This thing is great!!

I'd seen pictures of the throttled Medallion .049 like in the Reviews thread, but I'd never seen one in person. So when one came up on eBay last month I went ahead and got it. Man was that thing ugly. It was dirt covered and frozen up, but after an evening of work it was flipping over nice and easy. I thought about polishing it up, but didn't want to pull the polishing stuff out until I was sure it was a runner. I also added a spring starter that I got from Bernie.

Yesterday I set it up on the test stand with a 6x3 prop and fired her up. AWESOME!!! I couldn't find my tach to check the prop speeds, but the Review section article says it throttles down to 1700 RPM and I believe it. And it was a reliable idle, too. I closed the throttle off all the way and let it idle for a whole minute, and it came smoothly back up to full RPM. When I get my tach, I'll see what the Full and Idle RPM's are, and swap out for a 5x3 prop and see what that throttles to. Too bad these aren't for sale anymore. If another throttle assembly comes up on eBay again, I'm gonna get it for my other Medallion .049. Blows the Ace throttle sleeve out of the water. I have the Sure Start R/C throttle on order from Bernie so I can compare idle RPM's, but that's really an apples to oranges comparison. I have to finish up that Q-Tee I started 20 years ago so I can put this Medallion on it.







The Disputed Mark