You never know what you might find!

batjac wrote:Well, my step-son graduated High School earlier this year, and he’s moving in with us this weekend to start Community College next semester.  So, I had to clean out the closet of the spare room for his stuff.  I was moving the totes with the Christmas stuff, and opened up one with old modelling stuff, mostly GMP Cricket parts.  But, in a baggie in the bottom of the tote I found this:

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SCORE!!!  Forgotten Treasures!  A throttled Babe Bee, a Silver Bee, two new 3-bladed props, two new and one used Cox grey competition 6x3 props, a spinner, a used .049 muffler and .049 wrench.  Plus, the special bonus items!  A new Kavan tank extender and a new .15 muffler.  The Kavan tank extender was purchased at Midfield Hobbies, so I got it in Midfield, CT sometime in the mid to late 80’s.  The .15 muffler I would have bought in the early 90’s.  I'm not sure why, as I didn't have any Cox .15 engines at the time.  Must have been an item of opportunity.  I’m not sure when I got the engines, but they would have to be mid 80’s or earlier.  Until I got on the CEF a little over a year ago, I hadn’t flown any Cox engines since the early 90’s, so these’ve been in their sandwich baggie for at least 20 years.  The engines turn over with no stickiness, so I must have oiled them properly before throwing them in the baggie.

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