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02-25-2012, 12:27 AM | #11 |
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Re: Engine Collectors, please ID a small engine
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We agree that it is a Cox .049 Baby Bee. With an 'awesome' Patina ! Does the glowplug glow? It will run again ! That motor mount does not remind me of anything Cox control line...??? Could it be 'weird/obscure' and valuable? Dave'crosscheck'Fallowfield Maac 6437 Unabashed Combat Team |
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Re: Engine Collectors, please ID a small engine
For those of us old enough to have grown up with these engine it's hard to get our heads around "valuable" and "collectable" in the same sentance as Cox! There was litterally thousands of them. Almost every houshold that had kids in it had a half a dozen of them kicking around.
I remember spending hours trying to get them to run & by the time you got it to run steady it was out of fuel! A spec of dust in the needle or under the reed valve had you tearing it apart - again! The brass reed valves were so easily dammaged & the newer clear plastic ones vanished when you set them down never to appear again! A pain in the butt to start & a pain in the ears when they did! Every once in a while you would get one to run good 3 or 4 times in a row, just enough to keep you interested. Somehow we aquired a fondness for them anyway! I have a 1/2 of an ice cream bucket of the little devils around for the day that my son needs a lesson in patience!
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Re: Engine Collectors, please ID a small engine
So we have a cox baby bee, with the leftover mount from a "Lil Wizard" was a control line trainer with engine attached to the profile fuselage by rubber bands so that in the event of a hard landing the engine would break away from the plane.
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Re: Engine Collectors, please ID a small engine
I have a NIB Bee here somewhere. I'll post a picture when I find it.
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Re: Engine Collectors, please ID a small engine
Wow, this was great - glimpses of my 'well'-spent youth!
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Re: Engine Collectors, please ID a small engine
yep I remember the cox fuel smell to this day,I can picture that metal can it came in ,and the funny cox battery that would die shortly after getting the engine to fire for the first time .what a Christmas present 1971 I think ,my brandy new spitfire,I cant believe my pops gave me this little terror when I was so young ,he must have known how hard they were to start LOL.I also remember being shocked how powerful it was,with the noise and slobber all over the place.yep I was hooked.
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I don't remember a lot of trouble getting them to run but then again I may have blotted out the bad memory.
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I think you're right John they actually started pretty easy,but being 9 years old, starting a cox 049 engine on DEC/25 in the bitter cold for the first time with no help was challenging .It was a different world back then though ,can you imagine giving a 9 year old something like that now . I know exactly what you mean about the hart pounding on those first flights mine was racing just getting the motor running.
sure would love to find one of those old spitfires again to give to my kid.
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Re: Engine Collectors, please ID a small engine
I had a few of the Cox models and loved to run them in the house on the dining room table. Mother was never impressed but still allowed me to do it.
I went fairly quickly into larger models that I built, mostly Sig and then Fox 15. The next year Fox 35 with 52' stainless lines, god I miss those days. Every once in awhile I have to start a Cox with some Castor based fuel and just suck in the fumes. It's amazing the memories that it brings back. Bill
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