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Forum: Glow Engines
12-16-2011, 08:39 AM
Replies: 54,883
Views: 5,430,230
Posted By donkey doctor

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Saito's ts90 twin; I have a few questions.

Are the heads one piece with the barrells? Is the camshaft ball-bearing supported? Do they oil their camshaft well?

I have heard that they are...
Forum: Glow Engines
12-21-2009, 10:50 PM
Replies: 54,883
Views: 5,430,230
Posted By donkey doctor

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Hello and Merry Christmas all; I have many Saitos of nearly all sizes, and am happy with all of them. Now I'd like to try a Saito gas experience. I'd like it to be successful. I thought that to...
Forum: Glow Engines
11-19-2009, 10:18 PM
Replies: 54,883
Views: 5,430,230
Posted By donkey doctor

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Hello; Starting a stiff new 150 can be quite a task; I have had success with a normal starter if you start with the carb closed, and as it's spinning open the throttle.

That way things ca get...
Forum: Glow Engines
11-04-2009, 12:09 PM
Replies: 54,883
Views: 5,430,230
Posted By donkey doctor

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Hello; I watched a fellow, at our field, assemble his plane, a decathlon, fill the tank, range check the rtadio, then connect the glow driver and had the engine start withour touching it. He had...
Forum: Glow Engines
10-07-2009, 12:31 PM
Replies: 54,883
Views: 5,430,230
Posted By donkey doctor

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Hello Raven; I use shrinking wire insulation for the bottom of the push rod tubes, and regular o-rings for the top. Any auto parts store (that's any good) will have a huge o-ring kit that you can...
Forum: Glow Engines
10-06-2009, 06:05 PM
Replies: 54,883
Views: 5,430,230
Posted By donkey doctor

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Hello; I have all those 40/45/50/56/62 Saitos. I built a little bracket out of a piece of the cutter strip on a wax paper roller, I can'ty find the picture, but basically, it is a broad triangle...
Forum: Glow Engines
12-08-2008, 12:31 PM
Replies: 54,883
Views: 5,430,230
Posted By donkey doctor

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Hello Walther; I have had great success buying parts from Steve
Webb in England, the people there know their stock and have quite a bit of
old and unusual parts for Saito and Enya. I don't...
Forum: Glow Engines
11-27-2008, 01:21 PM
Replies: 54,883
Views: 5,430,230
Posted By donkey doctor

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Hello Balsaeater; You can get vise grips on the side of the cylinder hold down screws, clamp them down tight then loosen them off. They oly have to move a little to get them started.
Forum: Glow Engines
08-28-2008, 05:45 PM
Replies: 54,883
Views: 5,430,230
Posted By donkey doctor

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Hello Wild; Sounds good to me. I think you can trust your tach, as that is about what I get with my 56, and atmospheric conditions must be similar although I'm on the Island and we all boast of the...
Forum: Glow Engines
03-27-2008, 10:45 AM
Replies: 54,883
Views: 5,430,230
Posted By donkey doctor

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

HELLO; I put my Saito club number on my Funtana 100, I looked through my pictures and can't find a picture of it.

I also have a few other planes on the same channel (12) which I have marked...
Forum: Glow Engines
03-01-2008, 10:46 PM
Replies: 54,883
Views: 5,430,230
Posted By donkey doctor

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Hello; regarding pipe vs. corrugated flex pipe. My experience has been that there is no noticable performance difference. I have tried both on the 50, 56, and 80 singles and the 100 twin. One...
Forum: Glow Engines
10-25-2007, 01:27 PM
Replies: 54,883
Views: 5,430,230
Posted By donkey doctor

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Hello; All Saito engines have a total loss oiling system, where all the oil that goes into the engine comes out of the engine. Whether it comes out the exhaust or the crankcase vent is immaterial. ...
Forum: Glow Engines
10-13-2007, 07:24 PM
Replies: 54,883
Views: 5,430,230
Posted By donkey doctor

