Was ,likely my first ' new ' engine too . If we dont c*unt the katipo ( or the other way round )
which after the entire district gave up trying to start after six months , was likely sufficently loose for ME to start , to their dismay .
We used Castor from the chemists and bulk shell methanol . And religiously followed the instructions . Tell a lie , think the DS PAW was before it . But No Nitrate and it was a finger butcherer .
Took Off once with the Flingle Bunt - first loop I think . Such Power ! sufficent to wreck it on the next flight anyway , having to adjust the settings for each ' start ' .
Previous it was a sucession of used diesels 7 glows . U.S. ones with NO NITRO . dismal , green head torps & the like . that had previously suffered . All bar the Mills cause shock & trauma on recall
of their usefullness . ZILCH .
the OS 20 were $ 30 N.Z. from Radar Co. in Kowloon , Hong kong . Was lectured by a turkey in the nzmaa that we were disloyal to the country and should buy them of the mangey pom for $ 130 .
" But theyre all R.C. , we want control line " . -. ' oh no , thats extra , you have to buy the r.c. ' Arsey Indeed . You can figure . I figure youd get rid of most of the crooks if you deported 80 % of them .
FROM RADAR they came with THREE ventuies , stunt , std , and Combat , with the pressure nipple . I think thet was what went in the 30 , the biggest . 20 one , was smaller than std . .30 .
SO , just running em for a few hours ( always in fact ) without NITRO , I think the ' run in ' has as much to do with it as a carefully assembled pommy motorcycle .2000 miles to free off , then still getting faster at 5000
The g 15 had a year or more on no nitro , later with 10 5 it'd top out at 24.000 in the air on a taipan 7x6 . 120 odd . tho earlier It'd broken the sound barrier flying it in a hurricane .

So , for me , anyway , the ' bedding in ' proceedure on this ancient junk makes it or breaks it . swy a 650 would run a 900 kaw & a 750 Norton a xs11 , aceleratively , or betterem .
MISSUSE of the next owner the clapped out t120 with one intact ring , rooted clutch & no go or bite stuill ran 14.5 @ 90 . same as the RingDing 350 there , at the ' Sprint meet ' my then A10 ran 16.9 @ 81
as they did new , but Id thought i couldve gone faster afoot , than with that . NZ also is a cooler place without the searing summer temperatures of the big continants .So less duress when under duress !