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Forum: Glow Engines
12-07-2008, 06:29 PM
Replies: 54,852
Views: 5,415,292
Posted By balsaeater

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

The model engines makers are not going to get bail outs like the big car companies .If the volumes fall a lot then after some few fire sales and a few makers go belly up then the chances the prices...
Forum: Glow Engines
12-04-2008, 09:51 PM
Replies: 54,852
Views: 5,415,292
Posted By balsaeater

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Thats debatable on how much the engine cost to buy compared to the glow version and how often you fly. Then there is the issue of possible lesser power compared to glow as in what sizes props the...
Forum: Glow Engines
11-28-2008, 11:30 AM
Replies: 54,852
Views: 5,415,292
Posted By balsaeater

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Thanks guys got the allen bolts to undo
Bought a hardened Allen key and cut it to size .I then used a long nose plyers and ordinary plyers depending who could fit to help for the turning with...
Forum: Glow Engines
11-27-2008, 09:10 AM
Replies: 54,852
Views: 5,415,292
Posted By balsaeater

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Possibly I mistook 300F for 300C as I tend to forget that anybody still uses that form of temp measure.
Anyway I will try some new allen keys I bought and hopefully wont have to heat engine

...
Forum: Glow Engines
11-27-2008, 02:35 AM
Replies: 54,852
Views: 5,415,292
Posted By balsaeater

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

I was monertoring another thread about removing a sticky bearing froma YS engine and in that thread they were placing the engine casing in a oven at ~300C for ~20 minutes .
I was from this...
Forum: Glow Engines
11-26-2008, 06:00 PM
Replies: 54,852
Views: 5,415,292
Posted By balsaeater

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

I suspected that was the way to do it
Now how to get those allen bolts to turn is the problem
Must have been the Saito factory gorrila that tightened them

thanks

Balsaeater
Forum: Glow Engines
11-26-2008, 09:11 AM
Replies: 54,852
Views: 5,415,292
Posted By balsaeater

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Had a crash radio failure of some sort or battery or dual battery switch whatever which made a vertical dive full tilt and buried plane into thick mud and plane is DOA
Prop broke on the way in...
Forum: Glow Engines
09-02-2008, 07:55 AM
Replies: 54,852
Views: 5,415,292
Posted By balsaeater

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

très bel endroit Castelnau de Médoc,

lovely place Castelnau de Médoc,

J'ai fait la vinedage il dans l'histoire

I did the wine season work there in the history

I Bought my Saito...
Forum: Glow Engines
08-25-2008, 02:24 PM
Replies: 54,852
Views: 5,415,292
Posted By balsaeater

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

I have done 5 props in APC 18* 6 w with hand drilling with the eye careful to verify each drilling went senter etc all replacements from prop strikes and all balanced and tracked with no issues

...
Forum: Glow Engines
08-25-2008, 12:08 PM
Replies: 54,852
Views: 5,415,292
Posted By balsaeater

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Well in terms of balance it was nearly balanced
One blade was a tad heavy and a few scrapes from leading edge maybe a few grams of plactic and it seemed to balance
I did my best to make hole...
Forum: Glow Engines
08-25-2008, 08:15 AM
Replies: 54,852
Views: 5,415,292
Posted By balsaeater

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Yesterday for my Saito 180 I wanted to try out a MA three blade 16*8 intsead of the normal two bladed prop APC 18*6 W or the back up two bladed APC 17*6
I balanced out the prop best as possible...
Forum: Glow Engines
08-24-2008, 03:37 AM
Replies: 54,852
Views: 5,415,292
Posted By balsaeater

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

You dont say what fuel you use and what nitro content

I don't know how heavy or light is a ZOAR make of props that you use

often changing from heavy weight APC to lighter weight zinger ...
Forum: Glow Engines
08-23-2008, 07:29 PM
Replies: 54,852
Views: 5,415,292
Posted By balsaeater

