I always found my engines to run a little better on the richer side in cold temps, that doesent mean its right.

Well we were up until 4am last night had a nice celebration for the wife's B-day lots of ping pong action and food to boot were all dead today lol and now I have a cold temps in the low 20's and having sneezing fits I hate those lol

I went out today. Helped get an OS91/Big Stik setup on a 9C. The temp was cool. My hands got pretty cold buddy boxing on a glider.

Anyway, this engine had not been started in about four months. We primed it up, made a lot of turns to get some fuel mix in the cylinder, and started it up. Ran it for a few minutes with the glow starter on it. I then turned the HSN about a half turn rich. Set the throttle to WOT and leaned it for pinch test. I am sure it was previously tuned in 90+ temps so I expected the HSN to need adjustment.

We ran it for several minutes to let it loosen up, checked transition, and confirming the HSN setting. Then we idled down and set the idle on the transmitter with 0 trim. Adjusted and checked the Idle Cut-off and it was ready to fly.

There were 4 or 5 other glow planes out and a couple of gassers. A few electrics too.

I just leave the glow starter on a bit longer when it is cold to let the engine reach temp.

I don't know anything is different in the winter except we have to richen it up a little.

Yep, gotta richen her up to compensate for the cold dense air.

Well it's been a twisted sunday even though I didn't fly. Instead I spent the day in an out of the modedl airplane room. I started working on the club's Kadet LT. I set the smoke alarm off 3 times using the heat gun to remove epoxy.
It took me better part of the day to put a new motor mount on and tricycle landing gear.
I had to savage blind nuts and the likes. I have american blind nuts on on the top of the nose gear block and metric blind nuts on the bottom of the block.
Some times a man has gotta use what he has to use.
All in all it was a good day in the shop.

Originally Posted by buckskin

The main thing I have found, is let the engine warm up good on the ground, and don't run it too rich. It needs to run a little on the hot side or it will cool down and die in flight. It's been a while but I used to fly in 20 and 30 degree weather a lot.

It just seems for me at least, to get my birds to perform in the 20 degrees means adding a shim and going to a hotter plug. Then on that august fly in where its 108 degrees, you gotta take it all out. Just a pain for me. I fly all electric in the winter.

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Originally Posted by NoMatta

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Boy dog your up early?
I'm up but the day is too early to plan. I've got so many things that need to be done.
Being semi retired is not all it's cracked up to be.

Originally Posted by NoMatta

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