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Title: KOTRC Knight's Joust
Post by: Larry Renger on May 30, 2009, 10:14:40 PM

Sad to say, there were only two entries in 1cc at the Joust.  I entered, and when nobody else did, conned Eric Rule into flying my airplane.  We both flamed out at exactly the same spot in the 4-leaf clover due to excessive fuel consumption, but boy does that AP/Tee Dee combo sing a sweet song!

I test ran my latest carb with a 5x3, 3-blade tornado prop and peaked at just over 20K on 10% fuel.  But then one of the carb retaining screws bailed out and the needle collet loosened up at the same time.  Dang, I have a whole passle of props to test, but will have to wait a few days to get back to it.  Needless to say, since I was running the engine over grass, the screw was not found.   HB~>

Oh, I did come in first   #^

Title: Re: KOTRC Knight's Joust
Post by: Bill Adair on May 31, 2009, 02:45:57 AM

Larry,

Congratulations, I think.  ;D

Was that one of the original AP Wasp carb mounting screws you lost?

Bill

Title: Re: KOTRC Knight's Joust
Post by: Larry Renger on May 31, 2009, 07:44:55 PM

Yup, long gone!  I hope to find a source for replacements, though I have several of the engines and am not hurting right now.  Thanks!

Title: Re: KOTRC Knight's Joust
Post by: john e. holliday on June 01, 2009, 08:26:15 AM

If you know the screw size, try RTL Fasteners or as I always do most of the time when I only need one or two screws, the local Ace Hardware.  Take your engine with you when you go to Ace. DOC Holliday