Watched your video. I believe your starting
and running issue is ignition rather than the
carb setting. Points gap may be too small or
too large. Points have been bent and are not
in the correct location to the latch. If you’re
using a 6 volt battery it needs to be fully
charged to 6.3 volts or higher.
Tubs
Well, I thought I figured it out but after what I found, I don’t know.
First run this evening I ran it without changing anything. Started after 10 or so flips, often not having enough power after first flip, and started running ccw. But after a few tries I got it running. It did t run too great, missing at low speed
Second run found that the points were 0.011, so I set it to 0.008. Started first flip and ran pretty good.
I ran it back to the dock, and took the flywheel off to check on things, and to see if the spring was bent. Put it together, and went for another run but it wouldn’t start. Popped and tried to run ccw when I didn’t want it to, so I swapped the battery terminals from + to – and – to + , to + to + and – to -.
Amazing it ran great and started first flip.
I looked back on my videos from the 1st and 2nd run. On 1st, opposite wiring, a on 2nd, normal wiring. Whether or not setting point gap did anything, I do not know for sure but I assume it does.
I plan on bending the spring so the two parts don’t touch when resting ( as I learned from Chris scratch).
I don’t know why the polarity changed anything, as it was my understanding that it shouldn’t. Either way I hope to figure out why it is acting weird.
First pic: my timer. Second pic: Chris’s timer
