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Estes Blunders
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Estes Blunders
Since Estes mixed a lot of different engine parts, you never know what you are going to get. The only oops I have came across was a DC sure start with a regular reed retainer and not the larger red retainer, it had the correct gasket though. I have also found a sure start with a unfinished glow head, it looked fine from the outside but there was no element nor does it look like a element was ever installed. What have you come across or read about?
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i read that I think Matt found .051 piston wedged into a .049 cylinder.
i have found metal shavings in over 5 engines including a .010
i have found metal shavings in over 5 engines including a .010
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nitroairplane wrote:i read that I think Matt found .051 piston wedged into a .049 cylinder.
i have found metal shavings in over 5 engines including a .010
Oh yeah, I have found some shavings (good sized ones) in a few sure starts before.
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On that note, Japanese engine manufacturers recommend a through inspection before running an engine.
BTW, QC is more Japanese than American. Been there to see it. Don't tell me that the Japanese are just "copiers" That's more of an attribute of the Chinese.
SD
BTW, QC is more Japanese than American. Been there to see it. Don't tell me that the Japanese are just "copiers" That's more of an attribute of the Chinese.
SD
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Admin wrote:nitroairplane wrote:i read that I think Matt found .051 piston wedged into a .049 cylinder.
i have found metal shavings in over 5 engines including a .010
Oh yeah, I have found some shavings (good sized ones) in a few sure starts before.
but that is not the worst thing i once found shavings 1 or 2 mm large inside the crankcase of an AE .1cc an engine made England in small numbers and i payed a pretty penny for it but that engine has never nu for more than 2 mins at a time despit over 1.5 days worth of combined time trying to start it.
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nitroairplane wrote:i read that I think Matt found .051 piston wedged into a .049 cylinder.
i have found metal shavings in over 5 engines including a .010
Yeah, at first I was thinking it would be cool to have another spare 051 piston, then I realized it was ruined by being pressed into the 049 cylinder lol.
Matt
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EXModelEngines wrote:nitroairplane wrote:i read that I think Matt found .051 piston wedged into a .049 cylinder.
i have found metal shavings in over 5 engines including a .010
Yeah, at first I was thinking it would be cool to have another spare 051 piston, then I realized it was ruined by being pressed into the 049 cylinder lol.
Matt
Now if it was the other way around .051 cylinder (TD, Killer Bee or maybe a lost and forgotten NFFS medallion cylinder) with a .049 piston in it. That would be cool!
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HEY not in the .05 that sits with a halo around it
The only reason I can bunk Estes is I only bought their rockets, two of them. For 8th grade science. One of them blew off one of its three fins on launch and I did not attribute it to my building skills as I did to their engineering skill. When I thought about what happened, it only made sense not to hang a half a sheet of 1/16" balsa on the outer end of a fin edged glued to a piece of cardboard tube and launch it as fast as a shotgun. That's eigth grade science.
The only reason I can bunk Estes is I only bought their rockets, two of them. For 8th grade science. One of them blew off one of its three fins on launch and I did not attribute it to my building skills as I did to their engineering skill. When I thought about what happened, it only made sense not to hang a half a sheet of 1/16" balsa on the outer end of a fin edged glued to a piece of cardboard tube and launch it as fast as a shotgun. That's eigth grade science.
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jetpack wrote:HEY not in the .05 that sits with a halo around it
The only reason I can bunk Estes is I only bought their rockets, two of them. For 8th grade science. One of them blew off one of its three fins on launch and I did not attribute it to my building skills as I did to their engineering skill. When I thought about what happened, it only made sense not to hang a half a sheet of 1/16" balsa on the outer end of a fin edged glued to a piece of cardboard tube and launch it as fast as a shotgun. That's eigth grade science.
Don't bother with any of them especially the small ones. I have yet to see one have a successful flight...
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microflitedude wrote:jetpack wrote:HEY not in the .05 that sits with a halo around it
The only reason I can bunk Estes is I only bought their rockets, two of them. For 8th grade science. One of them blew off one of its three fins on launch and I did not attribute it to my building skills as I did to their engineering skill. When I thought about what happened, it only made sense not to hang a half a sheet of 1/16" balsa on the outer end of a fin edged glued to a piece of cardboard tube and launch it as fast as a shotgun. That's eigth grade science.
Don't bother with any of them especially the small ones. I have yet to see one have a successful flight...
Want to put one of their rocket motors (or 5) on my losi micro sct
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Another Estes epic fail horror story.
http://coxengineforum.forumakers.com/t22-killer-bee-97
http://coxengineforum.forumakers.com/t22-killer-bee-97
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