RE: Tips - Hat, Sunglasses and Whatelse?
Here is my standard kit. I bought an aluminum case from harbor freight and built a small plywood holder into it to hold everything.
1. Thick Foam-Safe CA
2. Thin Foam-Safe CA
3. Accelerator
4. 6 min Epoxy
5. Screwdriver kit with phillips, flathead, torx, ballend hex (check RadioShack, they have some nice screwdriver kits in cases)
6. X-acto knife with spare blades
7. Tiny adjustable wrench (for those pesky prop nuts)
8. Hemostats
9. Jewelers Hammer (check harbor freight, great thing for pounding out motor shafts, or banging aluminum gear back to shape.)
10. Butane soldering iron/torch (RadioShack again)
11. Silver solder (I prefer silver solder, because you'll need it for lipo repairs. Regular solder doesnt adhere very well to the delicate tabs)
12. Ball Link Pliers (for us heli pilots)
13. Wire strippers/cutters
13. 6" metal ruler
14. Jewelers files
15. Tachometer
16. Laser Thermometer
17. Pocket Scale (for weighing airplanes or parts)
18. Dial Calipers (heli pilots again)
19. Assorted Zip-ties
20. Spare velcro in sticky and regular
21. Prop Balancer
22. Spare props in assorted sizes
23. Radio instruction manual
24. Transmitter
25. Transmitter neckstrap
26. Small charger with assorted dongles (Hyperion or Multiplex work well and are small enough)
27. Lipos for the planes
28. Parts box with spare servo screws, replacement servo gears, crystals,etc.
I take this kit with me EVERY time I go fly. With this kit, I rarely ever find myself without the tools to do a job, and this also includes enough stuff so that if you had too, you could build just about any electric plane at the field.
I also always take.
A jacket
A hat
A folding chair
Gatorade
Cellphone
Sunglasses
Thats my kit. This kit stays ready all the time. It doesnt matter if Im flying in the backyard, or off to a contest. Ive got everything I need for a fun day of flying.