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

I think the term is Trumpet like the music instrument Trumpet

I think I read somewhere that this part is critical to correct running

Is it possible your friend was stiffed from the sales...
Forum: Glow Engines
08-22-2008, 04:20 PM
Replies: 54,852
Views: 5,415,292
Posted By balsaeater

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Not sure if your problem is similar to the problem i had and then I cured
My plastic throttle arm was moving up and down when the engine was on tick over and tuning was erractic
Investigation...
Forum: Glow Engines
08-20-2008, 06:04 AM
Replies: 54,852
Views: 5,415,292
Posted By balsaeater

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

So how does one rate the Poeche or BMW or Mercedez forums
As upmarket expensivve cars does the same as above apply to these top end cars

Really as a owner of some magnums and a Saito 180 ...
Forum: Glow Engines
07-31-2008, 04:38 PM
Replies: 54,852
Views: 5,415,292
Posted By balsaeater

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

When my work supplys lots of overtime and bonuses then I am a lot more frivilos and tend to buy the Saitos
Things are slow so got to shop carefully and Saito glow fuels are great value still
...
Forum: Glow Engines
07-31-2008, 01:28 AM
Replies: 54,852
Views: 5,415,292
Posted By balsaeater

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

20:1 is not good news when there is a lot of engines to chose from in the same size that will do 50:1

In my neck of the woods higher tax Europe the price differental from the 220 glow ...
Forum: Glow Engines
07-22-2008, 12:19 PM
Replies: 54,852
Views: 5,415,292
Posted By balsaeater

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

I looked up the Bru line Filter at tower search option
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/WTI0095P?FVSEARCH=Bru+Line+filter&FVPCODE=RF&search3=Go
and other links

Apart from the problem...
Forum: Glow Engines
07-21-2008, 03:10 PM
Replies: 54,852
Views: 5,415,292
Posted By balsaeater

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

When I was running in my Saito 180 on bench test
with 20 onz tank on ~half gas the fuel tank lasted ~20 minutes
so I figured half gas = 1 onz per minute

The Instruction book say ~55cc per...
Forum: Glow Engines
07-21-2008, 10:35 AM
Replies: 54,852
Views: 5,415,292
Posted By balsaeater

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

excellent info
What are the specs on this plane sundowner
kit manufactuer ?
or plans?
wing span weight fixed or retract UC etc
maybe even a pic

At those speeds I might choose to...
Forum: Glow Engines
07-16-2008, 03:35 AM
Replies: 54,852
Views: 5,415,292
Posted By balsaeater

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

have you tried my source for Saito (through LHS agent ) aeronaut.de in germany

http://www.aero-naut.net/355.html?&L=1

this is what they claim
"
Mr. Gen Saito (founder) and aero-naut...
Forum: Glow Engines
07-15-2008, 06:16 AM
Replies: 54,852
Views: 5,415,292
Posted By balsaeater

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Only 1.5 gallons fuel through the engine so needs more running in I think


Here is a vidio and mild crash into a high weed which I clipped when flying on my 4th final flight of the day (...
Forum: Glow Engines
07-01-2008, 03:08 AM
Replies: 54,852
Views: 5,415,292
Posted By balsaeater

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Thanks for the info
I was hoping only to have to check the tappets every 20 gallons or so preferably less than that
Realy I am more your buy fly and throw fuel at the problem type of flyer and...
Forum: Glow Engines
06-30-2008, 04:14 PM
Replies: 54,852
Views: 5,415,292
Posted By balsaeater

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Thanks for the info always good to confirm what I suspected

Also on this link about suitable fuels for Saito

...
Forum: Glow Engines
06-30-2008, 01:30 PM
Replies: 54,852
Views: 5,415,292
Posted By balsaeater

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Just got back from the LHS after getting fuel tubing which now I am fairly certian I wont need .
The LHS figures The new fuel triggered the problems and changing the fuel back to the original Zero ...
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