Hi to all!! I'm wondering if someone can help me...
I recently had to clean out a late relative's garage and ran across a model engine. I havent played with gas powered airplanes since I was a kid, seriously lacking the coordination to master a Cox U-control P51 Mustang so I've been out of the gas-powered model "loop" for at least 35 years!!
This is a McCoy branded engine, with a "29" cast into the block . It has what appears to be a miniature spark plug (Champion VG3) Upon removal, the plug appears to have a coil in it's body and appears to be a glow plug rather than a spark plug -despite the porcelain insulator.
The engine appears to have remarkable compression to manual rotation and the piston visible in the exhaust port is pretty smooth without much scoring of the piston and ring.
There is a fuel line nipple on one side of the body of the "carburetor" and a flexible throttle knob and needle valve on the other side of the throat.
It's in pretty decent condition but I have not turned it over with fuel or otherwise tried to start it (primarily because I don't want to screw it up!! but, Man, oh man, it sure was tempting, tho!!)
My questions are:
What do I have?? Does it have any value or collectability?
What voltage to the plug? (If I remember those traumatic, knuckle busting, COX model days, we used 1.5 volt igniter dry cell that were about 2 inches in diameter and stood about 8 inches high or so --- with a logo of a black cat jumping through a hoop, or something like that) Haven't seen one of them for years! What would I use now-a-days ---without burning out the plug.
Are parts still available?
Thanks!! Any info/insight would be very much appreciated!