O.S. Starting was type F Plug

[Anthony Romano]

I watched guys hands start RX's and efi's all last year but can't seem to 
get it right. My problem is the first start of the day. My procedure now is 
to put the plane inverted in a cradle prime and use my Dynatron on 24V to 
start. After the first start I can flip through with a chicken stick for the 
rest of the day.
  Also, for those using the Piedmont homeade softmount how is you battery 
life? With four digitals and one standard I am using about 300 mah per 10 
min flight. The servos I am using are pretty high draw but I am also get 
some good aileron blur at idle.  Thinking of switching to the Hyde ARI but 
am in sticker shock. Anyone have experience with these they can share.
TIA

Anthony


>From: "Earl Vincent" <ev3464 at sccoast.net>
>Reply-To: discussion at nsrca.org
>To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
>Subject: Re: O.S. F Plug
>Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 06:29:55 -0400
>
>Kevin, don't mess up your spinner, all the OS 140s I have run, which is 
>about 6 at this point have not had a starter put to them, turn
>the engine over by hand (no glow driver on) until you hear fuel in carb, 
>light glow plug and snap prop backward against compression
>not through and engine should start after 1-2 flips. When fueling make sure 
>the engine is not flooded if it is really hard to pull through
>compression, remove glow lug and flip a few times to clear then repeat 
>flipping backward, I take the prop and flip it, I have seen
>Dave Lockhart and others flip it by the spinner with good results. My 
>starter has dust on it since I have been running this engine.
>Earl Vincent
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: KEVIN DUNCAN
>   To: NSRCA
>   Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 11:38 PM
>   Subject: O.S. F Plug
>
>
>   I was just wondering, why do we use a 4-stroke plug in the 2-strokes? 
>Does this cause greater compression? I have trouble starting my 1.40RX due 
>to the high compression. I've used every starter available and nothing 
>works but my chicken stick! I've used a Kavan with 14.4 Volts and that 
>won't do it either.
>
>   Kevin Duncan
>   duncanbp at msn.com

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