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Building Tips and technical articles. => 1/2 A building. => Topic started by: Dave Nyce on October 19, 2017, 02:35:44 PM
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I have an .010 Tee Dee engine for a small plane on which the kids at the orphanage are working, to try something new. But the engine has a broken piston rod. Does anyone have a piston rod for a .010 Tee Dee?
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The TeeDee .010 is a very expensive collectible engine. Ebay prices currently range from $62 to $250. There are (surprisingly) glow plugs for only $13.
Sorry no parts that I see. This is an ambitious children's project.
TeeDee .020's and .049's are a better bet. There is a whole world of .049 parts out there.
The piston & rod are a factory-assembled unit. I have never seen them taken apart, much less reassembled.
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Have you tried Cox International?
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Dave Nyce
As noted the Cox TeeDee .010 is a pricey piece of engine these days and repair parts are hard to find and quite pricey when you do
Bernie at Cox International and Matt at ExModelengines...the two primary sources for a LOT of COX parts may occasionally come across the TeeDee .010 parts but do NOT have them in stock
Go to Cox Engines Forums, CEF and introduce your self, what you do with the kids, and see if some kind benefactor can/will help out
https://www.coxengineforum.com/
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Coincidentally, I got a TeeDee .010 in a batch of stuff & the rod on that one was broken, too. Maybe the weak link in the design.
When you scale a product up or down, different limitations come to the front.
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The top of the rod is broken off, and missing.
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Dave
Sort of curious on the using a TeeDee .010 for the orphanage kids to play with
But hey who can doubt it is one of the very coolest dinky engines ever mass produced
I looked you up and see you have been doing this work with the kids for quite some time
I do not personally play in the Cox .010 arena...BUT many of my CEF friends do
More to the point...many have a largish collection of the dinky engines
Ask for help at CEF and I bet some one will help out
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Look for the later production run .010 engines with the black carb body. They are not as "collectible" as the original red versions. Some say that they are not as good but I haven't ever played with mine just yet.
Good luck and have fun,
Dan McEntee
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I'll check my stash. I have 5 nib and one run TD .010. Dad collected them and he bought out the LHS supply of props, plugs, tanks and other misc. parts for these engines. There may be some connecting rods in there. I haven't looked through the bag of parts in over 30 years. God knows what is in there.
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I bought a TD .010 when I was in high school (or before). I am amazed now at how such a tiny engine could have been so friendly - easy to start and even in its run. Being out of the mainstream, I put it on an old Strombecker F-84, whose wings I'd polyhedralled, and flew it as a crude, tiny free flight model. It actually flew decently. It was never cleaned out right after its last flight, and after 40 years in my old family garage, the red plastic had deteriorated to the point that the tank outlet was melted away. I remember it's performance fondly - as I do my .020 and Cub .024. 'wonder why I used such small engines at that time, but they were fun. Anyway, I really liked the .010 and hope you find a rod - or complete engine replacement.
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There were plenty of .020's and .049's in my old neighborhood in Detroit, but not a single .010. Nobody could see the point in paying more for a smaller engine. The move was toward the Olympic & TeeDee .15's and the McCoy 35, then finally the real engine, ST C35.
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Even if you find a rod for your .010, you will still need the rod reset tool to install the thing.
Keith
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The best bet is to find a matched piston and cylinder set. Replacing the rod in an existing piston is not something even the factory repair guys would try. I haven't a clue how you would "un-swage" the piston socket!
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The best bet is to find a matched piston and cylinder set. Replacing the rod in an existing piston is not something even the factory repair guys would try. I haven't a clue how you would "un-swage" the piston socket!
Agreed, and the chances of finding a loose conrod are extremely low. I would suggest that it be replaced with a Pee Wee .020, about the same power although not the same sense of wonder.
Brett
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Let’s look at what the requirements are. Why a .010? Truly a great engine, but not ideal for trainers. A standard product engine has about the same power, but is infinitely more robust and forgiving of abuse.
Give us some more data on the original program situation, and we can give a lot more help, including some hardware, like as not.
If you need reduced power for limited space flying, there are several ways to achieve that. Cox left hand 6x2 prop, a disk blanking out part of the prop area, muffler, venturi restriction, the list goes on!
Give us more information on your goals, as a conrod replacement ain’t a’gonna happen.
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Checked my stash, I do not have what you are looking for.