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[Stuphedd]

A pal is quitting the hobby after many many years and has some " new " in boxes oldish engines .

 

This one is a Cox Baby Bee it says  but how old is it ?? is it £3.95 or was it $3.95    I have offered him both currencies  but he and I know its worth more !!

so any ideas ??  He also has a Meteor 61 new ??

[Shaun Walsh]

Have as look here

Cox engines

[John Lee]

To get an idea of value go on eBay, search 'Cox Baby Bee' and then select 'UK only' & 'sold items'. You will see about a dozen have sold this year, going for around £15-£30.

[Don Fry]

I would say, why do you want them. 
I think the value of those motors will evaporate to zero when we fall off our perch. As in ashtrays are not very collectible nowadays. Few interested in a load of motors, equals low pricing. The little Cox will still do it’s job, but the Meteor is a rough old motor, totally eclipsed by a modern offering.

For your nostalgia, fair enough, but for use, or investment, no.

[Rich Griff]

Dens model supplies stocks new engines and parts in UK.

 

Coxmodelengine forum is a gold mine for Cox stuff...USA based I believe but members world wide...

 

ANY other Cox engines for sales ?

 

ANY Enya engines for sale ?

 

An untouched hi boy kit ???

 

Please pm me...

[David Davis 2]

I used to have a Meteor 60. I paid next to nothing for it and I gave it to a lad who had just left the Legion. It ran but I realised that I had two OS 61 SFs doing nothing and they are far superior engines. They are still doing nothing but I have plans for one of them.

[Stuphedd]

Thanks  chaps , the Cox wiki is very interesting , and yes he has a good few Coxs as shown .

 

and I think they are great , the TEE DEEs, although its a Norvel  that powers my 1/2A Mustangs !!

[Engine Doctor]

If you want to use the Cox then at that age it will be a good one. Modern Cox or the last generation are rubbish by comparison.  Millions in circulation and make an irritating noise !  Excellent examples only bring £20 - £30 if your lucky. I reckon that price is from early decimalisation . The Teepee range still fetch a good price but for best prices boxes must be mint as well.

There are still a few collectors for the Meteor if it's NIB should bring around £70 but selling it on  ebay you may get a surprise! 

Edited March 5, 2022 by Engine Doctor

[J D 8]

         Flew my TD 051 powered CL Midget Mustang last year [ not been flown for 25ish ] What a racket/howl, quite scary firing up as they go to flat out straight away if set right. A couple of two and a half min flights was enough.? And just about able to stand up at the end. ?

[Engine Doctor]

As JD8 says having a go at CL flying again does test the balance a bit. A few of us at the club gave one another a laugh as  we tried to walk in straight line after a short flight. Its like whirly pits without the hang over ?. 

At open days before the pandemic our club would have a CL area for youngsters to have a go with a small Cox CL model . We used it for raising funds for our Air Ambulance charity . One of our members was at the center most of the day!  He hardly ever gets dizzy . Another, sadly no longer with us got so dizzy he started to walk backwards that turned into a sort of a run followed by a backwards roll ?. 

The good thing about these little Cox engines is that as they are light and use light airframes , damage is usually very light and engines rarely get damaged atall and all using a minimum ammount of fuel.

[Don Fry]

Last time I used a Cox, a 1.5 cc thing with a Black head with a pipe, found in a box, I built C/L airframe, a team racer of some sort, soldered a tank up, upped a bit of fuel to 25 nitromethane.  all fitted and second childhood here I come. 
After a couple of laps, this is quick.

Few more, how long does this go for, a while later, don’t feel well.

Please run out of fuel.

A bit later, can I land it, flat out. Daft idiot

Crash it?

And I hung on in there, and it stopped, and I landed, bent over, fell to my knees, a puked ?, and ?, and ?, and heaved, and ?. 

I gave it away. 
 

[Stuphedd]

We did a club demo at a Nuneaton  many years ago , where they had a central area surrounded  by the public !  Dose not bear thinking about nowadays !!

My 1/2A Mustang powered by a TD051 was fast and smooth flying , so was part of the display . no throttle  so it just ran on the 2 oz tank ??? which was always long enough . At the demo it went on and on  , the Tannoy bellowed out , "would the flying club please land your time is up." But the engine would not cut , at least 3 pilots tried to kill the fuel flow , vertical climbs ,snap rolls , inverted , all the lot but to no avail .The adjoining railway line was our only safe ish area in which to put it down ,  

It did land eventually  in a pile of sawdust in the arena  where the Shire horses had been !!

It was never invited again ! thank goodness