After a couple beautiful flights on a gorgeous, calm, beautiful day, I
went HIGH to attempt a snap-roll/spin and...

the damned muffler fell off! Gone for ever, but not forgotten. Now I'm grounded until I can locate a muffler for that particular engine....

Well, I've not been flying much recently, due to ongoing hospital duties,
so I guess there's no reason for me to complain.


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"Angus Mcleod" <angus.mcleod@VERT/ANJO> wrote in message news:414CD96E.113.hobbies@mybbs.com...

After a couple beautiful flights on a gorgeous, calm, beautiful day, I
went HIGH to attempt a snap-roll/spin and...

the damned muffler fell off! Gone for ever, but not forgotten. Now I'm grounded until I can locate a muffler for that particular engine....

Well, I've not been flying much recently, due to ongoing hospital duties,
so I guess there's no reason for me to complain.

When I was a kid.........
lol
When I started flying my ringmaster with a fox 35 the local flight guys said that I need a muffler. :-( so at the old wise age of 13 I took some 3/8
coper tubing and cap (Plumbing) and soldered them together. then stuffed
some cotton inside. I ended up gluing it to the side of the tubing. I then poked a pencil inside to made room for the exaust to get out. I then used my dremel tool to cut a slot in the side of the tubing that matched the exaust port in the engine. Since there were no screw holes in the engine. I then
used bailing wire to attach it to the engine. I tightened it down till it
was very snug.

Now before you stop laughing.
I did try duck tape but as soon as the engine got hot the tape pealed off. I did several bench tests to see what worked the best before i went to the
flight field.

The home made muffler worked for many years.
The muffler is still attached to the engine to this day. LOL
But the plane is retired. Too many one point (nose cone) landings. outside portion of the main wing finaly said I'm outa here. The inboard portion
managed to hang in there. I think it was because of the control lines. You
do remember U control planes don't you?

They say that necessity is the mother of invention.
Some times necessity is just a mother.

my .02 cents.

Artiken

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Re: Re: TT Muffler: Bye-bye :
By: Artiken to All on Sun Sep 19 2004 11:55:00

The home made muffler worked for many years.

The whole point of modelling is that you can probably do a better job than some factory somewhere -- and enjoy yourself at the same time!

The muffler is still attached to the engine to this day. LOL
But the plane is retired. Too many one point (nose cone) landings.

I know about them. So does DM! :-)

outside portion of the main wing finaly said I'm outa here. The inboard portion managed to hang in there. I think it was because of the control lines. You do remember U control planes don't you?

You mean Control Line flying? The "Let's all get dizzy together" aspect
of modelling? No. I've seen it, but I never had the /slightest/ interest
in C/L flying. Nor F/F. I've heard the old-timers on how wonderful it
was, but I note that they all have big Futaba rigs now, and none of them
are spinning around and around waiting for a line to break...

WRT my lost muffler -- research has turned up four candidates for use as replacements. One of the cheapest (and strongest) is known to actually produce more power with my motor! So I guess I'll be buying one of
those...


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Re: Re: TT Muffler: Bye-bye :
By: Angus Mcleod to Artiken on Sun Sep 19 2004 09:47 pm

The muffler is still attached to the engine to this day. LOL
But the plane is retired. Too many one point (nose cone) landings.

I know about them. So does DM! :-)

Hey, I resemble that remark! :-)

digital man

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The average raindrop falls at 7mph.

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