Weed eater deal @ Lowe's

[JWC]

In fact I've been thinking about what to do with my old weedeater's engine, I'm not sure if it would be worth rebuilding it or not since I only paid $79 at Walmart for it, but since it still starts & runs maybe I can make a little emergency generator or something out of it ... any ideas?

I just pile them and cheap blowers up on a pallet in my back yard and eventually carry them to the scrap yard, lol. Maybe I should try ebaying engines as RC engines.

[RichardR]

A mega-scale RC would be pretty sweet, most of mine are 1/8th & 1/10th scale & chug down nitromethane like it isn't $30 a gallon so a regular gasoline fueled RC truck would be nice to have & a lot cheaper to keep fueled LOL.

Building a 1/5th scale from scratch would be a fairly expensive proposition though ...

[Schadenfreude]

Those do get used on large rc planes sometimes

[Krull]

I have a troy built i bought two years ago -- not a single hiccup -- starts on the third pull every time -- guess its hit or miss.  before that i had a weed eater brand i bought at walmart i gave away when i moved to arkansas -- it worked fine for 8 years not a hiccup.