1/2A Streaker

balogh wrote:Dick,

I may be repeating myself when talking about the balloon tank I use in my RC planes including the Streaker. I suggest you try this one. Never had a problem with engine runs..

Dick Russ wrote:Now that everyone knows about my past. it's tome to get back to the rear world of modeling. I have been rather disappointed with the Streaker flying. The plane fly's great when I can get the engine TD .049 but it seems that it never wants to run, hard starting and when it does finally run it generally is short on time. Finally after many tries I just gave up and went back to flying my electric Streaker. Finally after many days of not flying the COX Streaker I decided to spend some time trouble shooting. First of all I pulled the carb and venturi and with pressurized brake cleaner I blew out all the very small ports and it was great to see fluid exiting each port and fuel passage way. I put it all back togethers, reinstalled it back in the plane and fuel it up. It started fine but ran very little. Back when I was in College i took a course in internal combustion engines. The professor pointed out that if you have compression, ignition and fuel it will run. The COX has good compression, a hot glow plug and still didn't want to run. I pulled the fuel tank and checked the vent line, the tank fill line and pickup. That is when I found a small tear in the silicone fuel line as it exited the fuel tank brass fitting. Now this was the very small fuel line available. It needed to be stretched to slide over the 1/8 brass fitting in the tank. I had some small black fuel line that came with another fuel tank and had a much thicker wall and it fit great on the
COX carb nipple and well on the tank. With no kinks in any of the fuel system lines I filled the one ounce tank and the engine started instantly and ran solid for 10 minutes. Problem resolved. I now am looking forward to my next flight.

Speaking of my next flight. As many of you are aware the Streaker does not have a rudder. Only a vertical stabilizer (fin). The first customer for the kit sent me some photo of his completed Streaker and highly recommended I add a rudder. He said he could fly the entire masters pattern with the little plane. So with that I decided to add a rudder on mine along with a tail wheel just to see how it performed. I haven't flown it yet but really looking forward to the flight.
I will try to attach some photos.