Cox 020 PeeWee rebuild questions

Hi balogh,

You are probably correct about the distraction of the election here!

Well, I finished assembling the motor. I tried the leak test and no joy here; it did not pass. I changed out the reed to mylar and tried again. Same result.
So, I re-read the earlier notes on leak checks and realized i did not remember that chasing a leak will be more involved! Too tired to continue today. Based on an earlier picture in this thread, I tried to put the cotton fibers on all the backplate screw head assemble it all at the same time. It was a bit frustrating. I left the cotton fibers out when I changed out the reed and I plan to go back in tomorrow and remove one screw at a time, apply the castor oil soaked cotton fibers to the screw heads and re-install the screw. It was too much to manage all of them at once. It might be easier on an 049 but the 020 is tiny! For all I know it could turn out that the copper reed is still good after I do all the troubleshooting/leak checking!

Cheers,
Dave