Whoa, Nellie - here's something unique!

Hey Sparkie! Check this out...

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Interesting! McCoy 19 Ignition!

Tim

LAST EDITED ON Nov-07-03 AT 07:34 PM (CST)
 
Not really unique Tim, just the way it was done up until Ray Arden invented the glow glow and revolutionised the hobby. Right around 46-46.

Well, maybe not unique, but you sure don't see them everyday... I had to find a short word so I wouldn't overrun the header...

Tim

Sparkers are really alot of fun to run as long as you make sure everything is correct. I remember a guy at an Old TImer Free Flight contest years ago the cranked and O&R .29 for hours and never got a pop. Later on he got it running and got his flights in. The problem? He forgot to set the timer and the ignition system was turned off.

From an old model mag, Airtrails - late '40's, I think:

Breathes there a man with soul so frank,
That he'll admit he's cranked and cranked,
Until the engine, when inspected,
Discloses wires quite disconnected.

>Hey Sparkie! Check this out...
>
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3154563341&category=34055
>
>Interesting! McCoy 19 Ignition!

I have (by virtue of my dad winning a stunt contest in 1947) a glow version of this engine. It actually runs pretty well - which is not necessarily the case with a lot of Ign.-Glow conversion.

There still are a lot of McCoy ignition motors out there, and they consistently bring great prices.

A few years ago, I restored a GM employee's Berkeley Helldiver and Veco Redskin, and got the OS Twinstack running on the latter. He knew nothing of these models, but he kept them as heirlooms (his term) related to his late uncle, who had owned them.

Anyway, unc had a large bunch of sparkie McCoy 60s and smaller racing McCoys, moving down from D to C to B Speed, etc. And, I recall, the planes too. But...during a move, the movers stole them...all of them. Gone.

I probably wouldn't have gotten them, but...I did relate to them what they were worth!

Tim-

Ironically, a ported, extremely worn, glow version of this engine was responsible for preserving my old "Whipsaw". Infatuated with this "exotic" rear-rotor McCoy .19 sometime around 1960, I traded for it and built the kit just for that engine, painting it to resemble Bill Werwages winning "Ares" pictured in American Modeler's 1959 Nats photos. It was woefully nose heavy. While refusing to start in my garage work area in the dead of winter, the ".19" nonetheless managed to cough burning fuel out onto a wing root and open bay. Patched, but with no appropriate engine, the plane lingered 40 more winters there in my parents' garage. 'heck of a way to preserve a plane. The cantankerous McCoy was apparently stolen before I cleaned out my old modeling stuff in 2001, but it had been the catalyst for some great youthful dreams.

SK

Really neat!!! I wonder what it sounds like?

Did this motor originally come with a "red head"? it is "candy apple red" per the description. Any ideas?