Can we get some help designing our Cox Engine Troubleshooting Chart?

Yes, fully understand the bots. I am versed in IT and I design and implement websites and their security protocols.

Since our email addresses are embedded into our various e-commerce sites and therefore visible to the spiders, posting an address here does not add much to the equation.

Culling addresses is actually quite simple, even if not visible on a site. Furthermore, the litte creepy-crawlers follow the posted and embedded links and, voila, they harvest

Cheers
Bernie

Cox International wrote:Yes, fully understand the bots. I am versed in IT and I design and implement websites and their security protocols.

Since our email addresses are embedded into our various e-commerce sites and therefore visible to the spiders, posting an address here does not add much to the equation.

Culling addresses is actually quite simple, even if not visible on a site. Furthermore, the litte creepy-crawlers follow the posted and embedded links and, voila, they harvest

Cheers
Bernie

Ok I just thought I would warn you just incase.
It is after all one of my duties as a moderator.

And it was sincerely appreciated. Most people don't know. Heck, some even email me with their 100 contacts in the CC section.

And now go critique our chart, will ya

Title should include "reed valve engines" and a picture

Below add the front venturi engines (picture)with note to clear crud from NV assy with 99% alcohol (drug store rubbing alcohol works) and blow out with light compressed air (computer cans of air work well)

The idea of soldering batteries in parrallel will work but YOU need to worry about liability... 99% of the time soldering will not overheat and blow up a single cell battery but I have seen button cells and NiCD bulge and vent gas

I recommend a picture of twin non rechargable "D" cells with tabs soldered in parallel and perhaps a note on how to prep for the solder with silver solder, sandpaper, flux etc... or link to the better method-- your fairly cheap duall D cell battery box

I know you have it in the engine "how to guide" but the trouble shooting guide should also remind about the unique fuel requirements 15%~35% Nitro and no less than 20% pure castor oil in methenol fuel blend...Perhaps a link to the glowplug boy Cox fuel or Sig Castor oil pint quart (very inexpensive) or note that drug store castor oil is usually good enough for these dinky engines and a suggestion that all LHS 15% or higher can have 3 to 5 oz of pure castor added per quart to make a good blend...some blends with synth oil will not hurt the motor but they do need the castor to seal compression and cool the top end properly. Alsothe con rod will die a fast death in synth only oil blends as it will not creep into the ball joint like castor will

The big three that I usually diagnose for cox 049...bad fuel... crud in NV... crud or damaged reed... and if owner took apart I am usualy sure the venturi seal is damaged or missing

Pictures really are woprth a 1000 words... exploded view and close up of venturi "o" ring, "reed" and retainer. Dirty and clean Needle valve etc

Thanks Fred.

I will print, peruse and add from your suggestions.

The chart was intended for rotary valve engines as well and that is why I qualified some troubles and problems.

Not worried about the battery liability as the one from a running engine is way bigger. That aside I perefer selling our battery boxes to modellers soldering -

Good idea re referring back to our fuel guide (which contains links to vendors).

Bernie

I know from your TS guide that you intended clean ans simple

Please consider very detailed and comprehensive

I hate to think of how many 049s I killed untill I learned all the quirks and nuances of the dinky power plant

I alwyas thought Cox stuff was cool but the documentation was dreadfully inadequate...well on the other hand they sold me and my dad a lot of product so perhaps there was a method to thier madness....grin

Thanks Admin and Fred.

The idea is "simple" but I am open to suggestions; hence my enlisting 3rd party help on this board.

The thing to consider is that our average customer is 65 years old. Many do not have a PC, let alone an internet connection. Those that do often struggle with the technology. Trust me on this one. My staff and I get the calls all day long and we end up mailing paper catalogues and instructions via snail-mail.

We are but a 3-person operation with limited resources and need to limit the resources we devote to "freebies". Hardly a day goes by where we don't help someone with a product they bought from a competitor, often at lower pricing. The pitfalls of being the only seller of Cox items with a toll-free tel. # lol.

Basic fuel guide, operating guide and troubleshooting guide for the masses is what we are striving to offer. After all, it's free and downloadable - way more than was available even 2 - 3 years ago.

Please keep the recommendations coming or, hey, submit a full and comprehensive guide and we'll honour the author with his/her name

Bernie
www.coxinternational.ca

I think it's perfect.

that...is really cool. we have to post that into the guest area, so people can get immediate help with ay cox related problem...

GermanBeez wrote:that...is really cool. we have to post that into the guest area, so people can get immediate help with ay cox related problem...

I second that because then we can knock
Out many of the newbie questions
In one go.

Admin,

I think it's awesome!!!

We run MS Office 2010 on all machines so, yes, please send an MS Word copy to my biz email and I'll retrieve if from home, where I am on weekends.

I will sugegst some changes/additions, incl. the correct non-toll free phone # and email it back to you.

We can host it full colour but we only physically print B & W at the office as our catalogue is 90 pages long and colour would be cost prohibitive.

The idea, as with the catalogue and other guides, is to make them available web-based only, except for customers that don't have internet access. For those we print duplex and send snail-mail.. shudder

I would also like you to entertain the possibility of creating for us, for remuneration (preferably as merchandise credit) operating and fuel guides. We have something basic here:

http://coxengines.ca/pages.php?pageid=5

and here

http://coxengines.ca/pages.php?pageid=6

Anyhow, one step at a time and thanks in advance for the Word version of the TS guide.

Bernie
www.cointernational.ca

Our phone #'s are published on every page in red at the top:

http://coxengines.ca/

but I did some digging and found where you got the old #. Thanks for pointing this out and I will make the change on our server.

A foldable version may exceed one double-sided page, no? Unless one went to smaller type. I think regular 2-page view is best for the web but if you also have a foldable version that is great for when we physically mail them out.

We have been mulling over whether to include comprehensive operating, fuel and TS guides with all our engines or not. This is part of possibilities we are looking at as we are overhauling our eBay and other site this month. We had a pro photograper shoot all our products are we are in the process of selecting and cropping them for the revamp.

If you need wrench, engine, glow clip, battery box (preferred to the single-battery version) pics for the guide let me know and I'll send 1,200 x 1,200 x 96 pics.

Bernie
www.coxinternational.ca

That's a nice little booklet,,good work on that. Pretty much covers it for the top layer troubleshooting I think.

I can make a bulleted list of everything I know(that I can still remember) about Cox reedies; operating, rebuilding, troubleshooting, etc.
You can cherry pick it, maybe I know something useful everyone else doesn't. I'll type it up over the next couple of days.
Hope that helps,
Rusty

Thanks Rusty.

Why don't you send a copy to Admin and Jacob can see if he can cull any of your thoughts and integrate them into the guide he has created for us.

Thanks again.

Bernie
www.coxinternational.ca

Okay Bernie, I will.

Jacob --

One small correction. To use the Castor Oil Calculator, you need to have Microsoft Excel 2003 or later.

andrew