Cox Golden Bee .049 Engine

This Cox Golden Bee .049 was purchased on eBay for around $30. It was very dirty, but disassembling it and soaking it overnight in a bath of Evapo-Rust worked a miracle on it. The shiny metal parts were buffed using a Dremel MotoTool.

Here is a photo of how it looks disassembled - after cleaning. The cylinder could stand to be re-anodized with a deep black, but that can come later. For now, it is sitting as a display model, but eventually it will be installed in a display model of the Carl Goldberg 1/2A Skylane.These gems are no longer produced, and getting hold of one - especially with the original package - is costly if you shop on eBay. They regularly sell for $100 or more.

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Articles About Engines and Motors for Model Airplanes, Boats, and Cars:

• AT's Post-War Motor Roundup - September 1949 Air Trails
• Motor of the Month: K&B Torpedo .049 Engine - November 1952 Air Trails
• Mills "Brothers" - ½   Diesel Engines from England - January 1952 Air Trails
• World's Smallest Mass-Produced Glow Plug Engine Unveiled by Cox - May 1961 American Modeler
• Cameron .09 Marine Engine - July 1954 Air Trails
• Electromotive Power Plants - March 1974 American Aircraft Modeler
• Netzeband Reports on the Aero 35 Horizontal Piston Engine - October 1963 American Modeler
• Wankel Engine Models - July-August 1963 American Modeler
• Multi-Cylinder Engines - March 1967 American Modeler
• Air Progress: The Jet Engine - July 1951 Air Trails
• 50-HT Hopped-Up Jetex - March-April 1963 American Modeler
• Allyn .049 Sky Fury Engine Review - May 1954 Model Airplane News
• CO2 Power is Coming Back - April 1969 American Aircraft Modeler
• Cordless Electric Flight Motors - July 1973 American Aircraft Modeler
• Cox Babe Bee .049 Engine - Operation & Troubleshooting Guide
• Babe Bee: New Member of the Cox Family - April 1957 American Modeler
• Cox Golden Bee .049 Engine - Photo of disassembled engine
• Cox Thimble Drone PeeWee .020 Engine - Engine photo & operation sheet
• Junior 451 / DP-03 CO2 Model Airplane Motor - Photos, user's guide, and video of it running
• Designing a Ducted Fan - February 1971 American Aircraft Modeler
• Ducted Fans!  --  Scale-Like R/C Planes - March 1962 American Modeler
• Dyna-Jet Engine - June 1957 American Modeler
• Engine Idling Secrets (Part 1) | (Part 2)

      November & December 1962 American Modeler

• Engine Roundup - 1955 Air Trails Annual Edition
• Eureka Importing Company "Tiger Jet" Ad - July 1957 American Modeler
• Fox 15 C/L Engine - Photo of my 1st engine bigger than a Cox .049
• Fox 35 C/L Stunt Engine - Photo of my next C/L engine,
• Fox 40 R/C Advertisement - April 1962 American Modeler
• Gentlemen, Start Your Engines! - August 1969 American Aircraft Modeler
• Global Engine Review - 1963 Annual Edition American Modeler
• Hot Engines! - January/February 1963 American Modeler Article
• How Bill Wisniewski Reworks His Engines - June 1957 American Modeler
• How to Select the Proper Glow Plug ... and Why - 1963 Annual Edition American Modeler
• Inside the Two-Cycle Engine - February 1968 American Aircraft Modeler
• Iron Curtain Engines - Da? Nyet? - August 1962 American Modeler
• Jetex Jet Engine Ad - May 1954 Model Airplane News
• Jetex Motors & Fuel Pellets - Photos of my collection of motors
• Johnson Engines Continue on Improvement Program - February 1957 American Modeler
• Powerplant Revue: Hi's Radio Mill Proves Potent Yet Docile .35 - February 1962 American Modeler
• McCoy .35 Red Head C/L Engine - Photos of my engine and the user's sheet
• Model Motor Museums (Part 1) | (Part 2)

      November & December 1959 American Modeler

• Netzeband Reports on a Horizontal Piston Engine

       September/October 1963 American Modeler

• Norvell .15BB Revlite C/L Engine - Photos of my engine
• O.S. 25 LA Engine - Photos of my engine
• Outboard Model Boat Motors - Advertisements of many different outboards
• Rubber Motor Testing - August 1968 American Aircraft Modeler
• There's a Wankel in Your Future - June 1968 American Aircraft Modeler
• Thimble-Drome Piper Super Cub 105 - October 1957 American Modeler
• The Visible Wasp Airplane and V-8 Automobile Engines - Advertisements
• The Wright Cyclone 9 Radial Aircraft Engine - by Monogram