Where have all the Fox parts gone?

[Dave_Trible]

Can't argue with that but if they ever make a run of 35s I hope they make a few common sense improvements and machine them with greater precision.

Motorman

Then they wouldn't be.....a Fox.  There will be many available for years on Ebay.  That will be the parts source.  I've bought 6-7 in the last few years to add too my 'well someday' shelf and most are quite new.  Never paid more than $25.00 for any of them.  True most are the older style without muffler lugs-most anyplace I would ever fly them it doesn't matter.  Many old classics will be too nose heavy with any larger muffler anyway.  If nothing else the internal parts could be put into a later model you may have.  I may end up doing that with one of Bob Gieske's prize engines I have. It's the '63 'Gold' engine and I may put new eBay guts into it to give it a new life.  I've rebuilt several mature engines this way. 

Dave

[Jim Svitko]

Looking for a P&L for the Fox 35 engine. One would be good but 2 would be great!
Thanks

Check your private messages.

[john e. holliday]

I just picked up a Fox .36 Throttle valve for $10.00 today.   Like Dave I have a place to fly my planes if they don't have a muffler.   The one time I had an officer telling me my plane was to noisy a young person rode by with throttle wide open on a trail bike.   I looked at him and asked how about that.  The got in his car hasn't bothered me since except to see if every thing is alright.

[Doug Burright]

I almost polished off the gold finish from a 1963 Gold Edition Fox 35, that I purchased on a Combat Streak, at a local auction. I thought it was nicotine and castor build- up. Luckily, Ron Cribbs informed me that it was a short- run, 1963 edition from the Fox factory. This engine is a great performer! The Combat Streak was on it's "last legs", as a friend and I flew it until the glue joints were failing, on the first day that it was flown after the auction. That combination was the best $10.00 that I have ever spent on this hobby! 
Thank you Ron, for educating me about an important engine in my flying collection!

[Andre Ming]

Doug:

There was a time that Duke wanted us to attach our names to our work. Those of us that were capable* of running-in engines were each assigned a little rubber stamp and ink pad. I had mine up until about 20 or 30 years ago. (Used it to stamp my Kodachrome slides.) The stamped tag to which you refer should have my last name on it, too. The tag was placed upon the engine after it came off the test stand. I cant remember if it was a string w/tag, or was it just a tag with a hole punched to fit onto the prop stud? Been too many years. Anyway, I was supervising assembly at the time, so IF that tag is on an engine, then I was having to run engines to take up the slack for somebody that wasn't at their job post that day, OR, I was having to step in and make a hand in the run-in department in order get more engines out the door that day. Thanks God I didn't have to work the run-in department full time... it did enough damage to my hearing as it is.

* Believe it or not, being good at running-in engines wasn't a case where just "any idiot" could do it. The person had to have excellent mechanical aptitude, a thorough understanding of the function of the engines, and a good mechanical "feel" for them. A truly good one had to posses the aptitude to discern when there really was a production problem and bring it to my attention. (Items that my oft spot-checking of the final product would not typically catch.) A run-in man could make you or break you. I've had awful ones, and I've had (and worked alongside) excellent ones. Not just "anybody" could do it. One of the best was a fellow by the name of Chester Avis... and another that I can't remember his name. (I can still mentally see his face, though.) Those two sent out excellent engines. It was terrible when you had a dud run-in guy, and you didn't get to him fast enough before some engines were shipped that should have never seen the light of day. THOSE were the engines that eventually came back to my desk for repair.

I can't recall how long the "tag it or else" phase lasted at Fox.

Kenneth:

For some reason, the name "Sonny Perez" rings a very faint bell in the back of my memory files... but I can't truly confirm that I knew, or remember, such a fellow.

All fer now.

Andre