COX Super Sport Trainer

rsv1cox wrote:
I have never thought to see and hold this in my hands again.

I have many like that Andras that I will probably never fly.  I just like to look at them.  We are just caretakers after all.  

Bob

balogh wrote:

rsv1cox wrote:
I have never thought to see and hold this in my hands again.

I have many like that Andras that I will probably never fly.  I just like to look at them.  We are just caretakers after all.  

Bob

You are right Bob, we fiddle with them and take care of them because they deserve.... and we deserve..jut too bad to even think of what their destiny will be after we are gone.

MauricioB wrote:I always wonder: ... what will happen next? .... then I am seeing if eBay sells years of life. ... hahaha able to buy some reserve hahaha

balogh wrote:Lookie lookie what the postman has just delivered to my door !!!!!!





My childhood one-and-only COX plane a brother of which I bought from a UK ebayer now, i.e. 45 years later. The guy got this model around the same time as I in 1974-75, and has never flown it...just started the engine once and then put it aside for the following 45 years.

The Super Sport Trainer was the first - and last - COX model I have ever had. Back in the day I flew it in the open-air basketball field of the high school I went, to the astonishment of people living in the neighborhood, and to the surprise of our local basketball teams slipping on the asphalt where my engine left castor streaks (I still have the fragmented wing of it, but the engine flew away in a Lil Roughneck 3 or so years ago thanks to a short RX battery on board. Dammit...)

I cannot say how happy I am with this plane...only one elevator hinge broken that I will repair, and a brand new horse shoe back plate 049 reedy having only a few minutes on its clock, (all this for about 88 USD plus shipping!!!).

Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww !!! I will revert once the refurbishment project is completed.

rsv1cox wrote:There is a science to repairing boxes and tape isn't involved.

A warm iron (a Monokote iron in addition to a standard iron works well) a damp paper towel and Elmer's white glue and/or CA is about all you need.

balogh wrote:

rsv1cox wrote:There is a science to repairing boxes and tape isn't involved.

A warm iron (a Monokote iron in addition to a standard iron works well) a damp paper towel and Elmer's white glue and/or CA is about all you need.

Thanks, Bob, I have never heard about it, but will try!!!

rsv1cox wrote:

balogh wrote:

rsv1cox wrote:There is a science to repairing boxes and tape isn't involved.

A warm iron (a Monokote iron in addition to a standard iron works well) a damp paper towel and Elmer's white glue and/or CA is about all you need.

Thanks, Bob, I have never heard about it, but will try!!!

Iron out wrinkles with a warm/very warm iron, use the Monokote iron for hard to get at places using damp paper towels if necessary.  Apply white glue to underside of lifted areas, clamp and let dry.  Corners, apply white glue to each broken edge, remove excess with a paper towel. Clamp or push into a 90 degree corner and secure.  Use wax paper if required.  Other measurers as dictated by circumstances.

Most of the time it's best to leave previously applied tape (especially clear tape) in place.  Removing it invariably pulls up the surface decoration.

Mostly just common sense.  

1/2A Nut wrote:Nice to see you found one a sexy plane for sure!!!

Ken Cook wrote:                  Mine hangs over my workbench. I received mine as a b-day gift. My dad and I tried to fly it and it wouldn't get off the ground. It ran one time and it's been hanging ever since. We just had this conversation at our flying field in regards to certain Cox planes. My buddy Dan has a Rivets which is close to being flight ready, Rich has a Stuka and Skip with the P-40. We need to get these on video. I might just give it a whirl one more time.

Kim wrote:

MauricioB wrote:I always wonder: ... what will happen next? .... then I am seeing if eBay sells years of life. ... hahaha able to buy some reserve hahaha

Yeah Mauricio, I'd be in for buying a few of those myself!!!