Dai Fledermaus Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 I've often wondered what most of IC stalwarts do first :- A You buy an engine, then find a model/ models to fit it. or B You build/buy a model aircraft which appeals and then look around for an engine to put in it. I imagine that most of you did A, but if that's the case how did you decide what size of engine you could make most use of? Edited By Dai Fledermaus on 27/08/2015 15:57:53 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bert baker Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Probably B for me in most cases nowadays. and it's a bonus if I already have an engine of the size needed. I probably like most started with a Forty size trainer, and kept to the Forty sized range of planes for a while. The planes got damaged frequently in my early days but normally the engine was OK, and on a tight budget it was cheaper to stay with one size engine, and second hand planes, High Boys Panic's and Flair PUPS and the old Vandals, An old Speed forty was enough back then. so then was A but now B Bert Edited By bert baker on 27/08/2015 16:30:02 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Usually B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Hopkin Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Elecy but B always Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wright Stuff Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Like the real answer to the chicken and the egg, both evolve together. Planes come and go, engines come and go, engines get swapped between planes. But what usually happens is a big game of leapfrog: Buy plane A. Buy engine for plane A. Buy plane B. Decide to put engine originally purchased for plane A into plane B, instead. Buy engine for plane A. Crash plane A. Buy plane C, to use engine that was in A. Decide to put engine from plane B into C, instead. Go to beginning! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Couldn't of put it better myself (But are you limited to just A,B & C?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Marsh Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Neither, I buy loads of engines, even though they are not needed then they go on the shelf. A while later, I buy a model, then decide what I've got and whats the best then get the engine off the shelf and bung it in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.. Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 I general buy it as a package but if a decent engine comes up new but sold on unused I will buy it on its own. I normally have a good eye as to what's on the market & interests me as a future purchase so it all generally goes hand in hand. I'm not adverse to swapping engines about in my fleet to improve a model or to realise an engine for a new plane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.. Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Posted by The Wright Stuff on 27/08/2015 17:06:26: Like the real answer to the chicken and the egg, both evolve together. Planes come and go, engines come and go, engines get swapped between planes. But what usually happens is a big game of leapfrog: Buy plane A. Buy engine for plane A. Buy plane B. Decide to put engine originally purchased for plane A into plane B, instead. Buy engine for plane A. Crash plane A. Buy plane C, to use engine that was in A. Decide to put engine from plane B into C, instead. Go to beginning! ^^^ And lots of this ^^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Geezer Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 I found a Retailer I trusted and took his advice: bought a Galaxy Models "Escort" trainer, and on their further advice I bought a second hand OS Max 25 from them too to put on the front. Brilliant combination, I've still got the motor too, still runs sweet as a nut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon H Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 I saw a really nice prop once so I bought it. I am now looking for an engine to turn it and once that is sorted I think I might have to get a plane too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Fry Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Arr, but have you seen those fancy ali spinner nuts just engines do. A gentleman is incomplete without. But on a serious note, are you lot seriously telling me that you are that organised. My record is the ownership of a brand new engine for eleven years, and when I finally installed it, it was defective out of the box. Then I was struggling to get a replacement motor to fit, nightmare. But I still live dangerously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Cotsford Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 once upon a time it was B, but as per The Wright Stuff things - evolved? Now I have a selection of engines and a selection of kits, but by the time I get around to start putting a combination together some new and entirely different airframe catches my eye which inevitably will need an engine I don't own. Or it might be an engine that catches my eye with the subsequent need for a suitable airframe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanN Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Pretty much what Dai said Back in the day it was probably A. You engine was a major investment so you thought ahead, got a good one that would handle the size/type of model you were interested in, then used it in a succession of models. In my earliest days it was a paw 1.5 that was good enough to successfully power a succession of control line models. When I returned to the hobby and started r/c it was an Irvine .46 for the same reason - it saw me through my first three or four R/C 'planes. In both cases it was because there was a huge variety of suitable model designs in those popular sizes As the years pass you accumulate quite a collection so the question becomes less relevant and almost by definition the answer turns into B - you by now have more engines than you can use, so the only reason for buying another is that you don't have one to suit the model you have in mind Edited By IanN on 27/08/2015 22:34:25 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flight1 Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Din't have that problem as I bought a glider as first rc plane, just bunged it off a cliff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken anderson. Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 probably B...but when A go's the journey you have to replace B with something suitable for A all ok until you start and acquire lots of A's and B's...then decide you need some C's and D's.......... and on and on.......then you realize you have too many of all of them.. ken anderson...ne...1.............. A B and C's dept. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff S Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Posted by Stevo on 27/08/2015 17:09:48: Couldn't of put it better myself (But are you limited to just A,B & C?) Are there enough letters in the alphabet for this metaphor to hold good? In Paul Marsh's case almost certainly not. Geoff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vecchio Austriaco Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 for me it is B - but if I crash something - it is normally A. and in this case it may not only be the engine - I look for something where I can use the complete gear. Example: crashed my Graupner Extra 300 Replaced it with Seagull Extra 300. OK, the Graupner model was unique as I completely re-covered it, but sizes are the same, all servos, engine, on board glow etc. fit in the new model. This is what I call keep the cost down VA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J V R Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 I do both, I've just bought one of the ASP160 twins & now looking for a model to put it in, whilst I'm building the TN hawk (funfighter size) for a spare SC25 engine........ Edited By J V R on 28/08/2015 12:07:31 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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