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Ok Let's have a show and tell about which were the best .049 model engines manufactered 1955 to1965???
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Re: Ok Let's have a show and tell about which were the best .049 model engines manufactered 1955 to1965???
I don't think anything outdid a TD until the Stels and Norvels came out around 1990. Maybe some home made ones. The Holland Hornet was maybe best until the TD came out around 1960?
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Re: Ok Let's have a show and tell about which were the best .049 model engines manufactered 1955 to1965???
The FOX .049 FAI is also a contender for the strongest engine, came out around 1965 I think?
I don't have any of those myself though...
I don't have any of those myself though...
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Re: Ok Let's have a show and tell about which were the best .049 model engines manufactered 1955 to1965???
I may be a wee bit prejudiced but for me the best .049 glow engine ever produced was the Enya .049 made in both throttled and unthrottled configurations. Introduced in the very early 1960's, it's fit and finish far exceeds it's contemporaries of the day especially when taking into account it's complexity. Curious, Enya did not market it extensively saving that for it's first cousins the .06 and .08.
Sum Ting Wong with one of the backplates on these NIB examples.
Sum Ting Wong with one of the backplates on these NIB examples.
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Re: Ok Let's have a show and tell about which were the best .049 model engines manufactered 1955 to1965???
This is the very engine that mesmerized me and sent me into the bunch of COX enthusiasts forever, the postage stamp backplate reedie I got from a Western European friend who crashed his Stuka in 1974 and cannibalized the plane, leaving this cutie with me. (The Golberg mount was added decades later courtesy ebay)
Apart from it of course the brute line of TeeDee-s with the liliputian 010 and the equally unrivaled 020, the 049-s and 09-s will never be surpassed in my hall of famous hero engines..
Apart from it of course the brute line of TeeDee-s with the liliputian 010 and the equally unrivaled 020, the 049-s and 09-s will never be surpassed in my hall of famous hero engines..
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Re: Ok Let's have a show and tell about which were the best .049 model engines manufactered 1955 to1965???
Ian, you claim the last engine as the worst, so does that mean that you have rated them top to bottom best to worst?
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Re: Ok Let's have a show and tell about which were the best .049 model engines manufactered 1955 to1965???
rsv1cox wrote:
Sum Ting Wong with one of the backplates on these NIB examples.
Yes Bob, spotted that. The right hand engine has the backplate upside down. That's a problem as there appears to be a cut-out to allow the piston to reach BDC. (As well as the fact thay you can't get to the top mounting screw that way.)
Rod.
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Re: Ok Let's have a show and tell about which were the best .049 model engines manufactered 1955 to1965???
I'm gonna go with
Fred Baldwin's favorite engine: Holland Hornet .049 II
Fred Baldwin's favorite engine: Holland Hornet .049 II
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Re: Ok Let's have a show and tell about which were the best .049 model engines manufactered 1955 to1965???
Oldenginerod wrote:Ian, you claim the last engine as the worst, so does that mean that you have rated them top to bottom best to worst?
No - no particular order but you can’t have a best without pointing out the worst!
I have a few of the Enya 049s and they are really reliable little runners.
My favourites are always going to be the diesels. I will post more later today.
It is how an engine fares in a model that counts - looks aren’t everything. Steady, reliable, easy to start .............not forgetting how it sounds and smells. That diesel bark .......... !
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Re: Ok Let's have a show and tell about which were the best .049 model engines manufactered 1955 to1965???
I'm well familiar with diesel. First engine I ever operated was (my brother's) original Mills P75. Not quite .049 but pretty close. As a 12 year old I never had too much trouble making that thing run. It was a friendly engine which showed little malice.ian1954 wrote:Oldenginerod wrote:Ian, you claim the last engine as the worst, so does that mean that you have rated them top to bottom best to worst?
No - no particular order but you can’t have a best without pointing out the worst!
I have a few of the Enya 049s and they are really reliable little runners.
My favourites are always going to be the diesels. I will post more later today.
It is how an engine fares in a model that counts - looks aren’t everything. Steady, reliable, easy to start .............not forgetting how it sounds and smells. That diesel bark .......... !
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Re: Ok Let's have a show and tell about which were the best .049 model engines manufactered 1955 to1965???
Ian is kickin' arse an' taking names today.
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