Kaos Rulz

Folks,

This thread was prompted after reading Balsaovercast's thread.

Who can share a story about using a RC tool for purposes OTHER than the intended purpose of the tool?

Note: Using transmitter to fly plane into ground does not count. -

ED

JIMESTES

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Master Air screw props make excellent epoxy stirrers.
later Jim

JIMESTES

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Has any one else ever used a Hot Shot as a prop de-balancer?
They are also handy wing perferators if left in your shirt pocket prior to bending over and lifting your plane.

MHawker

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Another MAS Prop use:

I used a MAS Prop to scrape Monokote residue off an airplane.

Mike

ben flyn

APC's work well to slice bread!

JIMESTES

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They also work well to shorten the wing span or fuse length of a fellow fliers plane.

Tattoo

Every one of my ball drivers as well as my #1 phillips screwdriver is bent from using them to tighten spinner nuts. I also routinely cut slots in the heads of stripped out socked head bolts so I can use a straight screwdriver in them. Also, a small portion of scrap pushrod chucked up in a drill make a PERFECT "bit" to enlarge your horns or servo arm holes to the precise size of the rod thickness you use there (if you are using z-bends)

Kaos Rulz

Tattoo,

I like the pushrod idea!

ED

JIMESTES

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Finger in place of chicken stick or starter.

BigBird1

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Just an experience....
Working at a local machiene shop....they had a home made portable fan to use in the summer to cool (well, really move hot air around...) the shop...
The fan blade was made out of a old plane prop..(full size)..the shop hot shot didn't think that it was moving enough air for his taste and took off the 110 motor and put on a 220 3hp motor...when done pluged it in...prop wound up and sailed across the shop, out the loading dock into the parking lot...moral of the story...if it works leave it alone....

Kaos Rulz

BigBird1,

I read several years ago about a guy in Alaska who wanted to break-in his new motor, but it was too cold outside. He set his plane and everything up in his garage, raised the garage door about 12 inches high and used the door to secure the plane with the engine inside the garage. The first few tanks were rich and as the engine started to break-in, he leaned the engine out until he was at full power. At that time his wife came home and raised the garage door from her car as she pulled into the driveway. He said that plane was like a wild hornet going all over the garage until it finally ended up behind a refrigerator. Whew!!!

BigBird1

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That was better than mine...
Life is full of little experirnces....

RCaeroguy

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I once used the handle of my fuel pump to break the prop on my OS 46 FX while it idled in the pits.

ben flyn

We had a guy out at our field who used his hat to kill his engine.
Didn't last long tho.

BigBird1

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I had got to the field early one day, but had forgot my hammer for driving in the metal stake for my hold down....
Looking around in my truck for something to drive the stake in I fliped the seat forward and got out my 6 ton hydraulic jack...used the flat part to drive the stake in, set it beside the flight box and started flying....
When I landed and taxied back to my sopt in the pits, one of the old timers walked over and asked me what the jack was for...I just told him it was for changing a tire...

Kaos Rulz

That's rich. I like It!

Who can match this?

ED

ChuckAuger

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Had a saying that stuck with me:

"Give people every tool in the world and they will still use a hammer"

ben flyn

Or it's kind of like the saying "He could screw-up a sledge hammer in a sand pile".

Silvanskii

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You wanna know something REALLY handy?

Many book stores sell these clip-on lights for reading in the dark. They are quite bright and happen to work IDEAL for seeing deep into large planes.

Also transmitters make handy weights when gluing things together. Especially if you put wax paper down before you place the TX on

OnTheEdge

>>I used an Six-shooter fuel pump once to suck excess transmition fluid (someone overfilled it at my local garage) out of my pickup.

>>I also regularly use my MonoKote heat gun to apply that shrickwrap window film stuff.

RCKen

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While covering a plane my covering iron fell off of the workbench and the impact killed the heating element. I wanted to finish the plane and the nearest replacement was an hour drive away at the nearest LHS. So I used my wife's travel iron. I was small sized and it worked great. Finished the plane that night and flew the next morning.

flynboy-RCU

RCKen, when I started out I was 14 and didn't have enough cash for the fancy monokote iron and heat gun, did my whole trainer with my mom's full -sized ironed. Works pretty good, but I burned myself enough to vow to never do that again.

On a similar note, an OS 46la makes a great branding iron. After my first flight on a new plane, brand new 46la, picked up the plane to carry to the pits, breeze blows engine directly onto my forearm. *@$#$ wife and coworkers thought it was hilarious (the os backwards looks almost like no, everyone wondered what the no was from >>ha ha

lawn dart

I found A very unconventional tool quite handy at flying field, A diaper!!!! I stuck my thumb thru the prop of A wide open rossi 60, took it to the bone, found A diaper in the car to try to stop the severe bleeding. Got it slowed to A drip, fired up the rossi only to stick the other thumb into the same screaming prop, did same to other thumb. Now totally pi**ed I was not going to let this ruin my sunday afternoon of flying. Imagine the looks of other club members as I stood flying with mangled, diaper wrapped thumbs, but like the rc trooper I am I flew for A couple hours until the pain got too unbearable, went to hosp. got 14 stiches, & was back out the next week to listen to the jabs at field. Probably needed diaper on my head!!!!!!!!!

cap10fan

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Thin CA makes a very handy field suture. Painless too.

JohnBuckner

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When Film covering first hit the market in the sixtys I suppose, only having worked the old way before that on my first attempt not having a sealing iron or a heat gun I managed to get the edges sealed OK with an laundry iron. The fun part was to shrink the plastic I stood outdoors behind the condenser coil exhaust of a large room air conditioner holding the part in the stream of hot air. Worked OK but to this day my film jobs are not much better.

John