I love swap meets!

Of course, I only get to one every year, and that’s the swap meet put on by the McMinnville RC club at the McMinnville fair grounds.  I always come home happy.  Like today.  I wandered around for four hours and picked up a few things.

I got this Ace Pacer that is almost complete.  I got it for $20.  I mainly bought this for the brand new Norvel .061 control line engine.




I also got this Hangar 9 plane complete with radio and engine for $45.  I wanted the Evo .45 engine on it, the rest was extra.  I might just take the engine off and put the rest for consignment at the local hobby shop.




I’ve been debating a wing jig for a while, and saw this N.I.B. Great Planes jig on a table.  After haggling him down to $5.00, I took it with me.





Then I wandered around searching tables and boxes and picked out assorted things I thought I could use.




On a couple of the things I found, I might have overpaid.  One was this 1-fin glow head for the Cox heat sinks.  I paid $9 for it.




The other thing was this Babe Bee engine.  For $10, I didn’t need another Bee engine, especially one with a hacked up tank.  But this engine has something that I’ve never seen before.  It has a centrifugal clutch on it. The clutch is pressed onto the splined end of the crankshaft.  This is a new one on me.  The guy selling the engine said it came out of a tank.  Has anyone seen this before?







I even got a complete set of Evans VP-2 Volksplane plans for $20.




But the best find of the day was this box.  I got it for $5.  Inside it had a couple of mufflers, a flywheel of some kind, three Wen-Mac engines, and an Enya 29 C/L engine.  

But the thing that made it worthwhile was something that I’ve been looking for.  A few months ago I said I needed a crankshaft for a Thermal Hopper.  Hiding in the box was this little gem:



Now I can fix my Thermal Hopper and get it flying.

All in all, a very good day.
The Satisfied Mark