I adopted a problem child on Ebay

I have been a fan of OK engines since I was A kid My favorite is the .074. I was bored last week and it was raining so I was looking at all kinds of things on Ebay that I don't need and I stumbled onto an OK Cub .149 that wasn't listed with all the other Cub stuff, it looked great in the pictures and it stated it was seized. I got it for cheap and figured I would chance it being stuck from old fuel. A little liquid wrench and the heat gun and it was free, the compression was good so I popped off the back cover made sure the rod was good and free oiled it up and put it on the test stand. I added a little extra castor to the fuel and tried starting it, a couple of encouraging pops and it was running. I treated it like a new engine being broken in with heat cycles etc. because I don't know its history but it appears to be broken in now with no black or gray goo in the exhaust. The one thing that is not fun with cubs is your finger and thumb get cooked by the exhaust when tweaking the needle valve, well the .149 really is a finger incinerator I am going to add a small piece of plastic tubing to the needle to get my fingers away from the heat, Its a clear hose that if you heat it up real good it gets soft enough to push over the knob on a Cub and once it cools it gets firm again and locks in place. The problem child came out when it was just about out of fuel it spit out some fuel when it hiccuped and on the next stroke fired again and ignited it setting my test stand on fire, Bad little cubby keep this up and your going back to Herkimer I thought. But all in all I think Its going to be a fun engine and I might have decided on my next Old Time Stunt Engine for My Blackhawk/Goldberg Glo-Bug. TJ