Fun with engines!

[James Lee]

I finally admitted that I collect Foxes when my count of 35 Stunt motors went past four dozen....  ranging from a 1948 Fox that was the first Fox 35 Stunt sold in Topeka.  Bought it from the original owner in complete and good running condition.....  up to a 50th Ann Black motor.   Also have John Lowry's 'show and tell' motor that he mocked up to show what the 50th Ann Black motor would look like....   
Definately not in the league of people like Bill Mohrbacher, though!!!
Later
Jim

[Bill Little]

Here's one of mine:

[James Lee]

And this looks like a brother to Bill's...
Found this at the WC's in 2002    Talka 7 from the Ukraine(probably!)
Jim

[Randy Powell]

>>The good news as was pointed out is there is no known cure for my lust for engines afflictions.<<

I think this is why electrics will never truly take over. Too many folks that just like little engines. I'm no different. I have to slap my own hand when I go to buy an engine that I can't justify. They way I look at it, if I don't buy an engine I don't really need, I can, instead, spend the money on more balsa or control systems or whatever. But it's hard.

[Marvin Denny]

    Randy, can't you just imagine it???  Twenty or thirty years from now  some collector says  "Look what I just landed off the Bay""  "a real Antique BRUSH  type motor. It's really rare".  Then he goes on to say or ask if any of the collectors out there may have a set of brushes. HEE HEE HEE--  then some dummy might reply--- I found a set down in the junk barrel.---  HAR HAR HAR.

  Bigiron

[Clancy Arnold]

Marvin
I didn't know you had Electric parts in your Junk Barrel!!

Do you have a set of brushes for a Sears 3/8 inch drill?

Clancy

[Marvin Denny]

  I was playing with Small electrics in the late 70s.  Still got some of the experimental stuff.  As for the Sears 3/8 inch drill,  I wouldn't be a bit supprised to find some brushes that might fit.  My radiator cooling fan on my 92 dodge van wore the brushes out  on it and I found a set that fit the slots and managed to solder the  pigtail leads to the original wiring and it was still working  50K miles later when I sold the vehicle.

  Bigiron

  PS  Oh by-the-way---  The dealer said I would have to replace the entire motor PLUS the fan shroud (it was a dealer-only item) as the motor was "A sealed unit" and non-reparable.  Saved myself around $300+  bucks
  I guess I didn't repaie it, I just "Fixed" it.

  B

[billbyles]

Hey bill, remember the huge analog tach that ed southwick would use sometimes ?
What a classic !!

Hi Paul,

Ed used a Royal analog tachometer back in the late eighties/early nineties.  He finally went to a digital Hobbico tach in about 1996 or so.

Bill Byles