My £3.85 Nitro engine pre-heater,

[Dandare]

Ingredients:

1 x 12v H7 Car headlamp bulb
1 x small tin of sweetcorn (emptied of course)
1 x 12v bulb connector plug (the £3.85 bit)
1 x S/Steel jubilee clip
1 x piece of thick wire for a handle
2 x crocodile clips & wire







Thought i'd share as it seems to work well. 3-4min warm up & i can't touch the engine for heat ! It cools down within a minute or so. Don't have a temp gauge though would be intersting to know how hot the engine gets.

Just finished running in a new engine using it & it never failed to start on the 1st pull.

I know you'd hardly sell one looking like this, lol, but it was cheap as chips

[DavidAMS]

nice idea, i used a hair dryer for my cen nemesis, but never worked as well as i would have liked.. your mod is a great helper when breaking in tight sleeved engines.
would be nice to know what temp it gets too??

[longy8ight]

i like this and im going to make one cheers for the idea

[Therepairman]

Clean it up a bit and put some high temp paint on it and count me in. It looks like a great idea to have one since I'm just getting into nitro engines. Might have to pick one up for the tool box!

[Steven Forster]

check out the links for ready made engine heaters...........

http://rcsurestart.co.uk/

and

http://www.competitionheat.com/

[longy8ight]

yeah seen thos engine heaters thats why i think this is a cool idea.You get an engine heater but you dont have to spend silly money. win win in my eyes

[caneye]

i like it

what do u use as the 12v power supply? just your normal car batt? gel cell?

[Dandare]

Originally Posted by caneye

i like it

what do u use as the 12v power supply? just your normal car batt? gel cell?

I just use the 12v battery on my (real) car.