Not a good day.

Yeah + half a bucket of Zap

Lets hope this is habit forming but the Bacaruda returned from this mornings sortie
in one piece. Hurrah!
It's official Cox 010's do NOT like very cold weather -1 at the field and
difficult to keep running at anything like full power. Longest flight about 1min 5 secs.
I think I'm going to knock it on the head till it warms up a bit.

John Goddard wrote:Lets hope this is habit forming but the Bararuda returned from this mornings sortie
in one piece. Hurrah!
It's official Cox 010's do NOT like very cold weather -1 at the field and
difficult to keep running at anything like full power. Longest flight about 1min 5 secs.
I think I'm going to knock it on the head till it warms up a bit.

Your a man among men, messing with .010's in -1 temps. Geesh.......

John if you do go out again could you get a vid?
I ran a .020 and it was firm today.
Btw you can get them leaner in cold weather.

cribbs74 wrote:

John Goddard wrote:Lets hope this is habit forming but the Bararuda returned from this mornings sortie
in one piece. Hurrah!
It's official Cox 010's do NOT like very cold weather -1 at the field and
difficult to keep running at anything like full power. Longest flight about 1min 5 secs.
I think I'm going to knock it on the head till it warms up a bit.

Your a man among men, messing with .010's in -1 temps. Geesh.......

Poor little fingles iz cold Ron.


No one else daft enough to come and hold Camera Indra, don't panic though I will get
in the can at some point.

John Goddard wrote:

cribbs74 wrote:

John Goddard wrote:Lets hope this is habit forming but the Bararuda returned from this mornings sortie
in one piece. Hurrah!
It's official Cox 010's do NOT like very cold weather -1 at the field and
difficult to keep running at anything like full power. Longest flight about 1min 5 secs.
I think I'm going to knock it on the head till it warms up a bit.

Your a man among men, messing with .010's in -1 temps. Geesh.......

Poor little fingles iz cold Ron.


No one else daft enough to come and hold Camera Indra, don't panic though I will get
in the can at some point.

Where is it you fly again?
Enfield or do you fly this somewhere else?

John Goddard wrote:New balsa Cyano hybrid Airframe Check
New Manly 6g HS50's Check
New Engine and prop Check
Bit more C/F Check
Somehow 125 grams AUW (previously 142) Check
A gentle breeze tomorrow b4 lunch Check
What can possibly go wrong.......?

The CEF stealth fighter lives!!

nitroairplane wrote:

John Goddard wrote:

cribbs74 wrote:

John Goddard wrote:Lets hope this is habit forming but the Bararuda returned from this mornings sortie
in one piece. Hurrah!
It's official Cox 010's do NOT like very cold weather -1 at the field and
difficult to keep running at anything like full power. Longest flight about 1min 5 secs.
I think I'm going to knock it on the head till it warms up a bit.

Your a man among men, messing with .010's in -1 temps. Geesh.......

Poor little fingles iz cold Ron.


No one else daft enough to come and hold Camera Indra, don't panic though I will get
in the can at some point.

Where is it you fly again?
Enfield or do you fly this somewhere else?

Usually on a Sat Chingford Indra but I went to Rammey Marsh at Enfield which is supposed to be our Sunday patch .
Anyway not scientific but....
Annoying the neightbours some more and with dusk descending I went into garden (-4 now) and I could actually see the glow through the exhaust port growing dimmer whilst running unless I gave it lots of glow (25/30 secs) first.
Obviously on an engine that only has 75 secs tank time this ain't great plus occaisionally the only way to stop mota dying was to reattach glow. I think perhaps just the scale of an 010 means it's more sensitive to cold weather.

That is possible.
I will be back in ten mins I am going to try and run a tiny diesel and see if it is different to glow.

nitroairplane wrote:That is possible.
I will be back in ten mins I am going to try and run a tiny diesel and see if it is different to glow.

I would think it would be harder, because they rely solely on compression ignition - no extra heat from the plug.

Back.
It ran.
I find they start just as easy/hard in the cold for the exact reason you stated Matt,
They rely in compression and when engines are cold compression is higher.

Well, I just got another wrench in a lot. Good day.