ORIGINAL: Cyberwolf
Thimbledrome 049 on a Plastic piper cub back in 1959 ,that name later changed to the Cox brand name. That engine never did run *LOL* Even the pro at the LHS couldnt get it to run for over a few secs at a time.
Unlike ED my second was a wen mac and it ran flawless on a corsair .But like many others have stated it wasn't until I got into the all wood CL planes that I learned what a real CL plane was supposed to fly like.
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The Corsair was made for many, many years. Over a decade. As a result, I'll bet it had nearly every variation of Wen-Mac in it. I never did have much luck with the Wen-Mac engines until the Mk. IV series. This is not to say that previous engines did not run, they did, upon occasion.
Looking back on it, I think that a large part of the problems we kids had in my area was due to our local hobbyshop not cycling enough 1.5 VDC carbon zinc ignition batteries through the store to keep us in fresh batteries. I also noticed that some glow engines did not need a particularly hot ignition battery, while others absolutely required it.
Keep in mind too that this was my very first personally owned engine. Who knows what I might have been doing wrong? But it is strange that while I couldn't get my own Wen-Mac to start worth a hoot, I was the pit crew for modelers that owned other makes of engines and I was their preferred starting man. Go figure.
Ed Cregger