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RE: Testors/McCoy 049 - 1/5/2008 3:30:58 AM   
gittarpikk



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reminds me , I own a red-headed diesel version of the McCoy Testor...with the tank... I never ran it..
May place a few motors in the RCU classifieds... I have several "interesting" ones .074 Fury Twin, some old ignitions etc.. I recall seeing an auction on feebay that brought $650 samoleuns for a NIB Fury twin... Anyone really know the best way to sell a few of those older motors..? Got some old nearly new Blue head McCoys... bunch o good stuff.


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RE: Testors/McCoy 049 - 1/5/2008 3:40:44 AM   
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Sorry, ProBroJoe beat you to it, via pm. Thanks for the interest, he's taking the whole package, that is, unless shipping is too expensive.

Thanks to everyone for the great info, I've found a lot of good stuff here on rcuniverse forums. Now if I could just get my Yellow Bee to stop cartwheeling, I'd bee happy.

Glenn

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RE: Testors/McCoy 049 - 1/5/2008 4:40:04 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hey Joe. I just got another LA46. That P-38 is getting a lot bigger. Wonder how much ordnance she will carry?

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RE: Testors/McCoy 049 - 1/5/2008 5:31:20 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Fravits

Back in the late Sixtes and early Seventies, I started using both Wen-Mac and Testor/McCoy .049s simply to stand out from the rather dreary sameness of all the Cox engines running about. Don't get me wrong, I love and have been quite successful with all manner of Cox products, but how many Babe Bees can you have? The Testors/McCoy option was a nice change of pace. Who knew that they would work so well? My favorite, equiped with that long, flexy-cable needle valve, was podded on top of a Midwest Lil'T sailplane. and flew for many years before prudence dictated that the airframe needed to be retired or, at least , extensively refurbished. That little .049 literally ran for hours and hours, being fed by a one ounce klunk tank on just about every flight. Running it was truly a fire and forget scenario. The recoil starter was easier to use than the Cox spring and, when running on Cox Blue Can, plugs seemed to last forever.

The Lil'T first took off in December of '69 and now is slowly being rebuilt, completion scheduled for it's fortieth anneversary in '09. With the exception of a modern radio (although the original Digit Migit works fine), She'll be just like new. Orange silk, rudder only, and being pulled up by the same high time McCoy that served so well for so long. Amazing little motor that you just can't kill!


I ALSO HAD A MIDWEST LIL'T WITH A DIGIT MIGIT SINGLE CHANNEL UNIT I ALSO STILL HAVE THE AIRBORNE BRICK BUT THE TRANSMITTER DISAPEARED LONG AGO ALTHOUGH I WAS ABLE TO GET IT TO WORK NOT LONG AGO WITH A MODERN AM TRANSMITTER
BACK TO THE SUBJECT OF THE TESTOR/MCCOY 049 DOES ANYONE REMEMBER SEEING THESE WITH A THROTTLE SLEAVE IT JUST SEEMS LIKE I HAD ONE WHEN I WAS A TEEN I THINK IT MAY HAVE COME FROM A PLASTIC CONTROL LINE PLANE BUT I MAY HAVE BOUGHT THE ENGINE BY ITSELF NOT SURE BUT I AM PRETTY SURE THAT IT HAD A THROTTLE SLEEVE AM I JUST LOOSING IT IN MY OLD AGE OR DID SUCH AN ENGINE EXIST?

RICHARD BROWNING


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RE: Testors/McCoy 049 - 1/5/2008 6:06:08 AM   
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Status: online 		I remember them having a "muffler", which was a silver ring that wrapped all the way around the lower cylinder, around the exh. ports. I don't recall seeing or having any Testors/McCoy's with throttle though?


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RE: Testors/McCoy 049 - 1/5/2008 7:41:34 AM   
Fravits


 

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I have two different versions of the Digit Migit, one with the black trans. case, and one that is sort of a greenish bronze color. Both bricks are blue. Don't know why the change, but they both have worked flawlessly over the years. With the LiL' T pushing thirty-eight years since it's first flight (December, 1969), I am going to go for another (fourth) refit. A new stab (always a weak point), a new lower spar on the left inner wing panel, covering and paint and we are back in business. No Monokote this time, but back to the original orange silk. Mind-numbingly beautiful when the sun shines through it. I will go with a new radio, but you can bet that trusty old McCoy will still be hauling her around!

Reid

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RE: Testors/McCoy 049 - 1/5/2008 5:31:35 PM   
tweedy



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Status: offline 		My Lil'T is long gone but I built it about the same time a you built yours 69 I think, I was 16, covered it with red Monokote on the wings and and tail, white on the fus. and used a High Start out of 50' of 1/4" flat brown Sig Rubber, and 100 feet of fishing line. My Digit Migit had the black transmitter, I put it in a Sterling 63' motor Chris Craft that I built in the Army and has recantly been restored by my kid brother for his kids. I have a small drawing of the Lil'T in one of Frank Zaic's books that I am thinking of scaling up and I noticed that on the drawing the horizontal Stab is built up from layers of sheet balsa leaving a hollow area inside and is planed ad sanded to a airfoil shape. I don't remember the kit being built that way, I recall a standerd built up structure?
As for the Testors 049 I am almost sure that it was a throttle not a muffler had the funny shaped black prop and a spring starter and a tank mount.

Richard Browning

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RE: Testors/McCoy 049 - 1/5/2008 5:48:43 PM   
proptop



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The only Testors/McCoys I have came out of the "Fly 'Em" series airplanes.
All of mine have the black plastic case and built in tank, and one had the muffler on it, but I don't recall which plane it came out of.

IIRC that muffler choked most of the power from it...not that it could spare any


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RE: Testors/McCoy 049 - 1/6/2008 7:48:35 AM   
Fravits


 

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Status: offline 		Richard,

The Ziac Yearbook does show a rather oddly-layered, sheet stab arraingment for the"T". I built mine like the kit said, but it is rather weak in stock form. If you drag a wing on landing, you will ground loop and whack the tail down hard on the sub-rudder/skid. Do it hard enough and you'll snap the stab in half. My latest version (#5) has diagonals in each bay and I beefed up the center section with carbon fiber. Cutting off the sub-rudder helped, too. I covered mine with silk on the wing, Jap tissue stab, and a highly doped fuselage. Wings and tail were later recovered a few times in Monokote. I'm going to make things a bit easier on the McCoy this time by going from a one ounce to a half ounce tank. A full tank of fuel used to take it almost OOS. My eyes won't play that game anymore. By the way, I do remember seeing a picture in American Modeler of a Lil' T that had been blown up to a twelve foot span with no polyhedral. Pretty impressive.

Reid

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RE: Testors/McCoy 049 - 1/12/2008 5:06:07 AM   
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Status: offline 		Today I made a short video of a testors .049 engine with a 7x3 Master Airscrew propeller. To day it was running at 11,000 + rpm but yesterday it was running at 12,400 with the same prop. I don't know what the difference was. About the most I can get out of a cox sure start with a 7x3 prop is about 10,000 rpm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LunaMGVi1hM

< Message edited by propjobbill -- 1/12/2008 5:08:50 AM >

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RE: Testors/McCoy 049 - 1/18/2008 1:17:38 AM   
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Status: offline 		Bill, blame the weather, works for me. I am happy to report the little T/M 049 responded well to the glow plug adapters I purchased . Needed some fitting and an extra head gasket or two but overall runs great, and versatile since I can choose the glow plugs heat range and even adjust the compression without removing the adapter.

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