Box-o-Engines has Arrived!

Kim wrote:

happydad wrote:

Kim: have you heard my favorite saying?
"something happens when you get old, but i can't remember what it is?" anon

happydad

Yep...and I'd love to blame it on my age, but I remember being called 'scatterbrained" when I was a kid, my 'raging hormones' being blamed when I was a teenager, 'job stress' getting tagged through middle-age, and now as I grow older, 'getting senile' is the reason!

So, in some ways, I haven't really changed at all...just my the names of my excuses !

Kim: to use a quote from the 21st century popular on the west coast: "WHATEVER". LOVL, (very loud)

p.s i don't know if you have followed the Medallion .051?? discussion, but engine049 sent me an official nffs .051 piston to check against a "TD .051" engine i bought on ebay which in fact was a Medallion .051 with unmarked piston, no groove, and ground #2 cylinder for exhaust sleeve. i measured the piston in my medallion and it was .4095inch o.d. i measured the nffs .051 piston, it was .4095inch o.d. and for the coup-de-gras the nffs piston fit my medallion cylinder perfectly. there was magic in the air. so i am now very happydad

FOREVER

happydad wrote:

Kim wrote:

happydad wrote:

Kim: have you heard my favorite saying?
"something happens when you get old, but i can't remember what it is?" anon

happydad

Yep...and I'd love to blame it on my age, but I remember being called 'scatterbrained" when I was a kid, my 'raging hormones' being blamed when I was a teenager, 'job stress' getting tagged through middle-age, and now as I grow older, 'getting senile' is the reason!

So, in some ways, I haven't really changed at all...just my the names of my excuses !

Kim: to use a quote from the 21st century popular on the west coast: "WHATEVER". LOVL, (very loud)

p.s i don't know if you have followed the Medallion .051?? discussion, but engine049 sent me an official nffs .051 piston to check against a "TD .051" engine i bought on ebay which in fact was a Medallion .051 with unmarked piston, no groove, and ground #2 cylinder for exhaust sleeve. i measured the piston in my medallion and it was .4095inch o.d. i measured the nffs .051 piston, it was .4095inch o.d. and for the coup-de-gras the nffs piston fit my medallion cylinder perfectly. there was magic in the air. so i am now very happydad

FOREVER

Well, as George Peppard's charactor used to say in the old "A Team" series, "I love it when a plan comes together!"

And sometimes, you're too lazy to clean anything, and just want to make something run:

I didn't do much to my little Ebay Spook...just blew out the spraybar, and peeked inside the backside. The reed looked brand new so, other than a new case gasket, it was just bolted back together, and mounted on a stand.

The old glowplug worked, so I installed a black 6-3 prop to it (because the 6-3 was handy), filled the tank with Sig 15% (because it was closest), and cranked 'er up.

It took a few tries to get the goop out of it, and it then ran up to the low-mid 12's...probably for the first time in a few years. It happily ran out a couple tanks, so it gets oiled and moved to "On Duty Status".

Now...back to that pesky Tee Dee .010....

The .010 has niced-up now that I've gone to the trouble of installing a gasket in it's rear end !

Still not the fastest...thinking maybe some castor build-up that might be addressed later...but it holds it's needle setting better, with the surging almost gone.

So it goes...