Hello everyone, it's my first post here.
Briefly, why is OS the only company building a Wankel rotary engine for R/C? I assume it must be patent issues, unless OS uses machines that are unavailable to the rest of the world.
I asked this question in another forum, and the majority of the replies involved the precision of the housing shape, the perfection of the finishes, and the quality of materials. So..the question still stands; why only OS??
What I am getting at, is CNC technology is available to anyone who can afford it. Why isn't china knocking off the OS wankel for half the price?
The good people at MECOA replied to an email about this and gave me this link. They said they made this 1.20 Wankel once and the cost was about $1200 if I remember correctly!
So any ideas why china isn't flooding the market with Wankels?
http://www.mecoa.com/hp/wr/wr.htm