No mounting hole horseshoe backplate

I see that the Cox Fokker DR1 model's engine came with the protective steel tab that covered the engines' exhaust-port and had a mounting-flange that mirrored the crankcase gasket. I guess it was a later effort (following the mesh screen?) to prevent burns to the fingers whilst tuning the engine.

KariFS wrote:

Oldenginerod wrote:I reckon I have one of those in my stuff.  I'll have to dig it out.  I seem to recall that it may have the two lower holes rather than none.

A two-hole backplate would fit on something like this:



Don’t remember anymore which plane this belongs to but found it interesting that it only had two screws and just a couple of plastic tabs to hold the top.

Hi ya' Kari My late 1980's vintage Cox PT19 has a similar lower-screws only arrangement with the horseshoe backplate fitting into upper-slots.



sorry it's not a better image.. It's a rather ingenious multi-purpose firewall. The main landing gear-wire fits behind and is trapped by the back-plate; once it's installed. The whole assembly fit's up into the nose, held by rubber bands and is pitch-adjustable instantly for training-purposes.  

My Cox Cosmic Wind (also circa mid-late 1980's) uses no screws to hold it's .049 horseshoe-design back-plate/carb in place. Jason's no-mounting-hole back-plate would be a natural for it.




sadly.. my Cosmic-Wind has some wing-warp. I could try make a simple replacement-wing. It only has to fit the saddle at the fuse.. and have lead-out guides. The Cox OEM wing has the typical under-cambered airfoil.



The airplane currently has an ExModel Engines "Black Lynx" high-performance .049 reed-valve engine installed.