History of the Tower 40

[Paul Taylor]

Anyone know how the Tower 40 came to be?

I know a few people ran them and liked them over the LA 40.

Thanks

[Brad LaPointe]

I run one on a profile Oriental and it works very well . Wet two stoke ,4 pitch prop , very consistent and repeatable runs . Mines history …bought at a swap meet , changed to a LA .25 intake , OS NVA  . As stated runs great .

Brad

[Motorman]

As I heard it, there was a ex employee engineer of OS Max that was helping make knock off engines further down the Pacific rim and one 40 was branded for Tower Hobbies.

MM

[frank williams]

I think it is very much a copy of the Os 40 FP ..... except I think it had a chromed sleve instead of the ABN of the OS

[Paul Walker]

Seems like a lot of copying goes on it "that" neck of the woods...

[Brent Williams]

https://stunthanger.com/smf/engine-set-up-tips/tower-hobbies-engines/

[Geoff Goodworth]

As somebody said, there was a lot of copying went on — and still does.

The manufacturer was a Taiwanese company whose main line in manufacture was sewing machines.

About the time that it became clear that Tower was going to stop selling them, I tracked down the company and was told that they would alter the marking on the side of the crankcase to anything that would fit for an order of 1,000 units.

I asked several people both here in Australia and in the US but the minimum order of 1,000 units was the killer. I was pondering whether a 46 — achieved like the LA — might be a possibility.

I put it down as an interesting research project but that was all.

I never found out whether the company responded to an enquiry from Tower or whether they had decided that they might make it anyway.

[Paul Taylor]

Good info.
Too bad they didn’t keep making them. Not many choices for ICe people that still use them.

When you do find them they are like gold.

[Russell Graves]

There's one that was just listed today on RCGroups. It's a NIB Tower 40 for $65 plus $10 shipping. I was thinking of buying it but I've got enough motors.

https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?4573689-Brand-New-Tower-40-40-ABC-NIB

FYI, if you join RCGroups to buy it, you need 11 or more posts in the forums to enable Direct Messaging, which is pretty much the only way to buy stuff on RCGroups. You could post a reply with your email, but it's too easy for the OP to miss the message and not reply and sell it to someone else using DM.