ORIGINAL: Wayne C

Okay, this may be hard to believe, but as a teenager short on cash and several miles from a hobby store, I learned that .049 Cox engines could be coaxed to run on several household chemicals including WD-40 and some aftershaves. Only problem most didn't provide enough power to actually fly the airplanes. Some of the things i tried probably didn't lubricate nearly well enough if at all but I wasn't thinking about that at the time. I just wanted the engine to run.