Santa brought me your Mosquito but I'm having trouble finding spinners for the engines. I really don't want to drop $100. for aluminum so can you get the spinners shown on your Mosquito listed on the web-site?

$100.00?!!!

It looks like you could use any "deep" parabolic spinner, such as those for the P-51's...

Just measure the size on the engine cowl, that you want...

You could use any inexpensive plastic 6.00-9.00 black spinner.

At worst a second party spinner may not be as "deep" as the one pictured, but it may actually look better.


BTW: If you are scratching your plastic spinners with your electric starter, change the starter cone for someone else's, and keep them clean.

The ones that are provided with the starters tend to cut into the plastic (and aluminum!)....

I picked up a couple at my LHS, which were white in color and they do not even burnish the plastic. After many starts the plastic looks pristine, let alone how well it treats aluminum cones.

I picked up one bluish cone from Tower that was very gentle on the spinners, but it quickly fell apart. The white ones I picked up from my LHS have been fantastic and hold up well... but I do not know who manufactures them.

Well if you know where I can find a 4 1/2" black inexpensive spinner please speak up. Aluminum P-51 spinners that size are about $50. apiece, x 2=$100.
The only plastic spinners I could find in that size were from Airborne Models at $39.99 apiece.

What???

Am I looking at the right plane?

This one: http://www.nitroplanes.com/demotw2573en.html

That calls for .25-.32 2C or .26 to .30 4 C engines...

That would make it require a spinner no larger than say 2 1/4" to 3" if not much smaller smaller. These are relaitively small engines and could not take bigger spinners. The larger spinners have much larger shaft holes.


Do the instructions give the spinner dimensions?

If you measure the circular flat porrtion where the engine shaft would protrude, what would be the diameter of the circle?

Yes, you're looking at the right plane. The engine nacelle is 4 1/2" wide so to not look goofy I need at least 4" spinners. I'm using .46 engines so the spinner will not be an issue.

You may want to try a 3 1/4" plastic spinner.

I can't imagine that it would look too bad, and that size should still fit a .46 with the adapters.

Check out mecoa.com/cb/spinners.htm They have plastic spinners the size you need. I'm in the process of building a Mosquito. If your going with retracts try Robart 608hd they will fit with very little adjustments. Use standard servos not retract servos.

Beautiful.

that 4 1/4" spinner looks just like the one used in the photo of the model...

Thanks for the tip Euro. The 4 1/4" look good. I just hope they get them in stock soon.
I am doing retracts but I'll be using Robart pnuematics with Robostruts. I'm not sure the mechanicals will hold up too well. I'm guessing my Mossy will weigh in at 12lbs. I'm also using 2 OS .46's. I feel the need for speed.

If your building the Giant Scale Planes Mosquito then you only need 3 1/2" spinners anything else is too large. The back plate is heavy due to it's size. I drilled and balanced mine cutting the weight in half.

Nitroplanes now has the right spinners up on their web site

http://www.nitroplanes.com/spinners1.html