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Re: Ugliest Model Engines?
gcb Sun Mar 11, 2012 6:03 pm
Ivanhoe wrote:Yet more uglies...................!
And, strangely for Drones, glow ignition, I thought all Drones were diesel, you learn a little something every day!!
AFAIK they were all diesels. Might these be after-market conversion heads?
The glow plug in the one on the right is a Champion. Not sure about the left one...Arden perhaps?
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Re: Ugliest Model Engines?
nitroairplane Sun Mar 11, 2012 6:05 pm
That ignition drone is not ignition I think it jut has a spark plug or odd glowplug in it.
The plug on the left, I dunno what it is but I have a few.
The plug on the left, I dunno what it is but I have a few.
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Mark Boesen Sun Mar 11, 2012 9:55 pm
Champion, in the early days made glowplugs. I've also seen the plug on the left, but can't think of it?
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Re: Ugliest Model Engines?
gcb Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:44 pm
Here are some Champion short plugs. I flew mostly .15 and smaller engines in those days.
If I remember correctly, the reason Champion stopped making glow plugs was that it cost more to make a glow plug than a spark plug for an automobile. Note that they had an idle bar of sorts.
BTW, these are still good.
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If I remember correctly, the reason Champion stopped making glow plugs was that it cost more to make a glow plug than a spark plug for an automobile. Note that they had an idle bar of sorts.
BTW, these are still good.
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Re: Ugliest Model Engines?
gcb Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:49 pm
Another pic so you can see the label. The shorts were VG-3. They came in little cardboard boxes like sparkplugs did in those days:
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Re: Ugliest Model Engines?
SuperDave Mon Mar 12, 2012 9:19 am
As is beauty, uglyness is in the eye of the beholder. 
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Re: Ugliest Model Engines?
Ivanhoe Wed Mar 14, 2012 5:54 pm
SuperDave wrote:As is beauty, uglyness is in the eye of the beholder.
Beauty is only skin deep, ugly goes right to the bone!
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Re: Ugliest Model Engines?
nitroairplane Wed Mar 14, 2012 6:00 pm
One thing I never got.
What is the nut under the jena's Venturi for?
What is the nut under the jena's Venturi for?
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Ivanhoe Wed Mar 14, 2012 6:10 pm
nitroairplane wrote:One thing I never got.
What is the nut under the jena's Venturi for?
Probably like the bolt in Frankenstein's monster's neck, one day he unscrewed it........and the back of his head fell off!
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RknRusty Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:17 pm
I like that Jena 1cc. It looks like a Gatling gun modded into a rocket launcher. Or some kind of antique military weapon... the size of a Deringer. Ha! a pocket rocket.
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Re: Ugliest Model Engines?
Cribbs74 Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:00 pm
The head is kinda cool.....that's the only nice thing I can say about it.
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Re: Ugliest Model Engines?
engine049 Thu Mar 15, 2012 2:24 am
lookd like its hailing Hitler with its expansion pipe
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nitroairplane Thu Mar 15, 2012 2:37 am
The only ugly ones there are the plane and the cox.
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Surfer_kris Thu Mar 15, 2012 2:45 am
I love my Philtech RC diesel, if anything they are more beautiful then other engines to me.
The muffler is a very nice design and rotatable in the attachment to the engine (held by a flange).
The muffler is a very nice design and rotatable in the attachment to the engine (held by a flange).
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nitroairplane Thu Mar 15, 2012 3:10 am
It does look lovely.
Different stroke for different folks
I like 2 stroke
Different stroke for different folks
I like 2 stroke
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engine049 Thu Mar 15, 2012 5:17 am
Surfer_kris wrote:I love my Philtech RC diesel, if anything they are more beautiful then other engines to me.
The muffler is a very nice design and rotatable in the attachment to the engine (held by a flange).
I think the Philtech is absolutely gorgeous also, Still came as a aesthetic surprise to me with the E-pipe
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