YS Engines

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Needle valve socket worn out or end of needle valve badly grooved. Most likely the socket is worn out.
Ed M.

----- Original Message -----
From: Bob <Bob at enduremed.com>
Date: Monday, March 29, 2004 11:45 am
Subject: RE: YS Engines

> Eric and the gang:
> 
> Consider the following:
> 
>    YS 120 (Don't know whether AC, SC, NC, or any other 
> designation YS may
> have)
>    Runs great top end and idle and transition
>    Needle valve is bottomed out, all the way in for near peak 
> power (still
> a tiny bit rich)
> 
> Question:  What's the problem with the needle valve?
> 
> Thanks guys in advance for any advice.
> 
> Bob
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henderson,Eric [Eric.Henderson at gartner.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 10:03 AM
> To: discussion at nsrca.org
> Subject: RE: YS Engines
> 
> 
> 
> To answer the question. "Ok, time for another newbie question: it 
> seems to
> me from the discussion and contest results and a few copies of the 
> K factor
> that Kane gave me at the D4 contest last year that pattern pilots 
> prefer YS
> engines, yet YS engines don't seem to dominate in other kinds of
> flying(IMAC, scale, fun fly, etc). Um, why? 
> 
> > 
> 
> >   Ed Hernandez "
> 
> basically:-
> 1. YS engines are too small for IMAC and teasingly so too quiet :-)
> 2. Fun Fly's are not a 1.40 type event if you are talking wild tasks?
> 3. Scale is not an engine power event.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Eric.
> 
> Message to Ed Hartley - I can't seem to stop these mail loops. I 
> get bunches
> of reject messages and b=never see my own posts. I will unsubscribe
> accordingly.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [discussion-request at nsrca.org]On
> Behalf Of Dean Pappas
> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 9:48 AM
> To: discussion at nsrca.org
> Subject: RE: YS Engines
> 
> 
> 
> Ah yes! ... the subtle distinction between complication and 
> sophistication.Do you notice, though, that the guys who had their 
> 4-Cs running well art
> generally the guys with the nicely running 2-Cs?
> The question is not, "What to run?", but, "How to run it?"
> Somewhere at the beginning of this thread, someone asked what he 
> should run
> ... and one workable answer might be to latch onto someone local 
> who has got
> his act together, and learn from him. This may not involve 
> duplication,either.
> 
> Regards, 
>    Dean
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Hunt [flyintexan at houston.rr.com]
> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 11:46 PM
> To: discussion at nsrca.org
> Subject: Re: YS Engines
> 
> 
> Simplicity is not a word you want attached to your high-tech pattern
> aircraft anyway....
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Lance Van Nostrand <')" >patterndude at comcast.net>  
> To: discussion at nsrca.org <')" >discussion at nsrca.org>  
> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 10:40 PM
> Subject: Re: YS Engines
> 
> Jim,
> I'll bet by now you can assemble and disassemble the 15 moving 
> parts that
> make up just the head of that engine with your eyes closed.  It's 
> a zen like
> procedure that brings comfort and joy.  
>  My engine only has one part (glow plug) and it doesn't move.  
> while you're
> doing that I'll have to find something else to tinker 
> with....[where's the
> wife.....]
> --Lance
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: jim ivey <')" >jivey61 at msn.com>  
> To: discussion at nsrca.org <')" >discussion at nsrca.org>  
> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 10:28 PM
> Subject: Re: YS Engines
> 
> 
> Lance 
> 
> Guess I am getting soothed then. I just started the 3rd rebuild on 
> a YS
> 140L.It has 450 flights on it.
> 
> Jim Ivey
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> jivey61 at msn.com <')" >jivey61 at msn.com>  
> >From: "Lance Van Nostrand" < patterndude at comcast.net
> <')" >patterndude at comcast.net> > 
> >Reply-To: discussion at nsrca.org <')" >discussion at nsrca.org>  
> >To: < discussion at nsrca.org <')" >discussion at nsrca.org> > 
> >Subject: Re: YS Engines 
> >Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:24:32 -0600 
> > 
> >Ed, 
> >Pattern guys love to tinker. If they are not adjusting something, 
> replacingsomething, or doing periodic maintenance, they feel lost. 
> Therefore, YS
> engines help soothe the pattern mind. 
> >--Lance 
> > 
> >   ----- Original Message ----- 
> >   From: Edward C. Hernandez 
> >   To: discussion at nsrca.org 
> >   Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 9:55 PM 
> >   Subject: YS Engines 
> > 
> > 
> >      Ok, time for another newbie question: it seems to me from the
> discussion and contest results and a few copies of the K factor 
> that Kane
> gave me at the D4 contest last year that pattern pilots prefer YS 
> engines,yet YS engines don't seem to dominate in other kinds of 
> flying(IMAC, scale,
> fun fly, etc). Um, why? 
> > 
> >   Ed Hernandez 
> 
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