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Thread: Sandown 2013 Photos
26/12/2013 20:51:40

Gentlemen, an update on the Tiger engine - it was terminal, however I won't exactly know what blew until it gets back down under in February.

From my perspective, the show was fantastic and the visitors even more so. Perhaps this is because shows down here and elsewhere in the world, even the USA, are much smaller and dare I say, less professional.

I guess the reason you blokes are spoilt for choice with model engineering shows is that you were the people who bought us the industrial revolution, international commerce, cricket and the steam locomotive.


Gerard Dean

Thread: V12 german tank at model engineers Sandown Park
26/12/2013 08:47:26

Hello Gentlemen

Thanks for the kind comments. You are right, I lost timing on the left bank on Friday (after running well for 30 hours) and it took me several hours to find the problem. Mike Tull who exhibited the superb radial engine helped trace the problem to a slipped distributor rotor button.

On Saturday it ran well until the evening when it really blew its guts. I think that the crank cracked when it was running on 6 cylinders. I won't find out what the exact problem is until February when the Tiger arrives back in Australia. I will be as interested as you to find out what broke.

Thanks

Gerard Dean, Glen Iris, Australia

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