RE: Most popular Diesel
- the originals are fragile, and bend easily ChrisM 'ffkiwi'
Posted on: 6/17/2013 8:58 PM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum "Everything Diesel"
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RE: FROG 149 Vibramatic
What nuances would these be, fiery? The delayed response to needle valve adjustment? ChrisM 'ffkiwi'
Posted on: 6/17/2013 8:02 PM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum "Everything Diesel"
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RE: Most popular Diesel
[quote]ORIGINAL: ffkiwi The Taifun production I alluded to earlier in this thread amounted to several hundred thousand, and when I locate those figures again I'll put them up..... ChrisM 'ffkiwi' [/quote] .....well would you believe 470,000 engines? Here are the figures-gleaned............. ChrisM 'ffkiwi' PS And as I noted earlier in this thread-it would be great to see
Posted on: 6/17/2013 3:11 PM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum "Everything Diesel"
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RE: Most popular Diesel
;ll put them up..... ChrisM 'ffkiwi'
Posted on: 6/17/2013 2:38 PM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum "Everything Diesel"
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RE: Most popular Diesel
The cylinder porting is straight off the Mach-1, not the Winner-6 deep internal transfer flutes (4 in the Yin Yan 149). It would appear than things went something like two parallel paths Mach-1-> MK12B (and derivatives) Mach-1->Vella/Krisma->Yin Yan. I did not wish to imply that the Yan Yan was a Mach-1 copy, it owes its direct ancestry to the Hungarian plain bearing models-and they owe their cylinder porting to the Mach-1 Chris M
Posted on: 6/16/2013 10:57 PM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum "Everything Diesel"
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RE: Most popular Diesel
the Mach-1 hit the market.....in '53 ChrisM 'ffkiwi'
Posted on: 6/16/2013 9:48 PM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum "Everything Diesel"
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RE: Most popular Diesel
Ok I concede-the MARZ would appear to be the most produced individual diesel model. I think we can safely assume/agree that the 2.5cc size is the most produced diesel capacity...........across all makes? ChrisM 'ffkiwi'
Posted on: 6/16/2013 3:58 PM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum "Everything Diesel"
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RE: Most popular Diesel
models-but only about 30-50,000 were made.... ChrisM 'ffkiwi'
Posted on: 6/16/2013 3:40 PM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum "Everything Diesel"
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RE: VA .049 MK1 Crank
VA Mk1s or Mk2s Dave?-I thought Dirty Dan Rutherford handled the Mk1s..............I expect by now spare VA Mk1 cranks are very thin on the ground.............more than a decade on, and given that they seemed to break fairly requently........ ChrisM 'ffkiwi'
Posted on: 6/16/2013 3:00 PM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum ""1/2 A" & "1/8 A" airplanes"
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RE: Fuel
one might perhaps comment that someone else with a slight amount of common sense might have considered it prudent to check out diesel fuel availability BEFORE deciding to buy the engine.......particularly when its a type they're not familiar with............. ChrisM 'ffkiwi'
Posted on: 6/12/2013 5:59 PM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum "Everything Diesel"
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RE: MVVS 1.5cc diesel run.
I'm assuming that we are talking of a leak around the needle valve thimble threads, caused by -essentially-too poor a fit between the respective male and female threads. You're right-silicone tubing will not serve you well in this respect, as it swells and softens in the presence of diesel fuel. My thoughts would-for this particular situation-lean towards wrapping the spraybar male threads with plumbers teflon conformal tape-which is very thin, very stretchy, and tends to meld into itself when wound or wrapped around a thread. [this is after all-exactly what it is used for in plumbing-sealing threads!]. I'm not sure whether you'll be able to do it in situ-as the ratchet spring may get in the way-but you'll still need the spring to hold the needle setting in anycase. [the tape probably CAN be fitted with just the needle valve removed, and the spraybar still on the engine-but it's likely to be a fiddly job! .....] Alternatively you can dis-assemble the NVA and install the tape-but you'll need to check that the larger diameter with the tape will still fit through the hole in the ratchet spring! Of course your other option is fitting a different needle valve assembly.......off the top of my head the MVVS/Modela one is about 3.4mm diameter-so an OS FP15 or 20FP standard one would be a suitable substitute............
Posted on: 6/10/2013 8:17 PM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum "Everything Diesel"
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RE: 1/2a Stick
in the process. ChrisM 'ffkiwi'
Posted on: 6/8/2013 5:28 PM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum ""1/2 A" & "1/8 A" airplanes"
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RE: 1/2a Stick
that are on the market to help you ... ChrisM 'ffkiwi' PS I commend your choice of the Sullivan Hornet mini
Posted on: 6/8/2013 4:16 PM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum ""1/2 A" & "1/8 A" airplanes"
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RE: Picco P-zero 0.8cc
stick on better............... ChrisM 'ffkiwi'
Posted on: 6/4/2013 8:09 PM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum ""1/2 A" & "1/8 A" airplanes"
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RE: Picco P-zero 0.8cc
.......... ChrisM 'ffkiwi'
Posted on: 6/4/2013 2:15 PM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum ""1/2 A" & "1/8 A" airplanes"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=11533303

