Pfeffer Addiction!!!!! Well, addiction in general!

REMEMBER THIS IS TONGUE IN CHEEK! MEANT TO BE HUMEROUS IN A BRITISH WAY!


 I blame this site   - I do     - members on this site generate and fuel addiction. I am going to name names and cite examples!

How shall I start?

Here I am a modest collector   - limiting myself to small (under 1 cc diesels) unless they are British made. ( Oh and unless they are Cox engines) (or I like the look of them) (or they are cheap)( or ....................)

However, over the years I had collected a few Cox engines (just a few thousand!). Entering this site soon made me realise that there were Cox engines that I didn't have. The wealth of information, the historians all fueled a desire for me to examine my collection.

How frustrating! I quickly realised that it is IMPOSSIBLE to collect them all! Each engine has many potential variations - the Black Widow is a prime example - some of them aren't even black.

A recent posting about Strato Bugs also reminded me that there is a potential for 12 variants! I only have four - deep sadness, deep seated unrequited longing, occasional twitching and temperature fluctuations - it goes on and on.        

Then we have members who supply further temptation for me to stray. This series of topics is a prime example. Comments my Ron , Ken and Doug have led me down the Fox path - although Fox hunting has been banned in England, I have found myself participating. I have now just picked up a Fox .46 - Is it any good? I don't care! I wanted one and got it cheaper than cheap. Then again comments by Ken lead me down all sorts of untrodden engine paths!

Then we have Jason. I post a picture of a Pfeffer 0.6 diesel. Difficult to find but a very distinct and attractive sqare headed diesel. He then PMs me (very nicely (and thank you)) and points me to a site where a chap is selling his collection.

The only engine left is a Pfeffer 0.6. Already got one methinks - then I see it has a different coloured head and the exhausts are different. WANT, WANT, WANT !!!!!!!!! It is delivered and I compare the two - they are different. This is followed by research    and I find this



I see that there are Mk 1 to IV, with a BB version Mk IV - that is five engines if I want them all. I have two at this stage. I quickly realise that I have a Mk III and a Mk IV but, although it is not clear from the above - there are different colour heads. Aaaargh!!!!  

It then gets worse - I find a Mk IV BB version - I am on a roll methinks. I am then offered another which I accept - when it arrives it doesn't look like any one of the engines that have been catalogued.  



This one has a recess in the crankcase front housing!  So how many of them are there? I wouldn't be in this quandry if Jason hadn't tempted me to a second purchase!  

Now I have four but of how many?



Then we have Ron (again) - following another posting he asks me if I have  Holland Hornet. I have three but I CAN'T FIND THEM. Now I can't   wondering where these I stored these. Mark then rubs it in by posting his picture of one!  

This is not to mention the constant temptation to build profile slabby things from Ron (yet again!, Doug, Rusty ( to mention but a few) - even though I don't like profile slabby things.

That combined with Doug present exampled of superbly finished and decorated planes making me want to spend more time finishing a model rather than taking it and flying it!

Then there is Roddie. Every time he comes up with an idea I am immediately tempted to spend time coming up with a quicker way of doing it and, perhaps, ending up with something I didn't need until I knew I wanted one.

Mind you, thinking of Roddie - there was I again tempted by this thin sheety thingies some call planes in the guise of a speed contest for fast flying scale look alikes. You all have no chance methinks  

It will only take literally minutes (well not more than two hours  ) to build a competition winner. I read the rules - got a drawing scaled it about a bit and then cut out a template ready to transfer to balsa. Foam templating is nice and quick.



Then Roddie modifies the rules to say only a single engine! Grrr! It wouldn't be a Mosquito with one engine. A good job it wasn't the Lancaster I was considering!

That's all for now.

Has anyone one else been affected, influenced or led astray by this site?