9 hours ago
You don’t have to upgrade the secondary shaft if you run the chain and oil bath, I ran them for over 30 years. Ran one coast to coast. Doesn’t even have to be the heavy chain for a hundred hours or so.
You don’t have to upgrade the ignition system but that would be one thing I would strongly advise. Again, I ran a distributor coast to coast, single plug, with dual point fixed points. Weak point was Mallory coil.
If this has at least a 145 engine which has 162cubic inches, you could get possibly hundreds of of hours out of it.
If the blades are what I suspect, hot glued if they are symmetrical, or even asymmetrical, with no corrosion, they can be safely run.
Probably has a 1.5 “ main shaft good for 300hrs. It’ll fly just as good as the machines today, and be 150 to 200# lighter than ones today. Frame and landing gear on these old kits are SO MUCH LIGHTER!! Plus no heavy tail drive system.
But again, condition of stuff is everything. Just calling it junk could be a big mistake. I found stuff like this that’s 25 or 30 years old that were just about as good as they were when they left AZ. RW did pack stuff pretty good. I’ve also saw stuff that was only 5,6 years old so rusty that it had to be scraped.
Problem is, everyone wants the latest stuff. If the condition of this thing is good with little rust and corrosion, it can fly with most of the stuff there for at least 100 hrs. This is a project for some young fellow with more time and labor than he has money.
You don’t have to upgrade the ignition system but that would be one thing I would strongly advise. Again, I ran a distributor coast to coast, single plug, with dual point fixed points. Weak point was Mallory coil.
If this has at least a 145 engine which has 162cubic inches, you could get possibly hundreds of of hours out of it.
If the blades are what I suspect, hot glued if they are symmetrical, or even asymmetrical, with no corrosion, they can be safely run.
Probably has a 1.5 “ main shaft good for 300hrs. It’ll fly just as good as the machines today, and be 150 to 200# lighter than ones today. Frame and landing gear on these old kits are SO MUCH LIGHTER!! Plus no heavy tail drive system.
But again, condition of stuff is everything. Just calling it junk could be a big mistake. I found stuff like this that’s 25 or 30 years old that were just about as good as they were when they left AZ. RW did pack stuff pretty good. I’ve also saw stuff that was only 5,6 years old so rusty that it had to be scraped.
Problem is, everyone wants the latest stuff. If the condition of this thing is good with little rust and corrosion, it can fly with most of the stuff there for at least 100 hrs. This is a project for some young fellow with more time and labor than he has money.