rainedave

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Auction number: 280293967873

Don't let it slip away!

David

ebeneezer3

Mercy! Lovely engine but at 1505.00 I had to let it slip away.[]

build light

It will simply have to be enough to see the nice pictures of it.

It really is a pretty gem!

I suppose none will ever be run much less be flown... Sad.

Robert

Tee Bee

Wish they made one of those for the masses. Maybe in a plain cast finish to save some $. Ok, I'm through dreaming. Back to your regular programing.

skaliwag

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Darn,... I missed it.
Someone else is diversifying their investments from Stocks and R/E.

MJD

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I almost wish I was copiously wealthy, so I could buy one and thrash it on a 1/2A combat plane or blow it up with a shaft run. Then I'd post it on You Tube just to see the collector's reactrions!

Or buy two and be nice to the other one maybe..

MJD

combatpigg

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I hope the buyer is a 11 year old kid who plans on bolting it to a rare Cox C/L plane and then has a blast doing the full stunt pattern with it over asphalt.

vicman

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Or you could be nice to me and make it a gift

longdan

I can see why they don't make alot of them. If they made lots, they wouldn't be worth that much money.

Silvaire

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Assume that the number of only 70 of these engines being produced is accurate.

If so, what do you think O.S.'s actual cost per engine was to design, tool, produce, market and sell them?

Just something to think about...

Arlen

longdan

The ad says "Only 70 engines were made for OS" not made by OS

Did they farm this out to someone else?
I'd be interested to see some performance figures on these. Will they outperform a Norvel? Just cos its shiny and rare, does't mean its actually any good

rainedave

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I read somewhere that they were made "for" execs within the company. So maybe they actually were made by the OS factory for OS employees, hence, the "made for OS."

David

flyinrog

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I read they were made for distributors, but the last one I saw went for about half of that one, I think is was $705 or close to that,,a few of us bombed the OS site but the mod BAX basically just told us to stop it,, have no idea how it runs...Rog

combatpigg

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$1500 is probably the break even point...?
They could have made a small batch for testing that didn't show much promise from either a performance or marketing stand point and then pulled the plug on it.
Sounds better to just call it a limited edition collectible.

rainedave

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My guess is that it has a similar power to weigh ratio as the Toki.

combatpigg

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2008's almost over and we haven't seen anything in the way of Toki based 1/2A projects yet. The suspense is almost too much to bear.

rainedave

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Well, if rog will give me his I'll build something for it. If someone else pitches in I'll scale down these plans and build this B25.

David

combatpigg

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Sounds like a great group project for the Carolina Crew.
The most important thing to have with small twins is reliable engine kills. My twin bomber eventually "spun in" even though one of the .074s was at idle while the other was dead. I'm going to wire the carbs wide open and dedicate the throttle servos to pinch the fuel lines off.
I've got a larger twin .049 bipe that flies all day with just one Cox TD screaming away, but it has a huge [totally non scale] rudder to compensate.

planebuilder66

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Somewhere I have a in flight fuel adjustment valve, from when I was into ducted fan jets, I think sullivan or perry made it, just hook the servo to it and kill the fuel in an instant. I still have it sitting around here somewhere, all I remember is it was pretty easy to vary the amount of fuel from off to full flow, nice and handy to have when the os .91's tended to get hotter and hotter the more you layed into the throttle for longer periods of time.

flyinrog

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Mine is in a sig rascal sitting on top of my TV...it runs fine, just havent had the weather to fly it yet,,,built it for a friend that has a pond, told him if it doesnt work out with the Toki..I'll put an OS .10 on it and get some floats for it....the Toki has about 3 tanks through it, in my front yard..runs well,, just havent flown it......Rog