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Re: Ugliest Model Engines?
Ivanhoe Fri Feb 10, 2012 12:44 pm
microflitedude wrote:Black Panther .60
That's the boat engine isn't it?
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Even the best...........!
Ivanhoe Fri Feb 10, 2012 12:47 pm
Even the best of manufacturers sometimes produce what can only be described as "Functional" engines!
OS 61
OS 61
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Re: Ugliest Model Engines?
microflitedude Fri Feb 10, 2012 12:56 pm
Ivanhoe wrote:microflitedude wrote:Black Panther .60
That's the boat engine isn't it?
Not sure.
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Re: Ugliest Model Engines?
GermanBeez Sat Feb 11, 2012 8:18 am
no waay!Ivanhoe wrote:No-one seems to know what this engine is, but I think it qualifies to be here!
that thing is really cute, it's not ugly at all!
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Re: Ugliest Model Engines?
Surfer_kris Sat Feb 11, 2012 10:20 am
More candidates, the POGO and PAGCO engines;
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Re: Ugliest Model Engines?
Ivanhoe Sat Feb 11, 2012 10:28 am
Surfer_kris wrote:More candidates, the POGO and PAGCO engines;
Good Grief! those really are candidates!!
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Re: Ugliest Model Engines?
mitchg95 Sat Feb 11, 2012 12:40 pm
Ivanhoe wrote:Even the best of manufacturers sometimes produce what can only be described as "Functional" engines!
OS 61
ding!ding! we have a winner!
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Re: Ugliest Model Engines?
mitchg95 Sat Feb 11, 2012 12:50 pm
ya, why wold they have the crank shaft set that way on a 2 stroke engine?
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Re: Ugliest Model Engines?
GermanBeez Sat Feb 11, 2012 12:57 pm
that tumorous thing is a gearbox 
judging from how its built, it might be a boat engine.
judging from how its built, it might be a boat engine.
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Re: Ugliest Model Engines?
Surfer_kris Sat Feb 11, 2012 1:12 pm
It is a reduction gear so that you can use a larger prop (on an airplane).
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Re: Ugliest Model Engines?
Ivanhoe Sat Feb 11, 2012 1:27 pm
Surfer_kris wrote:It is a reduction gear so that you can use a larger prop (on an airplane).
Gearboxes on model engines are always a bit weird to me, I once saw a C/L model of the British Fairey Gannet powered by a .61 engine, and it had genuine contra-rotating props on the same shaft, driven through gears. Unfortunately I never saw it fly, because I would LOVE to have know how you flick the prop to start it, with another prop, going the other way, just behind it! (This was way back before electric starters)
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mitchg95 Sat Feb 11, 2012 2:00 pm
that makes sense to me to use gear reduction for larger props
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Re: Ugliest Model Engines?
Ivanhoe Sat Feb 11, 2012 2:06 pm
Surfer_kris wrote:Are you referring to this one?
That could well be it, although I can't get your pics to open full screen to read them properly. I seem to recall now that it did have 2 engines, but it's a LONG time ago, and the memory ain't what it was!
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The ULTIMATE ugly!
Ivanhoe Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:22 am
OK folks, I finally found it, the ULTIMATE ugly engine!! And it's a diesel (I think!!)
Hows about THAT, guys and gals????
Hows about THAT, guys and gals????
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GermanBeez Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:23 am
mary, mother of god...you aren't lying... 
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Re: Ugliest Model Engines?
dckrsn Sun Feb 12, 2012 8:24 am
Wilf, I'm pretty sure that's not an engine.
Maybe a drill sharpener or something.
'Tis ugly for sure though.
Bob
Maybe a drill sharpener or something.
'Tis ugly for sure though.Bob
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GermanBeez Sun Feb 12, 2012 8:35 am
hehe, looks more like a vise than anything else
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Re: Ugliest Model Engines?
nitroairplane Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:21 am
Ivanhoe wrote:OK folks, I finally found it, the ULTIMATE ugly engine!! And it's a diesel (I think!!)
Hows about THAT, guys and gals????
Kinda like that!
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Re: Ugliest Model Engines?
Cribbs74 Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:42 am
Holy cow!
You found the ultra rare Cox Box!
Only one in existance. I would love to see it run though.
You found the ultra rare Cox Box!
Only one in existance. I would love to see it run though.
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