Model Forum / Radio Controlled / Air Models / June 2005

Don't know about that, but I find a squirt of model ether based model engine
fuel very good at freeing up engines which haven't been run for years -
apply via venturi, plug hole (if glow) exhaust ports if accessible and leave
for an hour or two then add a few drops more and the engine will turn over
very easily. I can't guarantee that there will be no damage e.g. flats on
ball bearings, but any engine I've treated this way has always run be it a
diesel or a glow engine.

Malcolm

A guy I knew in a club I belonged to used to tie a string onto his
engines and drop them into a tub of Derv for storage, he'd been doing
it for years with no ill effects.  Sounds perfectly reasonable
regardless, derv is oil.