(Over) 300 Pounds worth of RCM's
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(Over) 300 Pounds worth of RCM's
Thought some of you would get a kick out of seeing a 300 pound pile of RCM magazines.
I am sorting them out as it's too cold to fly and even to cold to work in
the basement shop. (-12F outside AGAIN tonight!)
Anyway, that's 136 kilos for our metric friends in THE REST OF THE WORLD.
Piles are 1960's-2000's right to left. About 8' high if they
were all in one pile, at about 38 pounds per foot, do the math!
Dave
I am sorting them out as it's too cold to fly and even to cold to work in
the basement shop. (-12F outside AGAIN tonight!)
Anyway, that's 136 kilos for our metric friends in THE REST OF THE WORLD.
Piles are 1960's-2000's right to left. About 8' high if they
were all in one pile, at about 38 pounds per foot, do the math!
Dave
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And if you scanned all the construction articles and their plans, these good articles could probably reduce the pile to 2 or 3 DVDs.
And THEN you could burn the magazines for heat.
Just a hearth warming thought.
Cheeky Jim
And THEN you could burn the magazines for heat.
Just a hearth warming thought.
Cheeky Jim
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Yes, scanning and thinning are in the cards here. I'll keep the 60-70's issues
intact, 1990 and beyond will get thinned to the essentials.
That big middle pile is the 1980's, not sure which way those will go yet.
I have a list of my missing issues now. I have about 80-85% thru
2000. Thin after 2000 as I quit subscribing or buying them very often.
I wish RCM sold DVD's of the whole thing!
Dave
intact, 1990 and beyond will get thinned to the essentials.
That big middle pile is the 1980's, not sure which way those will go yet.
I have a list of my missing issues now. I have about 80-85% thru
2000. Thin after 2000 as I quit subscribing or buying them very often.
I wish RCM sold DVD's of the whole thing!
Dave
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Isn't RCM extinct? I thought only plans were available.
Somewhere along the way it turned into a great catalog.
It ALWAYS contained much great information, though. Got my first issue in 1966, subscribed once in awhile. Usually got them at my LHS, though.
George
Somewhere along the way it turned into a great catalog.
It ALWAYS contained much great information, though. Got my first issue in 1966, subscribed once in awhile. Usually got them at my LHS, though.
George
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Isn't RCM extinct? I thought only plans were available.
Somewhere along the way it turned into a great catalog.
It ALWAYS contained much great information, though. Got my first issue in 1966, subscribed once in awhile. Usually got them at my LHS, though.
George
Isn't RCM extinct? I thought only plans were available.
Somewhere along the way it turned into a great catalog.
It ALWAYS contained much great information, though. Got my first issue in 1966, subscribed once in awhile. Usually got them at my LHS, though.
George
Your piles have my piles beat I think (and you can keep the piles thank you) but if I add mine up I might make the 300 mark. My wife to this day does notunderstand why I keep them. But lord help me if I accidentally doodle on one of her monthly makeup and Kraft dressing recipe monthlies!
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ORIGINAL: MJD
My wife to this day does notunderstand why I keep them. But lord help me if I accidentally doodle on one of her monthly makeup and Kraft dressing recipe monthlies!
My wife to this day does notunderstand why I keep them. But lord help me if I accidentally doodle on one of her monthly makeup and Kraft dressing recipe monthlies!
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Yes, it was a good mag at one time, lots of plans (2-4 per issue), good articles,
reviews...
To my mind, the only ones worth getting anymore are Flying Models and our own beloved
Model Aviation.
I tried MAN again for a year, It just is not my cup of tea anymore. Suppose that's because
I don't fly gigantic 3D turbine powered ARF helicopters.
Just ordinary (little) planes with ordinary engines and motors.
My wife saw the RCM pile this morning and just said "WHERE did those come from?"
Dave
reviews...
To my mind, the only ones worth getting anymore are Flying Models and our own beloved
Model Aviation.
I tried MAN again for a year, It just is not my cup of tea anymore. Suppose that's because
I don't fly gigantic 3D turbine powered ARF helicopters.
Just ordinary (little) planes with ordinary engines and motors.
My wife saw the RCM pile this morning and just said "WHERE did those come from?"
Dave
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I always liked Chuck Cunningham's column and of course Ken Willard's anything Fred Reese's Simple Series started there if I remember right (we had his Simple Duster as a club project). I've been pulling pages and recycling the rest. No indexes or anything like organization - just 3-ring binders of stuff from all the old mags. Kinda sad seeing all those wonderful designs, ideas, etc. But kinda energizing too since I find new things to add to my "to build next" list (which we all know how that works, right?)
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Ditto fritzke: FM and MA are my favorites although I still buy a few of the others, those two are the ones I subscribe to. I also buy a British scale magazine and RC report when I can find them. My RCM collection probably only runs 2 or 3 feet long but my total collection probably runs to ten feet in length. I once knew a gentleman (now passed) whose magazine collection ran over 20 feet in length. He also still had models from the 1970 free flight nats. Why do our wives call this behavior hoarding and label it compulsive?
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I have a few hundred pounds of model airplane magazines too - from the 40´s to 90´s.
More or less stopped buying them 10 years ago and often thought I´d get rid of the magazines from the 80´s and 90´s, because it´s the vintage stuff I like best.
I´m not so sure anymore, this hobby is changing so fast. Building proper balsa airplanes with “nitroâ€, diesel, or even rubber power is a dying art. Magazines from the 80´s and 90´s are already “vintageâ€.
I´ll hang on to my magazines for as long as I have the space, they are an invaluable source of reference and inspiration.
Scanning entire issues onto DVD´s would be an alternative of course.
Thinning down magazines to keep the essentials is too difficult for me – I can´t bring myself cut out pages and can never decide which issues to keep and which to leave. The stuff that grabs you today may not be what you look for in 5 or 10 years. Decisions, decisions...
More or less stopped buying them 10 years ago and often thought I´d get rid of the magazines from the 80´s and 90´s, because it´s the vintage stuff I like best.
I´m not so sure anymore, this hobby is changing so fast. Building proper balsa airplanes with “nitroâ€, diesel, or even rubber power is a dying art. Magazines from the 80´s and 90´s are already “vintageâ€.
I´ll hang on to my magazines for as long as I have the space, they are an invaluable source of reference and inspiration.
Scanning entire issues onto DVD´s would be an alternative of course.
Thinning down magazines to keep the essentials is too difficult for me – I can´t bring myself cut out pages and can never decide which issues to keep and which to leave. The stuff that grabs you today may not be what you look for in 5 or 10 years. Decisions, decisions...
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I ripped and stripped the pile that was year 2000 and beyond, I had about 35
issues that easily fit into a 2 1/2" binder. Some of those late 80's issues are like
phone books. I had to split most 80's years into two 3" binders.
The issues form the 90's are getting stripped as well. They just take up
to much room.
Many years I have all issues, and many I am missing 1, 2 or 3.
Dave
issues that easily fit into a 2 1/2" binder. Some of those late 80's issues are like
phone books. I had to split most 80's years into two 3" binders.
The issues form the 90's are getting stripped as well. They just take up
to much room.
Many years I have all issues, and many I am missing 1, 2 or 3.
Dave
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I'm going to make you really, really sad right now, look at the price of the earliest and latest edition, find the average and then multiply by how many years then multiply by 12, try not to weap at the crazy stupid number your caculator spits out, I did that once, I got so depressed. I sat there thinking damn, I could have bought a 14MZ transmitter from futaba with that money, but I guess it's worth the memories of getting excited when the new issue came in, flipping through all those pages looking at the stuff coming out and planes being reviewed.