1980's .21 engine from the Netherlands/USE
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 12:13 pm
I recently bought a Serpent Sprint 6000 series 1/8 on-road car from 1984 0r 85, made in Holland. I did not purchase it for the car itself, but for the engine. It had a USE 3.5ccm engine installed, including paperwork from the factory (which was in Utrecht, the Netherlands) with an accompanying letter which said that the receiver of the engine was to have it for free and if he wanted to comment on the performance and reliability as the race-season progressed. As I understand it only a few really talented drivers were handed the first batch of engines for free.
The unique feature of these engines is that the cilindersleeve is integrated with the lower half of the cooling head. USE started making engines first for line-controlled flight, and later developed a car version.
I got mine together with some spares like new cilinders and cooling heads and a piston and spare crankshaft. The aluminum cilinders are coated on the inside with a hard-wearing coating.
By the way, the exhaust pipe is also a Dutch product, made by de Ridder. De Ridder also made model engines, and with the same integrated sleeve design!
Here are some pics. I took the whole thing apart and cleaned it. Bearings were still as new.
The unique feature of these engines is that the cilindersleeve is integrated with the lower half of the cooling head. USE started making engines first for line-controlled flight, and later developed a car version.
I got mine together with some spares like new cilinders and cooling heads and a piston and spare crankshaft. The aluminum cilinders are coated on the inside with a hard-wearing coating.
By the way, the exhaust pipe is also a Dutch product, made by de Ridder. De Ridder also made model engines, and with the same integrated sleeve design!
Here are some pics. I took the whole thing apart and cleaned it. Bearings were still as new.
