Rare Cox parts wanted...gotta fly these babies!!!

Hi Jason, thanks for the info. I had a feeling these would be hard to find. I suspected as much about the Strato Bug parts, looks like I will end up with another Space Bug Junior to play with, I've got a spare tank for one somewhere, or I could cobble up a lookalike replica tank and fit a Junior backplate, looks like it might work. I know several people who have had TD drive plates re-anodised and the colour and quality of the work leaves a bit to be desired. I'll probably fit Medallion ones for the meantime just to get the beasties up and running. I went on to MECOA site and could only find TD spinners, maybe I missed the Space Hopper ones. I'll try again soon.

Cheers, Rob

Here it is on their eBay store.

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=271091244452&globalID=EBAY-US

Looks like the price went up. I don't remember paying that much in the past.

Hi Jason, thanks for the link. The price is not a problem, but that bit about 'does not ship to United Kingdom' kinda puts the brakes on. Oh, well...

Cheers, Rob

You might look around for a early O.K. Cub .049B the spinner looks the same and the head would fit an early small diameter Cox cylinder so you can use a glowplug.

Now THAT's the sort of information worth having!! Thanks for that, Mark. I wonder how many OK Cubs have been robbed already in the name of originality by RR-1 and Space Hopper owners...
Cheers, Rob

OK, I've accepted that finding a genuine Strato Bug tank is not gonna happen- the poor old girl is never gonna BE a real Strato again. Maybe that's not a bad thing, I would be too scared to fly the thing if it was! But at least I can try and make it LOOK like one. I saw on a thread that some enterprising soul (?) has made CNC copies ( or was it a one-off? ) of a Strato tank that my spare clear SBJ rear plate will fit on, any ideas where can I get my grubby mitts on one of those? No worries about damaging a copy! It's that or fit the whole SBJ tank, I guess.
The Space Hopper is now scrubbed up and looking good, but with a TD spinner till I get a proper one, and one of the Special .15's is finished, run, and sold already, even with the silver Medallion propdriver on it. I only need one gold drive plate now.

Cheers, Rob

Hey Rob Welcome to the forum the fake tanks were brought up at one time and I think is in one of these threads if you want to look ..,,, .watch for the dates they were posted that can throw ya off https://www.coxengineforum.com/search?search_keywords=strato+bug Eric That Ian has a fist full of those things he might would know , I wanted one but $500.00 is out of my league

And mine too, Getback! Stumped again, I'll have to do some measurements and see if I can modify/mangle a new cross-vent Bee tank into something like it. If I didn't want a runner I'd just knock up a solid dummy on the lathe, but there's no fun in that. Birds gotta fly! Looking more and more like another SBJ in my fleet. Still gotta find a donor OK Cub 049b for the head and spinner, my problem is I hate robbing a complete engine for parts, so I have to find the bits I need with as little engine attached as possible, or I'd likely end up restoring it!