Fished out this old .049 cox engine and wanted to see if it worked or not.
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@beegee223 жыл бұрын
Wow. Amazing little engine started right up! So many memories of us boys in the neighborhood with control line planes and these little engines spitting castor oil all over us. Wonderful sounds, wonderful smells!
@chich70893 жыл бұрын
Wonderful memories indeed!! Thanks for your comment, hope you find time to re live it!!! Cheers 😊
@doglegjake67885 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing a great video
@walterforero25283 жыл бұрын
Lovely 0.49 ... Undestru table... Little machine in Colombia when I was young has a lot of fun with a little U control line and free fly balsa models
@chich70893 жыл бұрын
They are little screamers! They took a lot of abuse and never disappointed the generation growing up with them! Thanks for your comment Walter...
@ayebee12074 жыл бұрын
The plucky .049 engine. I brazed a dome onto a piston. She ran tough for 2 minutes before melting the solder. I had the Baja Bug and the Stuka dive bomber. Never got the hang of U-Line Controller. Crashed thrice.
@trainliker1003 жыл бұрын
The history of Cox engines is quite interesting. And it put a vast number of these things within reach of a lot of young folks with a small budget. That crankcase that is an extrusion was a big key to lowering cost. They had made cast ones, but they cost more to make and a number of the castings had flaws and had to be scrapped. I've known a number of women who wore very fetching perfume, but no perfume quite so good as the smell of the model airplane nitro fuel.
@chich70893 жыл бұрын
Not wrong there Charles, the smell of nitro fuel sure does put a smile on ones face!! Thanks for the history too, cheers...
@jamessefton36806 ай бұрын
I had a P51 Mustang plane when I was a kid and remember it well 👍
@chich70896 ай бұрын
Every boys dream was to have that Cox plane!!
@thomasciul8932 Жыл бұрын
I've got a bunch of those. Even some rate ones. Oh how I wish they still made those little gems! Kids today don't know what there missing
@chich7089 Жыл бұрын
You're not wrong there Thomas, if it hasn't got a touch screen on it kids won't go anywhere near it!! Thanks for the comment...
@yucongwang582410 ай бұрын
So good❤
@rodneydaub38123 жыл бұрын
I mounted a .20 to a block of wood once. Whatever works. And I've used fuel that's ten years old. It always worked for me
@chich70893 жыл бұрын
No safety precautions way back then, and none now! Thanks for the comment Rodney...
@sheridanbaldwin86295 жыл бұрын
I have the same engine never been ran it's mint👌
@MF-le7fp4 жыл бұрын
Wow, thanks for this. It brought back some memories. The last time I can remember seeing one of these powering active flight, was in Texas in the mid 1980s. This video is odd to me, for two reasons. First, because it inexplicably showed up in my "feed"of recommended videos, today. I'm not a subscriber, and your channel only has 439 subs. Secondly, because (and correct me if I'm wrong), you seem to have a British accent. Which in and of itself is NOT "odd" to me. What IS odd, is that the model airplane that engine was mounted in, the last time I saw it in use back in the 80s, was a British Spitfire. Lil weird. Lol
@chich70894 жыл бұрын
Aussie accent here! That Spitfire plane you just described was the very first control line plane I had, fond memories they were way back in the late "70s early "80's. Thanks for you comment...
@MF-le7fp4 жыл бұрын
@@chich7089 Thanks for your reply, and the clarification on your accent! So your first plane powred by this awesome little engine was a Spitfire!? What are the fing odds of that? Some twilight zone 💩 right there. Well, you just hit 440 subs. I WAS just looking at videos a couple days ago on boomerangs. So maybe that had something to do with it...😄
@chich70894 жыл бұрын
@@MF-le7fp thanks mate, maybe I should put that little engine on a boomerang!!!
@MF-le7fp4 жыл бұрын
@@chich7089 Mystery solved on the feed recommendation. I watched your bug zapper mod a couple of days ago. Just finished mine. Decided to use an old taser I had laying around. Dumped everything besides the grids, and the racket handle. Rewired it using house electrical wiring. Its brutal.
@anonomyspizza4 жыл бұрын
Found something like this in the basement of somebody i knew after they died was quite recently and a have to get some things to make sure its still in running order hopefully it still works if not I'll give to somebody for parts who uses this type of engine
@dmrcflyr26 жыл бұрын
That looks like a spring starter from a Wen Mac engine
@chich70896 жыл бұрын
David McIntire, you're right, the original spring starter was put on another engine so I had to fit this one on, works fine though. The only problem is that the spring rubs onto the plastic hub after the engine starts.
@dmrcflyr26 жыл бұрын
I noticed the same drag with the starter on my Wen Mac too. A bit of a design flaw in my opinion. You might want to check out my channel. I have over 1000 original glow engine videos.
@mylittlediesels5 жыл бұрын
Looks like it's from a Sure-Start Cox? Actually, my Black Widow bought from the early 90s already had this fitted.
@ayebee12074 жыл бұрын
Balsa kit "Big Otto" airplane would not fly with the little .049 engine. Should have used OS .21
@luciendebeer55743 жыл бұрын
I used to have one, now I bought a star wars cox plane, I only cannot remember how much volt the battery has to be 6 volt I believe?
@chich70893 жыл бұрын
Collectors piece you have there! Battery voltage is 1.5 volts
@luciendebeer55743 жыл бұрын
@@chich7089 I was 12 , now I am 58, bought me a cox plane again, and how much -is- the lenght of the wires I have to use, about 20 feet?
@thedeathlybro4 жыл бұрын
What glow igniter are you using?
@ayebee12074 жыл бұрын
It uses a specific glow plug, that also is the cylinder head.
@stopbeingapatheticbitch86285 жыл бұрын
1 complete turn then release not 3.
@blue03r63 жыл бұрын
nitro doesn't go bad.
@trainliker1003 жыл бұрын
Castor oil is was the typically oil mixed in, still is in some cases, and sometimes mixed with synthetic oil, and some has only synthetic oil. The castor oil especially can get bad and a bit gummy with time.
@blue03r63 жыл бұрын
@@trainliker100 the only reason i say what i said is because byrons fuel said that in a magazine. They said keep the lid tight and it will last years
@jilkeschilteschilte53115 жыл бұрын
Wrong feul.
@davidhill56213 жыл бұрын
Its says 10% castor oil anyway
@Atakula3832 жыл бұрын
@@davidhill5621 these need 20% castor in their fuel, but one run with 10% probably won’t do any serious harm