Clapped out PT-19

New,

Thanks for the kind offer, kinda hoping for a real one though. I flew Kims QZ a while back and found it fun enough to re-create the experience.

Ron

Check out how many this guy has NIB. Auction is for one.

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=172069511586&globalID=EBAY-US

Cribbs74 wrote:New,

Thanks for the kind offer, kinda hoping for a real one though. I flew Kims QZ a while back and found it fun enough to re-create the experience.

Ron

Dude! Got you covered! I'll get a PM on the way as soon as the coffee starts working!

You would be a real hit with this one Ron.  Let me know if you want it, gratis.  I have your address around here somewhere.





I actually patched it up to flyable condition.


Bob

PM sent Bob.

Careful what you ask for Ron...before you know it you will have more plastic crap than you need

Nobody get me wrong, I enjoyed the frustration of the Cox RTF planes like most of us grew up on but as soon as I moved to balsa....well I MOVED on to balsa

As I see the cost of so much of this stuff I am glad I resist the temptation on some of it...mostly... Ha.... I still have more Cox .049s than I will ever need


OK Ok Fred is just bored and cluttering the CEF site with useless and mostly BS postings

Jason_WI wrote:Check out how many this guy has NIB. Auction is for one.

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=172069511586&globalID=EBAY-US

Wow! A dozen new in box PT-19s. Guy's sitting on a retirement goldmine...

The Facetious Mark

fredvon4 wrote:Careful what you ask for Ron...before you know it you will have more plastic crap than you need  

Nobody get me wrong, I enjoyed the frustration of the Cox RTF planes like most of us grew up on but as soon as I moved to balsa....well I MOVED on to balsa

As I see the cost of so much of this stuff I am glad I resist the temptation on some of it...mostly... Ha.... I still have more Cox .049s than I will ever need


OK Ok Fred is just bored and cluttering the CEF site with useless and mostly BS postings

Fred, I don't plan on going down the plastic road, balsa is my material of choice. I just wanted one so I could show my support.

OH I get it Ron.... I too...I have started a few times to gather the crud stuff needed for the coroplast PT but can't get enthused with that materiel so I found a few good photos to scratch out a passable Balsa PT 19

I know the fly a thon is intended for the Cox RTF but as I fly around with a grin I will be thinking of my fellow bashers desperately begging the bugger to just climb and not need new rubber bands...grin

Hey Ron, I saw a TV ad recently for ultrasonic light-activated glue that really looked amazing. Apparently there's many brands. It might be worth trying on Bob's broken wing..

Here's a vid that's pretty convincing..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE2B1ET-p1Q

roddie wrote:Hey Ron, I saw a TV ad recently for ultrasonic light-activated glue that really looked amazing. Apparently there's many brands. It might be worth trying on Bob's broken wing..

Here's a vid that's pretty convincing..

Over on Stunthanger not too long ago there were guys talking about that light activated glue. They seemed suitably impressed. Whether you use that glue or some other glue, I'd say it'd be a good idea to run a strip of reinforcing tape from one wingtip to the other across the bottom of the wing.

The Supported Mark

I think Bob already said it was airworthy. So I am assuming the wing is in one piece again. If it needs help I'll check that stuff out. Thanks guys.

Ron

Cribbs74 wrote:I think Bob already said it was airworthy. So I am assuming the wing is in one piece again. If it needs help I'll check that stuff out. Thanks guys.

Ron

It's in one piece Ron, but not nicely done, so I'm sending along my "good" PT-19 which is also a rescue but much more flyable.  You will have to re-string and rubber band it.  I'm including it so at least you will have something respectable to fly. Keep the clapped out 19 but send me back the other one in the same box, only box I had that would fit.







I will pack them carefully and get them in the mail this week.

A friend has one of those plastic "welders", I bet it would work on that broken wing.  Just remove my patches, weld the seams and weld in a spar of sorts.  I had thought of buying a new wing, they go for around $34 about twice what I paid for the whole plane.  

Good luck, I just hope that you don't wind up parallel to the ground with it as I did.    See my pictures in Kim's thread.

rsv1cox wrote: Keep the clapped out 19 but send me back the other one in the same box, only box I had that would fit.

Gee.. they're all so different in little ways.. Noticing on your blue/yellow model; the pilots look a lot better sitting in an open cockpit.. and the windscreens look nice too. Mine is a later model.. Pilot-heads with posts and fuse molded with small square holes to accept them. It would be funny to convert them to bobble-heads! My stab has a molded-centered horn. I don't see one on yours.. but I see a yellow piece in the tail of the fuse. Does that actuate the stab. somehow? It's hard to tell from your photo but is your engine-pod pitch-adjustable.. for beginner/expert? Mine has that and I think it's a nice feature. It is after all.. a trainer.  

Somebody mentioned shrink or Saran-wrapping the bottom of the wing.. to see how it would affect the flight. I'll bet it would be favorable. The PIA would be having to do it every flying session. I have some double-sided tape. I wonder if taping the perimeter-bottom of the wing would suffice for tacking low-heat covering to.. then shrinking with a hair-dryer? Make a slightly over-size wing template for cutting a one-piece heat-shrink bottom-skin.. lay the pre-taped wing down on top of it and roll left/right to adhere the film. Turn the wing upside-down and go around the entire perimeter; sealing the tape with the film, using a curved tool that will define an edge. Oh I'm on a roll now.. Heat taught and check for warps!

My tank is round and translucent-white. (I've had trouble with mine popping off.. including one on a replacement fuse..) I had an idea to bypass the tank.. and mount a tube for holding one of those long-shaped balloons I made. The stock landing gear design on mine is simple to reproduce with 1/16" music-wire. I wanted larger solid wheels for mine.. and went with Sig 1.375" plastic wheels.. and added nearly 1.0" to the strut(s) length. The stock gear's axles on mine are crimped at the ends.. not the best for "free-wheeling". My modified gear uses tiny precision brass washers on the axles.. and spring-collar retainers. I enjoy R.O.G.'s.. especially with a small model. It's just more realistic to me.

These two are quite different roddie.  I think the white one is an early model, blue/yellow model later.  

There are windshields on the later PT-19, clear plastic and not molded in like the first model.  Gas tanks as you mentioned are different too.  Both have adjustable engine pitches.  











The tail sections on both were broken, what you see is my fix.

I would think that the two Marks would have all the information regarding these.  

Ron is confident that he can repair that wing so I won't be sending the other PT-19 along.  Ron is sending me an Enya engine in trade, much appreciated but not necessary.  Another Enya!!!! yea.....

Bob

The white PT-19 comes from around 1981. That's when I figure mine was made from looking at the Cox product catalog that came with the model. The blue and yellow is a much earlier plane, but I don't know the years of manufacture.

The Uncertain Mark

rsv1cox wrote:You would be a real hit with this one Ron.  Let me know if you want it, gratis.  I have your address around here somewhere.





I actually patched it up to flyable condition.


Bob

Oh man, you've been holding out.... I'd love to find one of those. That was my first CL that I never got the chance to fly when I was a kid.