Gas to Glow Conversion; How to do it ?

[CRG]

Gene Barton makes aluminum glow adapters, you can get them from him here: http://www.genebarton.com/

Zenoah makes steel adapters, available at www.horizonhobby.com.

Craig.

[rdgood]

Nickolay,

I have had several engines converted to methanol.
Yes it can be done.
Yes you need to take care of the carbs-
Yes you need to be careful of which kind of oil you use.

Before there were DA's and 3W's all over the place the only engine to convert was the Tartan twin. I don't know if he is around anymore but Bob Ousley in Alva Florida used to do conversions all the time. I had 3.00 cube tartan twin on Methanol and tuned pipes that did very well.

I sold my last converted motor about a year ago -
Although - I had Bob Kline do the conversion on my 3.2 Brison. Very lite when converted to methanol and way more power than 3w or DA. I experimented with
several different fuels. The best one I found was using Bully Tartan fuel - I think it has a about 5% Nitro in the fuel. It was green tinted. It had the best idle and the additional nitro aided in a better midrange transition.

The Brison 3.2 ran like a scalded pig at hi end. Although - it was tempermental on cold days.

To be honest the giant scale racers may have more up to date info than I do.
Running methanol is kinda like a lost art. Its just to easy to buy a DA or 3W and get reliable power nowadays - Not to mention you do have to carry a bigger fuel load in teh planer methanol motors do digest more fuel per cube.

Good luck in your methanol adventure - be ready to really learn your motor from every aspect. Also - I think that some conversions they actually put extra gaskets underneath the jug to reduce compression.

Hope this helps,

Ronster

[NikolayTT]

Hi tmac48,

Yesterday I have received the adapter and that fits almost to the McGulloch, only
small work is needed to fit perfectly. Thank you very much. I will prepare for the
test and run the engine as soon as weather permits; now it is still lot of degrees
below the freezing point (-18deg.C). By the way, what kind of test strategy you
would reccomend ? My idea is to run the same propellers on both fuels using for
the Gazoline the Valbro Carb, and for the methanol the Carb of my OS BGX-1,
and the list of propelers I have is: 20x10, 20x8, 18x10, 18x8, 18x6, 17x6, 16x8,
16x6, 15x6, 14x10, maybe too many anyway ? I am not sure if you follow this
forum; thus I will post is as E-mail to you too.
Best Regards,
Nikolay