1fishnfool

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Are they still available?I was looking on the website and don`t see them.Maybe I am lost or something.

combatpigg

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They're due to have a bowel movement any day now.

flyinrog

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BAAAAA,HAHAHAHHAHAHAAA good one cp
that is if they have any fiber left

dckrsn

-I recieved this a few weeks ago.-

Hello,

I'm sorry, we had two groups of buyers come in and purchase all the engines that remained.

Thank you.
-Original Message-
From:
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 6:42 PM
To: Cox Sales
Subject: New Sales Request (SURE STARTS?)
Importance: High


Thank-you for contacting Cox Hobby Distributors Support.

Your Support Ticket ID is: 13391

The information contained in your request has been included below for your records.



Hi, Any chance of the Shure Start .049 becoming available again. Regards

Andrew

Guess we'll be seeing Sure Starts back on the market at 5 to 8 times the price from COX. [:@]

KidEpoxy

Dang.
Yeah, I bet we will see the Bay price shoot up now or not distant future.


Maybe when Cox sees the SureStart going for $35 from these guys
they will get the notion that maybe making small engines could work out ok.

MJD

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Interesting how many lots of pistons, cylinders, backplates etc. are showing up on that auction site these days.

OzMo

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ok so now I am PO at Cp for causing me to do a spit take all over the computer...LOL

Max_Power

Wow, kinda sad..Searches on the cox site now for: .049,Sure start, Or Engine turn up only a few big glow arf kits, And engine mount screws for the pt-19 and Viper. Even though the're just surestarts, I don't feel so silly now about telling all my relatives I wanted a few to stockpile last Christmas,lol

Tee Bee

I've noticed 2 bay sellers lately with what seems to be enormous inventories of new Cox parts and price-inflated Surestarts for sale. One of them is selling the Comanche helis for $49.95 even though they were recently available from Cox for $15. I was considering buying another one. Guess I waited too long. Oh well, at least this stuff looks like it will still be available for purchase for a while, albeit at a higher price than before.

flyinrog

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I think if they'd seen the .010's and .020's going for $100 they would get everrything back up and running, but no one seems to care about the 1/2a market....besides those last sure starts arent worth the $7 they wanted for them as runners...its like buying a glow head and they throw in the engine for free......Rog

NorfolkSouthern

How do the Sure Starts compare to the AP Wasp or Thunder Tiger GP-7s?

NorfolkSouthern

flyinrog

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Well the sure starts are what is known as the bottom of the barrel,,that is to say you may get a screamer or a dud...what I hear is the same with the wasp but my experience with the wasp has been a good one , and with a throttle,,the TT.07 is a very reliable engine lacking some power...meaning it doesnt have the power of a norvel .074 but it starts and runs like an OS...depends on the plane you want to power....Rog

Tee Bee

I've had fun with the little $7 engines. A little cleanup and piston/rod reset, and they've generally been good runners for me. I've also purchased a couple of good running "modded" surestarts that really perform well and it was nice to be able to buy the stockers so cheap for spare parts such as reed valves and gaskets. Just wish I had purchased more of them at that price. I'm a bit of a Cox fanatic so I've never had an AP or Thunder Tiger engine to compare them with.

MJD

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Not likely! Problem is, the thousand or so that might sell every year are a fraction of what is required to justify production. And, the fact that the present owner cares only about maximizing personal wealth [which does admittedly keep a business alive, but one would hope is hand in hand with some sense of empathy towards the market], and does not have one molecule of empathy towards the model aircraft market or anyone in it. There is less speculation in that statement than you might be assuming.

It will be a bloody miracle if you ever see anything you want from Cox again, under the present ownership at least. It's like having that beautiful old mill or stonework town hall that's been there since whenever being sold to foreign developers and razed to the ground to make room for a condo or strip mall.

MJD

ndb8fxe

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Still $10 on Ebay.