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Engine basics => Engine set up tips => Topic started by: Ty Marcucci on July 19, 2018, 02:18:32 PM
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Today I broke out one of my full fuselage Cavaliers. Primed the AT .36, 7 sharp flips, hooked up the glow plug and as always, one hard flip off it roared. Very nice take off if I say so myself. Then at midway in the third level lap the engine made a pop and stopped instantly . Oh, oh. Very nice level glide to a 40 point landing. I thught the prop had come loose. Nope, but no compression. Hmmm. I put up the plane and we flew others.
Ha! Nothing like that ever happened to me! Certainly not during the 7th round of the 1982 Middle Earth Stunt championships at Kearney Field in Lexington, Kentucky, right after my triangles.
Actually, the only difference for me was that I knew *immediately* what had happened, because the engine took half a lap to spin down. It was *real quiet*.
Brett
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Hello that dreaded sound and freewheeling prop occured last week for me but was the crank on my PAW diesel letting go. Painful when it is a great engine. At least yours should have many flights left . Regards Gerald :)
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:) Wow! Sounds like something that happened to me!! However, in my case, that same strange eerie silence occured shortly after touchdown ???!! %^@ LL~ LL~
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Ha! Nothing like that ever happened to me! Certainly not during the 7th round of the 1982 Middle Earth Stunt championships at Kearney Field in Lexington, Kentucky, right after my triangles.
Actually, the only difference for me was that I knew *immediately* what had happened, because the engine took half a lap to spin down. It was *real quiet*.
Brett
That's what I noticed as Ty's plane came around. Thought maybe the crank pin had sheared
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That " pop " noise is an option with the Aero Tiger, if you do not want the popping noise, you can make sure you have a good crush washer and add significant torque to the electric device , centered in the head :-)
Regards
Randy