So, I needed some accelerator…

As most of you know who have seen my build threads, I don’t have much patience for sitting around waiting for glue to dry.  I go through a fair bit of accelerator and CA glue.  So, since I was having dinner with my wife, I stopped by the hobby shop to get a large refill bottle of accelerator as well as a roll of Circus Pink Monokote (As an aside, avoid using Neon Pink Monokote. The stuff is horrid).  

When I walked in, the guy in the car department saw me and called out, “Hey!  You like old engines, right?  What do you think of this stuff?”  So I walked over to see what he had.  The first thing I saw was this:






I asked how much and he said he didn’t know.  He was looking it up on eBay to set a price.  He said make an offer.  I offered him $75 and he said, “Okay“.  The next thing I saw was this:




He said make an offer and I said $25.  He said, “Sure.”  Looking through the box, it also had these engines:



A nice Fox 35 control line engine, a clean Fox .29 R/C engine, an O&R engine of unknown size with some missing parts, and a Cox car engine.






The box also had an old starter, a 2½ ounce Perfect tank, a couple of glow plugs, a bottle of unidentified thimbles, a couple of wheels, and a set of landing gear from some Cox airplane.  So, all totaled, I got the following for $125.00.  One of the glow plugs even glowed.




Anyone have any ideas what these ferrules are for?  They’re not C/L thimbles, and they’re all different colors.




The Impatient Mark