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fox. 15 vintage small fin s around crankcase
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fox. 15 vintage small fin s around crankcase
i was at local swap meet today got some great deals a fox. 15 with nice prop and nose cone for 5.00 and two helicopters in original boxes like new for 60.00 one hobbie store price on front 300.00 the other had to resurch for 160.00 both for 60.00 dollars im a happy camper didnt even have to dicker,sopouse to both ready to fly hope hes truthful hes president of neighbour hood rc club im thinking of joining!what i really want to ask is this. 15 fox is complete seems to have great compression srews seem never to have been disturbed if i just give this a good soak and polish it up externally should this be good enough rather than open it up break gaskets that you dont know were to get considering theres not much in there but a piston an crank its probably from 70s
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Re: fox. 15 vintage small fin s around crankcase
I have run many castor glued gunked up Fox engines. I just dump a little alcohol through the engine, free it up an fire it off.
Fox engines are pretty stout. Just fire it off and don't worry.
Fox engines are pretty stout. Just fire it off and don't worry.
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Re: fox. 15 vintage small fin s around crankcase
If they are never run new pop the backplate and flush them out. Fox is good with QC regarding chips, but better safe than sorry.
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Re: fox. 15 vintage small fin s around crankcase
Don't know about the Fox's, but I bought 2 Fuji .099S-II RC engines in the mid 1980's. They were on clearance at Hobby Shack, Fountain Valley, CA. Don't remember the exact cost, it was $5 or $10 each. When I took them home, both were full of aluminum machining shavings in the crankcase. It was a good thing that I didn't even attempt to turn them over until I had disassembled them.
Thus I learned a lesson to check all new and unrun engines beforehand by removing the crankcase cover.
I'm sure Fox has good QA, as they (or used to) run every engine before boxing.
Shortly after, Fuji became history, although their products seemed decent.
Thus I learned a lesson to check all new and unrun engines beforehand by removing the crankcase cover.
I'm sure Fox has good QA, as they (or used to) run every engine before boxing.
Shortly after, Fuji became history, although their products seemed decent.
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Re: fox. 15 vintage small fin s around crankcase
Thanks for the advice ithink i may open the back and have a look this engine what i can find out is a 1962 fox. 15 old engines have acool style and even if they only become shelf displays but iwant to try and run it .what is five bucks these days it came with a nice vintage prop and nose cone that are perfect!
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Re: fox. 15 vintage small fin s around crankcase
If the old prop is Nylon then be wary. They have been known to break once they have some age on them.
Wear glasses!
Wear glasses!
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