A Golden Bee named "Old War Horse"

WingingIt74 Wed Jul 31, 2013 10:19 pm

This Golden Bee is named "Old War Horse", it's old, shows it's scars... but it still runs. I bought it last week, apart in a grab bag of parts. I gave it a #2 cylinder, piston, brass reed, e-clip, fuel pick-up, prop, glow plug and a lot of TLC. So far I've run 2 tanks of fuel through it and it's starting to settle down in it's groove. I will be using this engine on my Control Line trainer to not only teach myself, but my boys as well. Should be a nice little engine for the job. I also have it's brother, but I don't have another metal stunt backplate....

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WingingIt74 Wed Jul 31, 2013 10:21 pm

"Old War Horse" has some pretty good scrapes, but It's brother would give Kim's "War Dog" a run for it's money Smile

**Cribbs74** Thu Aug 01, 2013 12:08 am

Glad it's running good Travis! I have never been fond of the snap starters, have you ever tached an engine with one that has one and one with a no drag? I always assumed they rob power, but I have no concrete evidence.

Hope you can get started in CL and you and your boys enjoy it.

Ron

batjac Thu Aug 01, 2013 1:21 am

Ron, the Babe Bee that I tach'ed last week has the snap starter on it. I was getting 18.5K on it with ~30% nitro. I used to worry about the backplate rubbing the starter spring, but I don't think I'll worry about it now.

The Springy Mark

WingingIt74 Thu Aug 01, 2013 10:37 am

Cribbs74 wrote:Glad it's running good Travis! I have never been fond of the snap starters, have you ever tached an engine with one that has one and one with a no drag? I always assumed they rob power, but I have no concrete evidence.

Hope you can get started in CL and you and your boys enjoy it.

Ron

Well it had scars of having a snap starter and in the parts there was the starter plate, so I put one back on... made it look a little better Smile

Now to get it's brother running... although I think I'm going to have to put a wanted add up for the parts I don't have.

gcb Fri Aug 02, 2013 8:14 pm

Two of my Golden Bees have spring starters but they are the older type that you must engage manually, not the newer type with the starter plate. Perhaps both type were used but I believe the newer type were used on product engines like the Sure Start.

George

WingingIt74 Fri Aug 02, 2013 9:50 pm

The starter doesn't matter to me, I'm fly'n this GB!

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