The Engine Shop - 2005/02

SUPERTIGRE engines are back! They originated in Italy in 1948
and quickly made a winning reputation for themselves in European
power-model competition. A worldwide demand followed. And 20
years later, SuperTigre developed the first aluminum-brass-chrome
(ABC) model engines. The company has been manufacturing and
improving those ever since.
Today’s new SuperTigre engines are being made in China. The
overall quality of their materials and construction is at least 96% as
good as the earlier Italian-made engines—and the new prices are
astonishingly lower.

The Engine Shop - 2009/12

A FEW READERS wrote to me about
fuel-feed difficulties. One was Ross
McMullen of Wendell, North Carolina—a
longtime modeler and a former MA editor.
He was having trouble obtaining rich
settings on one of his Cox Medallions. He
could unscrew its needle almost all the way
without affecting the engine’s operation.
Ross solved the problem himself,
tracking it down to an accumulation of
minor restrictions in fuel flow. For one
thing, the tubing was too small. For another,
it was bent too sharply between the tank and
the spraybar.

The Engine Shop - 2004/09

IN RECENT COLUMNS I discussed the unusual valveless
four-stroke model engines made by the British RCV company
(www.rcvengines.com). The results of my tests on its RCV58-CD
(“CD” means Crankshaft Drive) impressed me so greatly that I
soon acquired one of the “in-line” engines: the RCV60-SP.
(These in-line power plants are also available in 90 and 120 cu.
in. displacements.)

The Engine Shop 2003/05

BILL BROWN died on January 8, 2003. I’m not going to write an
obituary for him here. However, I do want to point out that Bill Brown
accomplished the same thing for model-airplane engines—not once,
but twice—that Thomas Edison did for electric light. Although neither
man made the original inventions, each of these creative geniuses was
the first to come up with practical-for-production versions that anyone
could use.

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