charlie n

Well-known Member
Of you can say this was your first tool?


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Naaa, this is a skate key. They were really good to have to keep those skates tight. Then you find out how easy it is to rip the soles of your shoes off. Man would your parents ever get P.
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My first tool was a small claw hammer that grandpa gave me when the folks were building a new house. The house we rented was sold, and we lived in the basement while the contractor built the upstairs,I was 5 and had to help all of the time :)
 
(quoted from post at 16:08:10 05/13/18) NOW I remember. Baby Bee and Golden Bee, glow plug and cylinder wrench.


The first 0.49 Cox airplane I had was a tether plane. It had two strings approx 20' long attached to it that controlled the elevation only.

If I remember correctly. The glow plug was made into the cylinder head and the head had to be replaced each time the plug burned out.

Up until around 2005 I owned a bunch of 1/10 and 1/4 scale RC model cars, trucks and buggies. Running .18 - .21 nitro engines was a total different ball game that that first 0.49 COX.
 
I have a number of those wrenches that are used to take down Cox.49 engines. That is what I have in my micro mini pulling tractors.
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I had one of those Cox model airplanes. I got it to run briefly, like for 4 seconds, once out of I don't know how many attempts, hundreds at least. So much for my interest in flying!
 
I don't recall the wrench but I had a yellow Piper Cub. It was controlled with two lines if I ever got it running, all I could make it do was spit and sputter, might have been too young for it, think I was about 10.
 

A friend and I built the balsa and paper models that those engines went into. We had only one or two engines each, but we kept building more model planes. They sure could go into the ground awfully fast!
 

A friend and I built the balsa and paper models that those engines went into. We had only one or two engines each, but we kept building more model planes. They sure could go into the ground awfully fast!
 
They were not hard starting. Three of my stactors had recoil starters and the one in picture below had electric start. I think I had a
dozen of these engines built and ready to put in tractor. They had a short life they turned upwards of over 22,000 RPM.
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