[Vwdiesel] RE: [Audi-VW-Diesels] Fuel return line

Harmon Seaver hseaver at cybershamanix.com
Mon Jan 21 14:51:14 EST 2002


   No, there are model diesel engines and model glow plug engines. And
model spark plug engines. Most people into models are familiar with the
glow plug engines, but both the others have been around for ages, at
least 40-50 years.
   People even run them on biodiesel!
http://www.veggievan.org/biodiesel/plane.html

Nate Wall wrote:
>
> ** Proprietary **
>
> <<<<Wait wait wait,  model airplane tubing is fine.  just make sure you get
> the kind that is for 'smoke oil' or diesel model engines' it is called
> tygon, typically comes in yellow see thru, and is cheap.  like 1 dollar
> per foot.  Tygon is the brand name most model stores carry.>>>>>
>
> Diesel, as used w/ model airplane engines just referrs to compression ignition (via hot wire).  These are the Cox methanol/nitromethane w/ castor oil fueled engines w/ the glow plug (platinum wire coil) in the cylinder head.  Nothing to do w/ diesel fuel or oil.
>
> --Nate
>
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