This season is shaping up to be an exciting one! I recently acquired a DKT racing engine from a fellow racer who has been a long-term competitor in F3D and F3T.
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New Season, New Power: My DKT Racing Engine for F3T
// Stanley J. Stembera // Engines Tags: DKT, Draketuned, F3D, F3T, Pylonracing No Responses
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Ohlsson & Rice sideport (.56 and .60) engines
// Stanley J. Stembera // Engines Tags: Harry T. Rice, Irwin G. Ohlsson, O&R, Ohlsson Custom, Ohlsson Gold Seal, Ohlsson Miniature, Ohlsson Special, Side Port No Responses
Sideport vintage engines produced by Ohlsson & Rice company are the most popular and favored by the modelers. The O&R company manufactured a wide range of these sparkies between 1936 and 1949.
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Champion spark plugs
// Stanley J. Stembera // Engines Tags: Champion, Ignition, Ignition coil, Spark plug, V, V-1, V-2, V-3, VR-2 No Responses
Before this information is lost to father time I thought it might be informative to display the differences in the original Champion spark plugs installed in the old original ignition engines.
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Collector's picks – Atom engine boxes
// Stanley J. Stembera // Engines Tags: Atom, Engine box, Peter Scott 1 Response
The latest MECA Swap Sheet brought a short ad saying that Peter Scott from the United Kingdom offers replicated boxes for legendary Atom engines.
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Engines of the Golden Era – Ohlsson & Rice
// Stanley J. Stembera // Engines Tags: Irwin G. Ohlsson, Ohlsson & Rice No Responses
OHLSSON & RICE ENGINES are the product of the world’s largest manufacturers of miniature aircraft engines and are designed expressly for and intended to be used in model aircraft operation only.
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Engines of the Golden Era – Dennymite Airstream
// Stanley J. Stembera // Engines Tags: Airstream, Dennymite, Reginald Denny No Responses
Your Dennymite Airstream is a true gasoline engine of the two-cycle type and the laws governing the operation of large engines of this design apply it with equal force. While the Dennymite Airstream is simple in construction, it is precision made and has the ruggedness to give a lifetime of satisfactory service if handled with reasonable care.
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Engines of the Golden Era – Ohlsson Miniature
// Stanley J. Stembera // Engines Tags: Frank Bertelli, Irwin G. Ohlsson, Miniature, Ohlsson No Responses
Now you own an OHLSSON Miniature Radial Mounted Airplane Motor. Your motor is a precision built model power plant, the result of years of experience in building miniature motors. It has been the aim of Irwin G. Ohlsson and Frank Bertelli, builders of OHLSSON Motors, to produce an engine simple in construction, powerful, and dependable in performance.
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Engines of the Golden Era – Atwood Super Champion
// Stanley J. Stembera // Engines Tags: Bill Atwood, Champion No Responses
All Super Champion engines are bench run and tested at the factory to insure everything being in perfect working order, however, the new engine requires additional breaking in.
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Brown JR Motor – models B, C, D and M
// Stanley J. Stembera // Engines Tags: Bill Brown, Brown JR Motor, Brown Junior B, Brown Junior C, Brown Junior D, Brown Junior M No Responses
This motor features a steel cylinder and piston individually fitted, micrometer needle valve control and chrome molybdenum crank shaft. Cadmium plated and mounted on skids ready for operation. This motor is factory tested and fully guaranteed.
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Engines of the Golden Era – Brown Junior
// Stanley J. Stembera // Engines Tags: Bill Brown, Brown JR Motor, Brown Junior No Responses
Year and year out the Brown Junior Motor continues in the lead unrivalled and unsurpassed. Its performance, construction, and dependability is the ultimate in miniature engines and though many imitate, none can duplicate.