Home made fuel nipple for COX Tee Dee RC carb

A regretfully weak point of the COX Tee Dee RC carburetor is its black plastic fuel nipple. It breaks easily if you forget to be cautious when fiddling with the fuel line:



If you are lucky, you will find a replacement nipple in the webshop of either  Bernie or Matt, but currently they are out of stock.

I decided to make my own, more lasting, metal fuel nipple, from a landing gear wheel stop:



and a pressure nipple used on exhaust mufflers:



All I had to do was increase the bore on the wheel stop from 3mm to 4.8mm, and now it slips easily on the COX Tee Dee RC carb spray bar. (This is the same size for the 05 and 09 size TeeDee-s !!). Then, drill out the M3 lock screw thread and tap it to M4 so that the nipple screws into the wheel end.

The result is:




I need to put a M4 counter nut on the pressure nipple stem and some silicone bands on the two faces of the wheel end for a perfect sealing, and I am done....

...as easy as that...the only exotic tool I needed was a 4mm tap, so now I can start serial production...