Looks like the perfect engine for an old Ringmaster.

So good to see/hear this! I have an almost identical Fox 35 I bought new in '78, the only difference I can ascertain being mine has mounts for a muffler cast into the exhaust but mine looks equally as crusty as yours. It was a fabulous motor in the day but very sensitive to throttle position. I learnt to set it too lean before takeoff because the centrifugal forces in flight would pressure feed the fuel and it would run too rich. I've been wanting to get mine going again for about forty years...

A chicken stick, and then anelectric starter?? Uh-ahh, nope, just get your fingers right in there and get 'er fired up... 😜 Nice little vintage engine.

@xKmotx

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣

@davelowets

Жыл бұрын

@@xKmotx 🍻

Used a Fox 35 on a stunt plane in the early 70s. It was quite a step up from an 049. There were a few of us, even grown ups! Piles of fun cutting streamers too. I was 11ish. I'm the reason you can't fly control line planes in most school yards. Still have the motor, but now I fly R/C.

@xKmotx

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment. :) I flew my Cox P-40 in schoolyards, and I remember before then the Cox PT-19's being used in practically every school yard. I flew mine well into Jr. High school in wide open school yards. Today, school yards look like prison yards. Such a shame. So sad how things have gone.

@m1t2a1

5 ай бұрын

@@xKmotx My old P.S. still has 3 ball diamonds, a soccer field, playground, a toboggan hill, and trees. Suburbs, eh. When I was there 75 kids a year moved from grade 6 to the next school. Now it's 20. So much space to not be able to fly in. Partly because of me. A set of monkey bars there ate my first r/c plane. Balsa and tissue everywhere. The monkey bars are still there. In 76, so I was 14. Let's not forget Estes model rockets! How to get the police at your door... Attach a Roman candle to a model rocket. Once used a rocket assisted takeoff. Wrecked a Cox Spitfire and Mustang before it worked on a P-40. In the long run you are correct. The good times are over. I wish a buck was still silver.

@xKmotx

5 ай бұрын

@@m1t2a1 🤣🤣🤣

Ive got a brand new one, still in the box

I flew one of these in a Ringmaster in the 1950s. Purchased it used from Gilbert's Hobby Shop (long gone now) in Gettysburg, PA.

@thomasdobbs9001

17 күн бұрын

I have 9 Fox 35s all run and 3 are on U-Control planes, 2 are over 30 years old, I have been in this Hobby since 1954, I am 80 years old😅

Got the same motor. Bought New when I was 13, 1969. Put it on a Nobler. A little over power, but ooo lala. 65 years old and still got it.

@xKmotx

2 жыл бұрын

That's awesome! 🙂

Good thing you got it this late in life. No way you had that much patience as a kid.

@xKmotx

3 жыл бұрын

Ha ha ha, I would have poured glue on it and set it on fire! 🤣

@Jimmyzb36

Жыл бұрын

yes no electric starter back then.

I used to use my fingers to turn it over, that's where the bruises came from

I miss this feeling, noise, smell and oily hands managing nitro motors 😀

@xKmotx

3 жыл бұрын

You can live it again Ricc! 😉

@chiloschista

3 жыл бұрын

@@xKmotx Yes indeed, I have to bring out something, maybe just try to fire the Wankel I finally found last year 😃

@philmann3476

Жыл бұрын

And the minor nicks and cuts on the back of the fingers, which we'd wear with pride. No chicken sticks for any self-respecting young guy back in the day. (It was our version of dueling scars at Heidelberg.)

I have three of those, and I make my own fuel, same formula as ye olde Fox fuel. Lubrication is castor oil, not that pink synthetic swill that is used today. The engine willl run better as well.

Fox Engines Rule

You can see no fuel in line

I got two of those they were stuck got them to work great engines.

@xKmotx

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! 👍

@davelowets

Жыл бұрын

Yep. That ole Castor oil gums up over time, and can lock an engine up right tight. Splash a little new fuel around it, and in it, and they usually loosen right back up. Unless it's covered with rust inside..

Runs pretty well for how old it is. Should be a good match for a control line kit.

Looks like powermaster fuel, ive got an old fox 35 looks just like that one ,she runs good its got a tapered needle valve in it im not sure if it came that way or if somebody did that to it but runs fabulous , if hard to start check back plate for leaks

@xKmotx

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it is Powermaster. Been a fan of that brand fuel for decades. I added a little bit extra castor oil just for this old engine. 🙂

COOL.

@markshepperd9377

Жыл бұрын

I just got 5 of them a Mccoy & the guy I got them from says he got the planes too....I'm getting them this week

Yo tenía un Mc Coy 35!

@migueldariosilva1183

17 күн бұрын

Varios 0;49 Cox y un Diesel FROG Inglés.

Yeah, put that on a Ringmaster.

@BansheeFifteen

17 күн бұрын

I know a guy who had a Ringmaster with a Fox 35 and he could fly the pattern with it. Also a Carl Goldberg Shoestring, Buster or Cosmic Wind would be good ideas.. I have a few Foxs, I bet with minimal work I could get one running. It's timeless.

@JohnSaylock-ec4cd

4 күн бұрын

I had a ,19 on my R.M. flew great

@user-di8ww7xg3g

2 күн бұрын

Have 3 ringmasters. These fly good on 10% nitro. Always use my fingers to start. Also he needs to clock prop at 2 o'clock on compression

@user-di8ww7xg3g

2 күн бұрын

They fly good on a voodoo too

outstanding, but not in full song. It will go faster.

@xKmotx

4 ай бұрын

I was afraid to lean it out. Didn't want to break anything on this old trooper.

They use to make them to last...

@xKmotx

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, they did. This one is proof, 😊

I have several of these and all run. I use 2 fingers not a chicken stick.lol. I also have a .29 and a .59. Still fly control line today

Prime it

@xKmotx

6 ай бұрын

Okay

Just found three of them, now I got to fire them up, wish me luck!

@xKmotx

Жыл бұрын

Best of luck! :) Use fuel with castor oil. These old engines relied on it back in the day.

@mariodelgado9729

Жыл бұрын

@@xKmotx Yes I got some SIG's 5 % plus I will ad a little more castor.

@xKmotx

Жыл бұрын

@@mariodelgado9729 Perfect! :)

@mariodelgado9729

Жыл бұрын

@@xKmotx Just one question, where was the sweet spot on the needle setting? I seem to have two types of needles two flat and one regular round type.

@xKmotx

Жыл бұрын

@@mariodelgado9729 Oh gee, I did not take notes. And I disassembled and cleaned the engine after shooting this video. So I don't remember if I counted the needle turns at that time. But I just went and counted it now, and it is open 3 1/4 from closed.

I don't think I could spin in circles like I used to with falling

@xKmotx

2 ай бұрын

lol... at my age I risk falling just walking a straight line! 😂

@Tomc528

2 ай бұрын

@xKmotx just found my fox35 still in the box with paper work but missing part of the needle valve. It's a little stiff but thanks to ebay I ordered a new valve and am gonna start it just for my neighbors to enjoy. Thanks

@xKmotx

2 ай бұрын

@@Tomc528 Awesome!!