i have to agree with you bassfisher, fox engs. are those love or hate engs. if your a ture blue eng. man you will uselly lov them if you have a hard time with engs. your prob. hate them. once dialed in they are great. mr. fox did his own thing and 1 minded approach to eng design and developement. the most probematic ones i had are the early .74s i have, went thru some teething probs w/those but i think i got them dialed in. latest head buttons, perry carbs. and os a5 plugs.

Any Advice would be appreciated,

I purchased an old Fox .35 stunt, I know from when I was a kid, that my Dad said that Fox motors love castor, my area shops said that they will run on 15% nitro with a synthetic oil and that it will actually work better than the castor. I'm a traditionalist and nostolgic and very sceptical of the advice. Should I be or is this acurate, good advice? Appreciate the input. Thanks, ,

Ed

A Fox .35 is made to run on 5% nitro and 29% castor oil. Fox and Powermaster both make that blend. LHS is flat wrong. Go to FOX website for more info. I have been flying FOX 35s since mid 60s.

Thanks for the reply, that is what I assumed. I knew they liked a lot of castor, I also thought they like 10% nitro. I will look into getting some fuel as it is niot availible locally. I know that HASMAT has made it difficult and expensive to ship. Appreciate your help!

Ed

You can use the fuel from the local hobby shop if you dump a bunch of castor oil in it.

will take 10 oz of castor to a gallon

Any specific type of castor, is it the same castor oil as used for ailments. Thanks,

Ed

I use the brand that SIG sells but I think Morgan fuels (Cool Power and Omega) sells castor by the quart. Your LHS should be able to get it for you.

You can buy it at the drug store but it will cost you a little more money

There is a Fox engines thread in the Glow Engines forum that is also a very good source of info.

I have a Fox .25 that I've never used, do they make a straight muffler? I don't
care for the downward slanted muffler it came with.
BTW, nice to hear from you Jeffie

At one time they had the straight, the up, and the down mufflers

All i see is the up and down now

http://www.foxmanufacturing.com/inde...roducts_id=216

Hard to believe I've never checked out Fox's site. I see they only have the up or down
mufflers. I'd like to use the engine in a Seniorita, I should be able to make it work.[sm=shades_smile.gif]

[quote]ORIGINAL: GmanBill

I have one of every motor Fox manufacturing has made.....

Gman, do you even have 1 each of all the oddball, "Mk1, mod9" variants of the .35s and .36s?
They came out with so many different versions that no one I've ever talked to [including hired help] can rattle off a complete list of every engine they ever made.

Just a little something about the glow fuel mentioned. About 1961 I got my first Fox, McCoy and Veco engines for my U-Controls and Free Flights. I could never get these engines to run?? No one else was having problems except me? Then one of the older fellows, I was 12 so he was probably 15, came over to lend me a hand and took one look at my fuel and discovered my problem. I was trying to use my Thumbledrome 1/2 A glow fuel without any luck at all. He switched me over to his 5% nitro fuel and my engines fired right up and started to run just fine. That's the day I discovered what glow fuel was made from and that it came in different mixes for different engines. Last week I found one of my McCoy and Veco engines, brought back a lot of memorys, all good ones too.

Back about 4 yrs before that I tried to crank a Pee Wee on Fox Super Fuel