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Post  crankbndr Tue Feb 11, 2014 9:39 am

I made this engine out of three donor engines and a tank from CI. I took the ridge off a TD spinner with a drill and some wet or dry.
The cylinder is #1, two intake ports with SPI, all parts were new or like new. Came out pretty nice. Beer Cheers 

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Post  crankbndr Tue Feb 11, 2014 9:48 am

The donors

The crankcase

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The cylinder, piston and head, and prop drive plate

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Post  WingingIt74 Tue Feb 11, 2014 9:50 am

Turned out nice, I've been wanting to try one.
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Post  Cribbs74 Tue Feb 11, 2014 9:51 am

You did a great job! It turned out well.

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Post  JayeLK Tue Feb 11, 2014 9:59 am

Where did you get the big head needle? It put the finish on it. I've always liked the thin wall cylinder, stunt tank, and large needle look.

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Post  WingingIt74 Tue Feb 11, 2014 10:00 am

Cylinder may look good, but without wrench reliefs, they are a pain....
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Post  roddie Tue Feb 11, 2014 10:17 am

WingingIt74 wrote:Cylinder may look good, but without wrench reliefs, they are a pain....

I use a 2" long "sleeve" of 3/4" i.d. garden or heater hose to grip those cylinders with slip-joint pliers.

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Post  Cribbs74 Tue Feb 11, 2014 10:26 am

Or you could use the standard Cox wrench in the exhaust ports as designed.  Very Happy 

You have to make sure you have a good bite as it's somewhat easy to turn in a burr.

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Post  WingingIt74 Tue Feb 11, 2014 10:28 am

Cribbs74 wrote:Or you could use the standard Cox wrench in the exhaust ports as designed.  Very Happy 

You have to make sure you have a good bite as it's somewhat easy to turn in a burr.

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Post  G.O. Stang Tue Feb 11, 2014 10:36 am

I got the idea from here on this. I believe it was Mudhen who said it, but not positive. Get a plastic bag, ziplock etc., and fold it in half, and then half again. Them fold it in half once more but sliding the cylinder between the two halves. Now use the cox wrench as intended. The bag will take up some of the slop in the wrench as well as act like a cushion. Will leave little to no marks at all on a cylinder.
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Post  crankbndr Tue Feb 11, 2014 11:51 am

My tool of choice is this heat sink, wrap layers of tape around the cylinder then clamp on the sink. The cylinder needs to be soaked, I'm worried too much will put a twist the cylinder.
I also found tape on the wrench for the exhaust ports works well, no bur.
I used the heat sink to do 99 engines,

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Post  RknRusty Tue Feb 11, 2014 12:27 pm

If I ever resort to using the exhaust port tool on the wrench, I trap it horizontally in the vice, so it's clamping against the wrench's narrow sides. Then slide the engine into place and turn it. The vice should keep the wrench forks from spreading and causing a burr.
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Post  anm2 Tue Feb 11, 2014 5:27 pm

crankbndr wrote:I made this engine out of three donor engines and a tank from CI. I took the ridge off a TD spinner with a drill and some wet or dry.
The cylinder is #1, two intake ports with SPI, all parts were new or like new. Came out pretty nice. Beer Cheers 

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You said you got the tank from CI. What is CI?
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Post  anm2 Tue Feb 11, 2014 5:28 pm

Forgot to say the engine looks awesome. Great job.
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Post  crankbndr Tue Feb 11, 2014 5:31 pm

anm2 wrote:Forgot to say the engine looks awesome.  Great job.  



Sorry, CI  Cox International

http://coxengines.ca/8cc-aluminum-fuel-tank-for-cox-049-stunt-version-blue.html


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Post  crankbndr Tue Feb 11, 2014 5:34 pm

JayeLK wrote:Where did you get the big head needle?  It put the finish on it.  I've always liked the thin wall cylinder, stunt tank, and large needle look.

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Post  getback Tue Feb 11, 2014 6:10 pm

Affraid or WOW! yes 3 big head needle there I really LIKE those they seem to adjust and run much better than the small ones , on the older engines I believe my 049s from the 70s all had those  Babe Bee .049  shame u cant get them out right . nice looking engine there are you going to run it ??  Biplane 
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Post  dckrsn Tue Feb 11, 2014 6:10 pm

If I never laid eyes on a RR-1, yours  
would still be a pretty slick looking engine.
Great  job on the spinner, Doug, looks like
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cylinder too.
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Post  craig bernard Tue Feb 11, 2014 6:43 pm

The blue tank is that from the blue bullet engine it looks dark blue in the pictures?
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Post  Admin Tue Feb 11, 2014 6:52 pm

Looks great! From a distance or when up in the air, people would think you have a real one.

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It doesn't have to have ribs and fins to be real, this is a really early one from Mud's collection.

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Post  Theo Kleynhans Wed Feb 12, 2014 12:32 am

Really nice looking engine.

Great job!

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Post  craig bernard Thu Feb 13, 2014 5:39 pm

The one from muds collection approximately what year would that one bee first time setting eyes on one of those?
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Post  G.O. Stang Thu Feb 13, 2014 6:02 pm

craig bernard wrote:The one from muds collection approximately what year would that one bee first time setting eyes on one of those?
1956. It was the initial issue RR-1, then there was a design change to the natural aluminum case with fins and the tank with fins.
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Post  Mark Boesen Thu Feb 13, 2014 10:34 pm

The RR-1 didn't come out until half way into '56 and the initial version was produced for only a few months, making it the hardest to find Thimble-Drome engine made, many "experts" don't even acknowledge its existence.

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Post  Mark Boesen Thu Feb 13, 2014 10:43 pm

“Is it live, or is it Memorex?”

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