Jerobee Alfa T33 Can Am.... It works! Thanks Jason

Thanks Lieven, great info and much appreciated. I have been digging into your vette threads and it’s been a big help.

Eric, I am good on a radio system. I bought a 2 Ch Futaba Attack III back in 1992 and never did much with it. I installed some batteries last night and it still works!

If you know the pitch of the teeth I can create a new bull gear in any number configuration and 3D print it. Regular Zytel would be best as CF Zytel is pretty abrasive and would wear out the pinion. Tinkercad has a gear generator and there are some openscad custom gear generators. I can add the hex hub center and any offset needed on the hub. Just need measurements.

Thanks Jason, definitely something I will keep in mind. Right now I would be happy to just get a complete clutch unit so I can make it actually work. New wheel would help too...

I wonder how low on that gear before it becomes to sluggish on the low end.

I might have the 5-40 clutch shaft with the circlip groove and the grey clutch shoes in my NMMTPA box-o-junk I got off ebay a while back. I'll have to find that stuff. I do know the Cox GTP clutch shoes look exactly the same but are white. Uses the same spring. The pitch on the teeth are finer on the GTP so the GTP clutch bell wouldn't work there.

That would be great, just whenever you get around to it. I would sure appreciate it.

I found the clutch shaft, grey clutch shoes and spring. Also can send a GTP clutch shoes. They are lighter and probably engage at a slightly higher RPM.

The flywheel for the TD jerobee engine looks to be unobtanium. I have aluminum stock here that size. All that’s left is to drill the two holes for the roll pins and drill and tap the two 3-48 set screws. May not look pretty and knurling on the HF minilathe is almost impossible. Should be called the chatter master 1000. Must also spend more than $9 for a knurling tool.

Oh man! That looks amazing Jason.

I feel like a dirtbag now though. Check your inbox......


Between this forum and kind strangers I have everything I need now to complete this project and more.

I took the time to tear the chassis down and clean it up, just waiting on the mailman now....

Wow. And clean you did! Can't wait for the rebuild.

Very neat cool y like the carb u want To use looks promising for crazy performance if y have luck To Find one y like To use on m'y wit its tuned pipe

Jason the parts u made look Good y buy one like that if it was posible its Somting y want To achive build the flywheel for tee dee that part wil sale fast tink on ebay build 100 of them

The mailman arrived today. I had ordered a few parts from a guy in Sweden, they were sent on the 17th of January and arrived today. I couldn’t believe it, 7 days from Sweden? Really? I can’t get stuff in the U.S. to come that fast these days. I was impressed for sure.

I also received parts from the original owner, I wrote him about a week after auction ended and asked that he ever came up with the original missing parts that I would be interested. Well he found them, and sent them free of charge. When does that ever happen?  Still waiting on the large body Pins and tires from Canada. Ordered those on the 7th. Maybe I should have got them from Sweden...

Here is the chassis assembled with the new parts. I fired it off and it ran like crap with that carb, touchy needle, super high idle and flaky running, so I may go with a throttle ring.

Sweet ! It cleaned up well .

That looks good with new bumper, drag link and the 4th wheel!!

I have to admit I am not in my comfort zone, I am so used to just firing these things up set the needle and go, the throttling has me baffled and I can only assume I am doing it wrong.

The Tarno was completely useless, very poor throttle response and constant flame outs as I went to idle. Muffled or open exhaust didn’t matter. I messed with the idle stop screw and it didn’t matter, I could only keep it running with it adjusted almost all the way in. Problem with that is the idle is so high the clutch stays engaged.

So off came the number 4 cylinder, on went the #3 with throttle ring. Better, but still poor response and idle too high to disengage the clutch. I had 2 different ring styles and they worked about the same.

I am kind of at a loss here. Any ideas guys?

With the early GTP Nissan it used a medallion cylinder with the throttle muffler like on the dragonfly engine. I always had to have the break engaged to keep it stopped. The clutch engagement at idle would always creep it forward. This was on a reed engine though. The clutch shoes on the GTP are lighter. Takes a bit higher RPM to engage. I can send you a set. Also make sure the spring isn’t deformed that holds the shoes together.

Interesting, I thought about the throttle muffler as I have heard good things. I even went as far as to look on Ebay, but nothing is on there at the moment. The spring and shoes I have are new, I really think it’s just I can’t get the idle down. Do you have any experience with the RC .05 carb? I can get one of those easily, but if it’s like the Tarno then forget it.

I think the throttle muffler would be the way to go. If it throttles down and keeps things quiet I am all for it. The TD seems so much louder running on a flywheel as opposed to a prop. I’ll have to keep looking for one. Is the Medallion cylinder ground for use with that?

Lots of questions, as I said new territory for me.

I have a spare set I can send you. It’s non SPI set used on the GTP. I ran my GTP with this setup and seemed to work pretty good back in the day. The Maple throttle that came later was good too I guess but never used it. I have a few cars with that here and only ran it one time to see how it worked. I’ll have to dig all my GTP and stocker cars out some day and get a pic.

What a guy! Yeah I’ll give it a whirl! Thank you. Would love to see the gtp cars and stockers. I’ll send you a PM.

Here’s setup instructions for the throttle muffler from the older GTP Nissan manual. This should apply to the Jerobee.

Thanks Jason,

Good info, that should make things much easier or at least get me in the ballpark quicker.

Ron

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Thanks David,

I will play around with it some more in the future. I spent two full days dorking with it and it never got any better. The carb was new in package and had instructions which I followed.

It didn’t say anything about pressure although, it wouldn’t be the first time something model airplane related didn’t work as advertised.

To be honest I am just sick of messing with it.

The only thing I didn’t consider was I was bench running it out of the car. This omits the load of the wheels, axle and gear. Perhaps it needs that to run properly.

Ron

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