Motors past.
Posted: 03 Mar 2018, 20:08
First engine was at the age of 10 or so. Enya 09 1V. Dad gave up trying to start it for me so I skulked off to the shed determined to get it going on my own. Weeks later...finally managed. I ran into the kitchen with it still screwed to the bit of wood I'd clamped into the workbench vice to start it, shouting to my Mam 'it's going!! it's going!!
I remember as a teen getting a box of engines one Christmas shortly after that, it must have been a local modeler selling up, so I got this shoe box of motors. (Best present ever lol). From memory, Enya 09, Thunder Tiger 25, HB? 40 PDP, Cox Golden Bee, and an OS10. I got them all running. They ended up in a variety of control liners, apart from the 40. What a lovely motor that was. I had it attached to dads saw horse, and it used to pull the thing along the path. Goodness knows what happened to them. I think they may have been sold to fund my first motorbike. (Yamaha DT50MX) Wish I had them back.
I found a FROG 100 redhead in a charity shop, must have been late 80's. My finger got swollen to twice it's normal size getting that going. I have never used a chicken finger.
Getting back into model aircraft a few years back I got an original Mills, (lovely starter) an MP Jet .040, (they always seem to have over-tight contra pistons, but excellent otherwise) and a Boddo Mills. (Bit asthmatic but still bit me enough to scar, swapping hands to launch a free flight Tomboy).
I tend to buy motors, run them for a bit, and then sell them on, not being much of a collector, more of a temporary custodian. Lately I have been on a DC binge, with a Wasp, Merlin and Sabre being purchased. I'm after a Spitfire now, and would love a Bambi, but my pockets aren't that deep..Just love British motors.
I've had a few Red Fin motors too. They're very good, but not retro or vintage of course.
Electric motors? Love 'em, the trade off with not having as much character is that they don't give your models a patina of decay!. I think the popular ones will eventually become 'classics' just like their IC counterparts.
I remember as a teen getting a box of engines one Christmas shortly after that, it must have been a local modeler selling up, so I got this shoe box of motors. (Best present ever lol). From memory, Enya 09, Thunder Tiger 25, HB? 40 PDP, Cox Golden Bee, and an OS10. I got them all running. They ended up in a variety of control liners, apart from the 40. What a lovely motor that was. I had it attached to dads saw horse, and it used to pull the thing along the path. Goodness knows what happened to them. I think they may have been sold to fund my first motorbike. (Yamaha DT50MX) Wish I had them back.
I found a FROG 100 redhead in a charity shop, must have been late 80's. My finger got swollen to twice it's normal size getting that going. I have never used a chicken finger.
Getting back into model aircraft a few years back I got an original Mills, (lovely starter) an MP Jet .040, (they always seem to have over-tight contra pistons, but excellent otherwise) and a Boddo Mills. (Bit asthmatic but still bit me enough to scar, swapping hands to launch a free flight Tomboy).
I tend to buy motors, run them for a bit, and then sell them on, not being much of a collector, more of a temporary custodian. Lately I have been on a DC binge, with a Wasp, Merlin and Sabre being purchased. I'm after a Spitfire now, and would love a Bambi, but my pockets aren't that deep..Just love British motors.
I've had a few Red Fin motors too. They're very good, but not retro or vintage of course.
Electric motors? Love 'em, the trade off with not having as much character is that they don't give your models a patina of decay!. I think the popular ones will eventually become 'classics' just like their IC counterparts.