How Start Schnuerle-Ported Engine Problem Earl Stahl designed 1941 Free Flight model Fokker DVIII Ohlsson 23 adequate pull lightweight model skyward Forty years later wanted duplicate model radio control Mine heavier opted popular K&B 28 engine bench-mounted primed flipped prop Nothingit wouldnt start mounted spinner used electric starter Squeak still wouldnt start couldnt start engine brand new whenever venturi intake primed choked per instructions liquid seemed lie lower crankcase squirt directly cylinder onto glow plug Brrrrp-brrrrp Nothing fuel added intake crankcase would liquid lock starter motor would simply burn around spinner seemed though forcing rotation might bend rod avoided seemed cure situation remove glow plug rotate engine starter blow off reinstall plug try again would run long fuel wasnt added intake starting balky engine Loren Dietrich After several attempts consistent starts wanting wear out plug threads decided try old aircraft remedy flooding cranked engine backwards number times engine surprised starting running backward moderate rpm suddenly kicking forward rotation Aba Solution following routine use flying field get engine started several flips Put clamp fuel line before refueling prevent fuel running intake use soldering heat-sink clamp could use hemostat clamp blocks fuel flow Fill fuel tank prime directly combustion chamber through hole drilled muffler adaptor Position prop clockwise against compression squirting fuel Rock prop off compression briefly let fuel run rock prop against compres sion squirting fuel Rock prop off compression briefly let fuel run rock prop against compression prime intakenow ever Open throttle /32 opening barrel Clip starting battery onto glow plug Using chicken stick engines bite flip prop clockwise should start promptly run backward briefly reverse proper rotation Quickly remove clamp fuel line remove glow-plug battery Adjust needle valve Its running fuel somehow found its way crankcase arggh remove glow plug place rag loosely over plug hole spin fuel out Reinstall plug repeat starting procedure time should go Lets fly n Die trich 192 W Palm Reedley CA 93654 October 1996 67 TWIDIthe authors acronym Way Did Heres TWIDI for