Sad day at LHS

I went up to Hub Hobby today to see if I could find some 1/4" conductive foil tape (which I did not find) and I thought I would see what they still had for Cox stuff. Most of the Cox stuff was cleared out a few years ago with me and a few other buying it but they always had a few things like a few Sure Starts, Cox props, glow head clips and at least 20 or so wrench kits that included a starter stick, 2 .049 wrenches and a piece of fuel tubing. I haven't been up there for quite some time so they moved things around. No sure starts in the engine case, no glow head clips, no cox props (with the exception of what I bought today) and no wrench kits. I asked if they moved any of it and they said "oh we're done with that stuff, we put everything on sale and it even took a long time to get rid of that". They said that they had to lower the Sure Starts down to about $8 before they would sell (where was I when they did this?), the wrench kits down to 50¢ each (again, where was I?) and the props down to 50¢ to $1 each... I found the last 4 cox gray 8x4 props for $1 each. I told them about Cox International and Ex Model Engines (again) but he said "there doesn't seem to be a market for these items anymore, nowhere to fly them, too noisy and electric is just plain 100 times better". While I was there, I thought I would try to get those Tornado props again which they had a good sized box of at least 20 or 30. They put them their back room because another person told them that they are dangerous. The first guy I was talking to had no idea what I was talking about but the older guy a few feet away said that they threw those out months ago...


On top of all this, the 1/4" shiny tape which looked like it would be foil turned out to be plastic... so yeah, a little bummed today.


They do on the other hand still have props that would work with these small engines as well as castor oil and overpriced 1/2A fuel.