Santa Bob Arrived!

Gifts heck............small payback for all the help that Levent and Robert have given me over the years.  Thanks fellas, your thoughtfullness is shown in many ways all over my house.

Bob

Our generous friend Bob sent an Enya .09 and a vintage Sterling kit to me. Thank you so much friend

Your welcome Levent.

I love those little vintage Enya 3001's, bought every one that I could find.  Looks like I sent Levent one in "as found" condition.  Rectangular squared-off exhaust and MADE IN JAPAN cast into the left bearer.  

Lucky enough to find one new in the box.




From Bob Allan's "Compendum".

Already disassembled engine for cleaning and polishing cylinder. I like the as found condition because I like to clean and polish engines. I found that gasket between crankcase and shaft became dust due time, need to make one. I don't polish crankcase, want to left it as sandblasted aluminium. All screws need to be replaced with new ones, I think that Allen hex screws are suitable. This is my first .09 engine and searched about technical document and found this interesting history about Enya .09 3001

https://www.supercoolprops.com/articles/enya9.php

Again thanks Bob, I prefer as found engines, because restoring engines is a fun

I am going to send photos in future.

Thanks for info Bob.

Excerpts from article in Model Aircraft September 1959.