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Post  Admin Sat Aug 27, 2011 11:31 am

Since Estes mixed a lot of different engine parts, you never know what you are going to get. The only oops I have came across was a DC sure start with a regular reed retainer and not the larger red retainer, it had the correct gasket though. I have also found a sure start with a unfinished glow head, it looked fine from the outside but there was no element nor does it look like a element was ever installed. What have you come across or read about?
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Post  nitroairplane Sat Aug 27, 2011 11:34 am

i read that I think Matt found .051 piston wedged into a .049 cylinder.
i have found metal shavings in over 5 engines including a .010 Computer Issues
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Post  Admin Sat Aug 27, 2011 11:36 am

nitroairplane wrote:i read that I think Matt found .051 piston wedged into a .049 cylinder.
i have found metal shavings in over 5 engines including a .010 Computer Issues


Oh yeah, I have found some shavings (good sized ones) in a few sure starts before.
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Post  SuperDave Sat Aug 27, 2011 11:44 am

On that note, Japanese engine manufacturers recommend a through inspection before running an engine.

BTW, QC is more Japanese than American. Been there to see it. Don't tell me that the Japanese are just "copiers" That's more of an attribute of the Chinese.

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Post  nitroairplane Sat Aug 27, 2011 11:55 am

Admin wrote:
nitroairplane wrote:i read that I think Matt found .051 piston wedged into a .049 cylinder.
i have found metal shavings in over 5 engines including a .010 Computer Issues


Oh yeah, I have found some shavings (good sized ones) in a few sure starts before.

but that is not the worst thing i once found shavings 1 or 2 mm large inside the crankcase of an AE .1cc an engine made England in small numbers and i payed a pretty penny for it but that engine has never nu for more than 2 mins at a time despit over 1.5 days worth of combined time trying to start it.
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Post  EXModelEngines Sat Aug 27, 2011 12:23 pm

nitroairplane wrote:i read that I think Matt found .051 piston wedged into a .049 cylinder.
i have found metal shavings in over 5 engines including a .010 Computer Issues

Yeah, at first I was thinking it would be cool to have another spare 051 piston, then I realized it was ruined by being pressed into the 049 cylinder lol.

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Post  nitroairplane Sat Aug 27, 2011 12:25 pm

yeah that would annoy me so much. Maybe it would fit in a tee dee .05 now lol!
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Post  Admin Sat Aug 27, 2011 1:47 pm

EXModelEngines wrote:
nitroairplane wrote:i read that I think Matt found .051 piston wedged into a .049 cylinder.
i have found metal shavings in over 5 engines including a .010 Computer Issues

Yeah, at first I was thinking it would be cool to have another spare 051 piston, then I realized it was ruined by being pressed into the 049 cylinder lol.

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Now if it was the other way around .051 cylinder (TD, Killer Bee or maybe a lost and forgotten NFFS medallion cylinder) with a .049 piston in it. That would be cool!
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Post  jetpack Sat Aug 27, 2011 1:47 pm

HEY not in the .05 that sits with a halo around it Shocked

The only reason I can bunk Estes is I only bought their rockets, two of them. For 8th grade science. One of them blew off one of its three fins on launch and I did not attribute it to my building skills as I did to their engineering skill. When I thought about what happened, it only made sense not to hang a half a sheet of 1/16" balsa on the outer end of a fin edged glued to a piece of cardboard tube and launch it as fast as a shotgun. That's eigth grade science.
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Post  microflitedude Sat Aug 27, 2011 6:14 pm

jetpack wrote:HEY not in the .05 that sits with a halo around it Shocked

The only reason I can bunk Estes is I only bought their rockets, two of them. For 8th grade science. One of them blew off one of its three fins on launch and I did not attribute it to my building skills as I did to their engineering skill. When I thought about what happened, it only made sense not to hang a half a sheet of 1/16" balsa on the outer end of a fin edged glued to a piece of cardboard tube and launch it as fast as a shotgun. That's eigth grade science.

Don't bother with any of them especially the small ones. I have yet to see one have a successful flight... lol!
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Post  nitroairplane Sat Aug 27, 2011 6:24 pm

microflitedude wrote:
jetpack wrote:HEY not in the .05 that sits with a halo around it Shocked

The only reason I can bunk Estes is I only bought their rockets, two of them. For 8th grade science. One of them blew off one of its three fins on launch and I did not attribute it to my building skills as I did to their engineering skill. When I thought about what happened, it only made sense not to hang a half a sheet of 1/16" balsa on the outer end of a fin edged glued to a piece of cardboard tube and launch it as fast as a shotgun. That's eigth grade science.

Don't bother with any of them especially the small ones. I have yet to see one have a successful flight... lol!

Want to put one of their rocket motors (or 5) on my losi micro sct Laughing
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Post  nitroairplane Sat Aug 27, 2011 6:35 pm

Another Estes epic fail horror story.
http://coxengineforum.forumakers.com/t22-killer-bee-97
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