Looking for a metal backplate for extended tank

ncpiperpilot Sat Jan 20, 2024 8:22 pm

Looking for a metal backplate, no filler nipples, as this engine has an extended tank.

Thanks,
Bill

ncpiperpilot Sat Jan 20, 2024 8:29 pm

Be good if I said it was a Cox 049

getback Sun Jan 21, 2024 7:09 am

Hi , Is it a extension like this or you make ur own , >>

Looking for a metal backplate for extended tank Babe_b10

If so how you going to get fuel in it ? Huh...

ncpiperpilot Sun Jan 21, 2024 7:24 am

getback wrote:Hi , Is it a extension like this or you make ur own , >> If so how you going to get fuel in it ?

Its a Cox standard extended tank, like a Golden Bee or Black Widow has. It has fuel nipples (filler/vent) on the top and bottom of the tank itself. Backplate has none.

Thanks,
Bill

getback Sun Jan 21, 2024 7:55 am

Sorry Bill ,I dont have one at this time . If you look on eBay you may can pick up a junker you can salvage one from . They are hard to come by . Oh wait if you don't mine plastic >>> https://coxengines.ca/back-end/cox--049-black-widow-golden-bee-backplate.html Snowman

**944_Jim** Sun Jan 21, 2024 8:29 am

Yup. Buy plastic now, plug holes, run engine now.

ncpiperpilot Sun Jan 21, 2024 8:51 am

Thanks guys, appreciate the input. I realize i can get plastic, there's one on there now and it is warped and leaks like a sieve. I'd like to find a metal one...hopefully someone will have one lying around gathering dust :-)

**944_Jim** Sun Jan 21, 2024 12:15 pm

But don't feel the need to search for "only" 8cc Silver/Golden/Black Bee backs. You can pick up any one of the 5cc backplates and plug the fill/vent ports. If you score a double-nipple backplate, you can run a piece of fuel line between the two nipples. This effectively will seal them without making irreversible changes. Even toothpicks smeared in epoxy or JBWeld and stuffed in the holes will be only "barely permanent," but it will work long enough to continue enjoying the engine.

ncpiperpilot Sun Jan 21, 2024 2:30 pm

Thanks Jim, thats a geat idea.
...Bill

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