon original. This engine had been in a minor crash and the intake tube was damaged, I straightened it and refitted it but it still needed several O rings and some Hylomar to seal it.
Ran it up and was inundated with helpers, eventually after half a tank of fuel hit the sweet spot, she runs to 9200 which includes 300rpm backed off by enriching it and throttles nicely down to 2200, all this on a 14x6 apc which my hp calculator tells me needs 1.23 horse power to do.
Next up was a 61 SC 2 stroke, I'd crashed this through pilot error and broken the carb so a new one had been acquired and fitted; refilled the tank spun it up and 20 seconds later it's idling at 2100 and peaking at 9850 on a 13x8 apc which my hp calculator says needs 1.53 horse power to do so I'm well please.
Fuel was 10% nitro, 17% synthetic and 3% castor for both engines. Don't normally use castor but this was all that was obtainable.
Well pleased with the result, now have another saito 82, an sc 91 and a 91 Fx OS to trouble shoot look forward to doing that on saturday.
I joined a new club a few weeks ago and will have my first visit this weekend, it's a 130 mile round trip but they have great facilities with NO TREES really looking forward to it.

52 years ago I was a watch engineer on a BP tankship. She was old when I joined her and every time the engines were manoeuvred the engine room was hit by a snow storm of asbestos. It got everywhere.
Two weeks ago I saw a heart specialist as I was having trouble breathing, he said your lungs are amost certainly contaminated with asbestos and it's probably starting to do what it does.
Tonight I saw my GP after several x rays and was given the all clear no asbestos visible.
To say there's a weight off of my mind is 2015's biggest understatement, I mean we all have to go but asbestos related death is not a good way to shuffle out of this mortal coil. Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!