RE: Sharkface plan questions
'ffkiwi'
Posted on: 5/30/2013 4:57 PM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum ""1/2 A" & "1/8 A" airplanes"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=11528309

RE: Sharkface plan questions
That's the same one I was thinking of-and a PAW55 is a good choice for power............. ChrisM 'ffkiwi'
Posted on: 5/30/2013 1:58 PM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum ""1/2 A" & "1/8 A" airplanes"
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RE: Sharkface plan questions
I am slightly intrigued by the discussion-the 'Sharkface' I am familiar with was a very small (and fast) single channel design by Eric Clutton, published as a free fullsize pull out plan in Aeromodeller in 1965. The attached pics of the model and drawing are from 'outerzone'-are we talking about the same model design? Or another model completely? ChrisM 'ffkiwi'
Posted on: 5/30/2013 1:17 PM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum ""1/2 A" & "1/8 A" airplanes"
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RE: Novel approach
seem to care...........! ChrisM 'ffkiwi'
Posted on: 5/24/2013 1:08 AM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum "Everything Diesel"
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RE: Novel approach
and here we are chilluns, -from the depths of my photo archives, the Arne Hende replica of the David Andersen D-A M1 2.5cc of 1950....... ChrisM 'ffkiwi'
Posted on: 5/23/2013 8:36 PM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum "Everything Diesel"
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RE: Novel approach
'ffkiwi'
Posted on: 5/23/2013 8:22 PM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum "Everything Diesel"
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RE: Novel approach
! [/quote] .....and how many ball raced sideports do you know of? ChrisM 'ffkiwi'
Posted on: 5/23/2013 6:56 PM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum "Everything Diesel"
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RE: Novel approach
. I'll try and put together a diagram and post it later............ ChrisM 'ffkiwi'
Posted on: 5/23/2013 4:07 PM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum "Everything Diesel"
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RE: Novel approach
...........the degree of eccentricity, the fit of the bushing to the case..... ChrisM 'ffkiwi
Posted on: 5/23/2013 1:07 PM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum "Everything Diesel"
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RE: New Extras
;Midwest' brand............... ChrisM 'ffkiwi'
Posted on: 5/19/2013 7:39 PM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum ""1/2 A" & "1/8 A" airplanes"
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RE: New Extras
skaliwag for the likes of us poor unfortunates who live outside the US, and suffer the indignities of 'international postage' is a 'short kit' version an option-ie the laser cut ribs formers etc only-omitting the strip wood (and the fuselage sides and other long sheet items) to stay under the 24" parcel length limit? ChrisM 'ffkiwi'
Posted on: 5/19/2013 12:32 PM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum ""1/2 A" & "1/8 A" airplanes"
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RE: Premier Engineering A-M 1.5 cc Diesel
That's more like it-I suspect with a flexi nylon Taipan 7x4 you'd get a bit more still out of it.................. ChrisM 'ffkiwi'
Posted on: 5/18/2013 9:04 PM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum "Everything Diesel"
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RE: MPjet 061D aircraft
4x .7 seems to work for my 061 (the nearest one I grabbed)] ChrisM
Posted on: 9/18/2012 6:59 PM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum "Everything Diesel"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=11232939

RE: MPjet 061D aircraft
I only have the 4x.7 tap so I could tap a thread in some scrap and see if it fits one of mine........ ChrisM
Posted on: 9/18/2012 6:37 PM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum "Everything Diesel"
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RE: MPjet 061D aircraft
that..........and they have several styles available in that thread. ChrisM 'ffkiwi'
Posted on: 9/18/2012 6:16 PM by Author "ffkiwi" in the forum "Everything Diesel"
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