DC Bantam Splutters to life after almost 40 years

I was given this engine by my uncle in the mid 70's I never got it to work at the time (nobody told me NOT to use old fuel). I recently found it in a box and thought I'd try to get it running again and it works. I'll fit it to a free flight plane.

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• Davis
• Chalton
• motor
• rc
• radio
• control
• aircraft
• airplane
• aeroplane

[awstrali]

cool engine, is that lttle ones that run on high % nitro?

[wonderfulcat]

I'm running it on 16% but I'd imagine it should be on something lower!

[nitroairplane]

@wonderfulcat i am not sure but i run my cox engines on 25% nitro 25% castor oil and the rest methaol

[wonderfulcat]

@nitroairplane I now run it on 25% nitro. Little engines like a lot of it!

[LostInThePast123]

My first ever model engine, bought it around about the early seventies took a few weeks of newspaper round money to pay for it, it was used in kiel kraft models such as the Phantom mite Firefly and Radian, love hat sound brings back some good memories.

[nitroairplane]

@wonderfulcat yeah i heard of someone running their cox .010 on 50% nitro for some control line competition yes thats 50% no typo i read about it on some forum somewhere

[marleyman101]

looks good