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Building Tips and technical articles. => 1/2 A building. => Topic started by: Bill Heher on March 23, 2015, 01:28:02 PM

Title: Round and round, 1/2A on the ground....
Post by: Bill Heher on March 23, 2015, 01:28:02 PM

Won this old school, pre-safety hoop, crash damaged Shrike cheap on da'bay- found some ARF wheel pants at the Hobby Shop that will take the place of the busted up original wheel fairings. I like it!

Title: Re: Round and round, 1/2A on the ground....
Post by: Chancey Chorney on March 23, 2015, 03:32:23 PM

Nice.  After getting back in this year, I was trying to find a link to building something like this to try for fun, as they look like a hoot.  Nice score.

Title: Re: Round and round, 1/2A on the ground....
Post by: Phillip Kenney on March 23, 2015, 03:36:08 PM

Had one of the original metal pan prop rods. Used to take it out on a frozen lake and let it run free. Would run a few hundred feet, hit a bump and spin around on the ice an speed of in another direction. Being young I wasn't smart enough to realize the plastic wasn't real fond of the cold and the mounting screws for the engine  broke off.

Title: Re: Round and round, 1/2A on the ground....
Post by: john e. holliday on March 24, 2015, 01:58:36 PM

I still have my Cox Prop rod.   We ran it a few times I a Church parking lot.   Lots of fun until the tether ring hangs up, then it gets scary.

Title: Re: Round and round, 1/2A on the ground....
Post by: RogerRamjet on July 12, 2016, 01:04:40 PM

I know this is an old thread, but I have a COX Shrike as well that I restored a few years ago.
Here are some before and after pics along with a video.
Also, you can get new reproduction bodies on E-Bay.

Shawn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsGcXdsehIk