control line aircrat/diesel engines

[PУCCKAЯ_e30ka]

Hey guys, I had some spare time on my hands, no moneyz to throw at my E30.. but I still can't really just do school hw/work and look at pretty e30 pictures all day!
Soo, I got my box with airplane stuff I brought with me when I moved to US. It contains engines, couple of wing ribs, one set of control line, broken handle and bunch of old soviet literature with model drafts. I'll post some pics later if anybody is interested ;)

the engines include: 1 marz, 2 meteor, 1 kmd, 1 mk17, 3 cstkam. meteors' are plug engines, so I don't have a problem getting fuel for them. The other ones are diesel/compression engines, they require ether as an essential component. Does anybody know where I can get diesel fuel mix or ether by itself to make the fuel? Or anybody know a good control line/diesel engine aircraft forum where people would know?

[Massive Lee]

Cool. Are we talking about aircrafts going round and round? I don't think it is diesel. If I remember from my younger days of playing with airplanes and dune buggies (I had tons of those fuel powered toys), combustible is a mix of castor oil and methanol (alcohol).

"There are two types of oil used in today's model airplane fuel for glow engines. The original oil used was (and still is) castor oil. This is produced from the castor bean and makes an excellent lubricant. It maintains its lubricating qualities at high temperatures and gives good engine protection during lean runs. The disadvantage of castor is that it causes carbon build up inside the engine. This means that the carbon deposits have to be periodically cleaned from the engine, particularly from the combustion chamber and the top of the piston.

The other type is the synthetic oil. The modern synthetic oil has all the qualities of castor oil and it does not cause carbon build up. There is much discussion regarding the type of oil to use in rc airplanes and maybe as a result of this controversy, fuel manufacturers offer a blend of synthetic and castor oils."

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Here: http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...7p?CATEGORY=PE

[BigD]

Cool. Are we talking about aircrafts going round and round? I don't think it is diesel. If I remember from my younger days of playing with airplanes and dune buggies (I had tons of those fuel powered toys), combustible is a mix of castor oil and methanol (alcohol).

No it's diesel. No one here runs that because the methanol and even gasoline engines are so relatively cheap. Not so much for a Russian.

Here's an Mk17, I had one when I was a kid in Russia, note the top:




This is my current toy:

[Massive Lee]

Hey Dmitry. So there are indeed diesel RC engines? What is the difference with the usual glow plug engines we use here?

Lee

[BigD]

Hey Dmitry. So there are indeed diesel RC engines? What is the difference with the usual glow plug engines we use here?

Lee

Yeah. Well main difference is the fuel obviously, it's a mix of ether and diesel, they're compression engines. I've also never seen a throttled one. They're usually used for control-line models, so they're full throttle until they run out of fuel. But that's probably only because guys who can afford to build an RC model can afford to buy a glow/spark engine.

[xLibelle]

treadmill?