Setting Up, Operating and Maintaining Model Aircraft Engines
Having a reliable power system in your model airplane is critical to your fun if not the aircraft's health. The power system should be dependable, consistent and provide years of service with little maintenance or tinkering.
The average sport airplane is designed to have the engine and tank installed as ideally as possible while providing good access to the engine for maintenance.
These pages should help you avoid confusion as to what you need, what you do not need and to dispel some myths. Hopefully this information will get you on the right track by helping you avoid problems or wasting money.
I e-mailed Clarence Lee, the Engine Clinic columnist for Radio Control Modeler magazine, and asked if he would use some of his valuable time to read over these pages to ensure the information I am providing is correct. He replied with excellent feedback that I have included in sidebars on the appropriate pages.
The following pages give specific information about engine mounting, propellers, spinners, throttle linkages, fuel tanks, lines, fuel and air filters, hand starting or using an electric starter and general maintenance suggestions.
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