Cox Electric

Good for you cstat............nothing wrong with a second childhood. Buy that stuff, look at it, enjoy it.

My mother did the same when I joined the Navy, what she didn't toss out my older brother assumed. Fine with me, I left with the prettiest girl in town.

Sosam! a brushless motor and Lipo!  you are evil! ... in a great way...  it probably would work, and as much as I hate to say it.. IF this one is TRULY sealed, NIB - I will leave it that way.

Have you seen the WillieNillys 250 series?   they are repopping some vintage kits, smaller, and absolutely with electric options.   https://willynillies.com/buy-here/ols/products/jr-skylark-250-beta-kit-pre-order-now-limited-quantities-available-shipping-3rd-week-of-december

I have been thinking about their electric/cox look-a-like mounts
Looks like a Cox motor at a distance, but with cool internals
https://willynillies.com/buy-here/ols/products/cox-td-010-power-pack

Sadly. I am addicted to castor and the super sexy 2 smoke smell....  


Rsv1Cox!   Years ago, I got some excitement to find a Pink Hotwheels "Peeping Bomb" - like?  the one I had when....
ebay, found one.   price was up to $7.   Looked closer, it was from North East Texas, where I grew up.   Looked CLOSER!   My mom was selling it.   .  She got the eBay bug early on, and knew all the junk in our closets was worth bucks.   Sold off my hot wheels, my comic book collection, even my lincoln logs.

i am somewhat 'collecting' the things that had important memories, or make me feel good to play with.   Most recent acquisition was a Victor Stanzel Lil'Rascal living room plane, with all sorts of great memories attached.   Kid thought it was so funny, he posted video of me flying it.   then I carefully removed batteries, wiped it down, and into a cabinet of nerd trophies...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oVYDMt88e0o

Glad to hear you ran off with the prettiest girl in town.  That's the way to do it.

cstatman wrote:Sosam! a brushless motor and Lipo!  you are evil! ... in a great way...  it probably would work, and as much as I hate to say it.. IF this one is TRULY sealed, NIB - I will leave it that way.

Have you seen the WillieNillys 250 series?   they are repopping some vintage kits, smaller, and absolutely with electric options.   https://willynillies.com/buy-here/ols/products/jr-skylark-250-beta-kit-pre-order-now-limited-quantities-available-shipping-3rd-week-of-december

I have been thinking about their electric/cox look-a-like mounts
Looks like a Cox motor at a distance, but with cool internals
https://willynillies.com/buy-here/ols/products/cox-td-010-power-pack

Sadly. I am addicted to castor and the super sexy 2 smoke smell....  


Rsv1Cox!   Years ago, I got some excitement to find a Pink Hotwheels "Peeping Bomb" - like?  the one I had when....
ebay, found one.   price was up to $7.   Looked closer, it was from North East Texas, where I grew up.   Looked CLOSER!   My mom was selling it.   .  She got the eBay bug early on, and knew all the junk in our closets was worth bucks.   Sold off my hot wheels, my comic book collection, even my lincoln logs.

i am somewhat 'collecting' the things that had important memories, or make me feel good to play with.   Most recent acquisition was a Victor Stanzel Lil'Rascal living room plane, with all sorts of great memories attached.   Kid thought it was so funny, he posted video of me flying it.   then I carefully removed batteries, wiped it down, and into a cabinet of nerd trophies...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oVYDMt88e0o

Glad to hear you ran off with the prettiest girl in town.  That's the way to do it.

My "Fireball" is not new in the box.
It has a little damage but not any real bad damage.
Lots of scuff marks from the asphalt when it was trying to takeoff.
Never got it up to fly to really crash and break it up.
It's in the box but the box is pretty beat up.

One of many planes that I have that never really flew and didn't crack up.
Just got frustrated that it couldn't fly and stored it away in the crawlspace of my parent's house ( which I inherited when they both passed away 25 years ago.)

Have a few Kyosho electric planes in the crawlspace too (U/C and R/C) that never really flew.
Cheap ARF's back then when ARFs were coming out.
Heavy Nicads, brushed motors and not enough power. Maybe look at all of that stuff to see "if" updating to new stuff like a brushless motors and lipo batteries?

Back then when electric was coming out, manufactures just put an electric motor in a plane and told you in the instructions it needed batteries and go and fly it.
Did the manufactures really test the plane before selling it to the mass market? Probably not, and I have some planes in my crawlspace to prove it?

yank em out, update them motors and batteries. You have the right idea!

could you imagine at a weekend fun-fly? IF you had one working? all the guys who had one "back when" would be looking at you as if you were a wizard with mad skills. it would be "how the heck did he DO that?" and "mine never ever flew"

. do it!!!! do it NOW!

cstatman wrote:yank em out, update them motors and batteries.    You have the right idea!

could you imagine at a weekend fun-fly?   IF you had one working?  all the guys who had one "back when" would be looking at you as if you were a wizard with mad skills.    it would be "how the heck did he DO that?" and "mine never ever flew"

.   do it!!!!   do it NOW!  

Like the Kyosho Jet Stream GP-10 I did over the last winter and took it to the boating pond this year.



And the Kyosho Riviera sailboat which I had to fix the sails on.


Like cstatman said about the guys remembering seeing those boats years ago.
All of the boats that were at the pond were electric.

I had one of the Electro chargers in 1976. It did fly and I enjoyed it. I think it was like a Piper Comanche. It was white/green/black.I remember the arming was done via the bellcrank. The biggest problem was the short fly time. It wasn't maneuverable, it was just fun.

Ken Cook wrote:   It wasn't maneuverable, it was just fun.

Yabby

the electro charger arrived..... its still in box, i am not williing to pull from box - split sides, swap batteries

Its on a shelf of nerd-trophies

I forgot how lightweight and flimsy the plastic is..

You have self-control.

I have a few of those adhesive sealed boxed models, every one had been ripped open by the previous owner. I have a couple of blister packed Cox Star War models unopened but that's it. Nothing that I would want to open anyway. But, they are nice to look at and are a Cox product.

less self control, more "i know it aint ever gonna fly"

I can look at the box, and it reminds me of my mom. She did NOT want me messing around with dangerous gas engines

ha!