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Hello; Cap'n Lou I get all metric hardware from a local auto supply store, They all stock metrics nowadays. You could even get metric nylock nuts. If you only need one or two they usually don't...
Forum: Glow Engines
10-11-2007, 09:11 PM
Replies: 54,883
Views: 5,430,230
Posted By donkey doctor

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Hello; I used an ole OS 90 four stroke in my 4 star 60. I tried a saito 80 at first, but I had to put an extra pound in the front to balance the plane. The 90 pulls a bigf prop, and if I want to...
Forum: Glow Engines
09-04-2007, 11:46 AM
Replies: 54,883
Views: 5,430,230
Posted By donkey doctor

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Hello; A friend brought over two older Saitos for me to go through. He hadn't run either engine for 10 years and was just completing a couple of planes for the Saitos. One was an older 45 Mk 2 and...
Forum: Glow Engines
07-28-2007, 07:43 PM
Replies: 54,883
Views: 5,430,230
Posted By donkey doctor

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Hello Hobbsy; I would have thought you would have preffered a horizontal twin rather then a V, like the BMW I ride. I had an iron headed Sporty back in the sixties, didn't like it much. I know...
Forum: Glow Engines
05-30-2007, 11:55 AM
Replies: 54,883
Views: 5,430,230
Posted By donkey doctor

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Hello Jim; If you have the valves set at .004, the cam has to turn a little bit more to raise the valve off the seat then it would have to turn if it was set at .0015. Therefore opening duration is...
Forum: Glow Engines
05-28-2007, 11:20 AM
Replies: 54,883
Views: 5,430,230
Posted By donkey doctor

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Hello Ernie; It was Permatex liquid teflon we had, we used to call it gorrila snot. I don't know about the temperature handling abilities of the stuff, but the rock n' roll says it's good for up to...
Forum: Glow Engines
05-24-2007, 11:42 AM
Replies: 54,883
Views: 5,430,230
Posted By donkey doctor

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Hello Ernie; In my former carreer as a mechanic, I used a good size bucket of that liquid plumbers tape, as well as a few miles of the tape. I wouldn't use the goop in a spot that was obvious, only...
Forum: Glow Engines
05-10-2007, 08:25 PM
Replies: 54,883
Views: 5,430,230
Posted By donkey doctor

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Hello Hobbsy; Oh, now I understand! That looks like a defective head to me, maybe Horizpn might want to replace that one under warrantee. I know how many Saito engines you have and if you were my...
Forum: Glow Engines
05-10-2007, 01:58 PM
Replies: 54,883
Views: 5,430,230
Posted By donkey doctor

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Hello; Not a very good picture, but (I hope) you get the idea. I think I used a bit of the stainless steel cutter that comes with a roll of waxed paper. By the way, this repair is about eight...
Forum: Glow Engines
04-07-2007, 11:41 AM
Replies: 54,883
Views: 5,430,230
Posted By donkey doctor

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Hello Hobbsy; Happy birthday. I hope this is Saito related;

I was trying to tune an old OS FS 40, and blew through the vent hose to prime the engine. The pressure forced a bit of old fuel...
Forum: Glow Engines
04-06-2007, 03:36 PM
Replies: 54,883
Views: 5,430,230
Posted By donkey doctor

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Hello; Is this club Saito?

Where do I go for Saito help?

I don't see much Saito here any more.
Forum: Glow Engines
03-14-2007, 08:10 PM
Replies: 54,883
Views: 5,430,230
Posted By donkey doctor

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Hello; About that 325 radial; time each cylinder to it's own tdc. That means that each piston is timed individually when the camshaft is installed for that cyl. Sounds like lots of work, easy...
Forum: Glow Engines
01-06-2007, 07:35 PM
Replies: 54,883
Views: 5,430,230
Posted By donkey doctor

RE: Welcome to Club SAITO !

Hello; imsofaman; What would you like to know? I have 4 of those 45's and think that they might be the best all time four stroke model airplane engine. You can use 5 to 30 per cent nitro, even 0%...
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