samparfitt

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Yep, Lionel and MTH upstairs; 33'X47' HO in the basement (with more lionel on the floor under the HO layout).
OH, and don't forget spare bedrooms: more good space to hang planes!

jpitt57488

I saw these:

http://www.atlantahobby.com/shopexd.asp?id=435

However, I just went to the Ace Hardware and picked up a 4 ft length of steel rod and some nylon tube and bent my own. The cost is less than $5 per hanger. I went with 3/16 diameter metal which was plenty strong for my planes (nothing more than 30 oz or so). It was easy enough to bend. The nice thing is you don't have to be too precise...if you don't get it bent even then it just looks like the plane is banking while it hangs there. I like to make sure to get plenty of angle so that the plane is nosed down slightly.

The nice thing about this type of hanger is it is really easy to load/unload the plane when you are ready to go fly. You can do it with one hand.

Huntster

Samparfitt......You have the BEST storage... I am gonna have to look for a Piano for my 1/4 scale now... I just stand all my birds in the garage in the corner on their spinners on rags.

PLANE JIM

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You must be single or let me rephrase this-I would be dead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and the airplane would have taken a final flight.

kmtranmd

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My toy garage has 12' ceiling, and I use the Home Depot adjustable racks with 18" shelving arms wrapped with pipe insulation. 18" arms are spendy but you need the width for the big bird fuselages. The racks come in 5' lengths and I mount them 32" apart. This allows for hanging planes from 60size up to GS 85" warbirds, jets, 3d planes of all shapes and lengths. I'm able to hang over 20 of them on the walls easily. My only problem is the wife's S500 parks in it, so ceiling mount is not an option. She will have hissy fit if she sees oil/gas dripping on it or if something slips and falls on her S500. I would be nervous retrieving a 20 lb bird from the 12' ceiling anyway.

Harley Condra

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I use these bicycle hoists. They are rated at 100 lbs., so they have a large safety margin. The hoist rope is snubbed off on a cleat on the garage wall.
The one inch polypropylene strapping is available at JoAnne fabric stores. Cost of each hoist, complete with strapping is about $13.00.
The hoists are available at Harbor Freight for $9.95, but I found some at Big Lots for $4.00 each.

maxs

hi
ok i order 3 of the hangers from harbor freight now my question is my garage is not heated if i hang my planes in there for the winter is the freezing cold going to hurt them thanks max

Vahn

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I was very inspired by Harley's set up, so I did something very similar using the suggested Bicycle mounts but with some slightly different hardware.

This is a 3 foot piece of 3/4 particle board with 2 inch wood screws to hold it to one of the few joists in the garage. I am using seperate pulley's (I didn't want to cut down the provided hardware in case I ever mount an actual bike with it instead).

I was unable to find the strapping at Jo-Anns that Harley used, so this just some pretty standard tie-downs. Nothing fancy.

Thanks to Harley for the inspiration, advice, and confidence to go ahead and try this project. Let's just say I am not very handy. At all.

Quikturn

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Noflaps, I don't mean to change the subject but who makes that A4 Skyhawk kit. That looks very cool!

chevypower1930

Hey everyone pretty amazing airplane storage methods with the pullys.. haha, here's mine....

I picked up these big hooks that I guess you'd usually hang extension cords and stuff like that on, at home depot for practically nothing.. a few bucks for them all. for all my parkzone planes I just hung them on the horizontal stabilizer straight on the metal rods since they're real light planes... I have my big Miss America P51 on my work bench.. and for my L4 Piper Cub I put some silicon tubing on the rods and hung it from the horizontal stabilizer... I always empty my fuel tank and start up the engine until it burns all the gas off before I hang a glow plane nose down.. just like being safe with these engines. I then got 4 bigger rod things and put a wing on each pair of them from my P51 and my Cub, all the parkzone wings stay on.. my Slo-V is just sittin on the table as well.... along with my Transmitters, Batteries, Chargers, etc....

So a pretty good way to store 6 airplanes and doesn't take up much more space than just the one wall... and my little parkzone vapors sittin in the family room haha.

Heres some pictures....

mogman

I don't have any photo's, but I use an old "cat condo" you know, a post with 3,4,or 5 shelves on it for the cats to lie on. I put fuselages on the shelves and as they are spaced at different heights around the post it works great.
"cat people" will know what I mean[sm=idea.gif]

Cheers, Dave.

Ram Jet

Check the "Buy an Sell" section here and look for "Hang-A-Plane".

Bill

NoFlaps

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Chevypower93,
Who makes that lil' Miss America P-51 you have ?
Is that a Hyperion ARF ?

Anyoldnick

Unless you are planning on keeping a garage of Hangar Queens hanging around this shouldn't be an issue. Get out there and fly those planes. An alternate method is after run oil.

A consideration of ANY storage method is that the engine should be in a position that any excess oil and/or fuel leakage from the hoses is either caught or the fuse is in a position where it won't leak.

I constructed a carrier for my planes. The top part of the cradle holds the fuse and a notch in the lower part hold the wing. It is simply made from some particle board and a couple of dowel rods to hold it together. To hang this all in the garage Lowes has some metal Z shaped brackets that I mount to the wall. The top dowel slides between the wall and the Z bracket. To err on the side of caution I also mounted a 2x4 so that the carriers actually sit on the 2x4. The Z bracket just keeps the carrier from falling.

When I am ready to go to the field I slide the carrier off the wall and into the back of the truck. The truck holds 2 carriers and planes neatly and if the tails are toward the cab no hold downs are necessary. Some bungee cords will hold them down if necessary.

No pictures for now but may get some soon.

chevypower1930

Almost 2 years late hahah but it's a Hangar 9 Miss America .60 size... anyways this will be a BUMP to an awesome thread!

KaP2011

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My wife told me today that I had to make room in the garage for her car so all the planes had to go back into the basement. I thought to myself, "maybe not".

Here's what i came up with, cost $22 at home depot and took about an hour.

edbu1

Here's my wing and fuselage storage rack. Adjustable wooden dowels for rearraagements as needed. 2x4x8 verticals with storage on both side.

maukaonyx

Combo of shelving brackets with pipe insulation on them for fuses and wings, and then some planes hanging on a pulley/rope system, and a couple sitting on work benches. The gassers sit on the ground next to cars unfortunately. Jon


OOPS the pics did not attach...see next post!

maukaonyx

Combo of some hanging with the rope and pulley system, some on shelving brackets sheathed with pipe insulation, some on workbenches, and some on the floor next to cars (UG!) Jon

KaP2011

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I use the shelf bracket method in my workshop. The PVC assembly I use has to be movable so it just sits in the garage with the planes I fly the most. I have in the past used the 2X4 w/dowls but that proved to be too "fixed", I was always running into a wing or something. I actually snaped a wing in half one time.

acdii

I found some T hangers at Menards, 4 of them cost $26. I hung 3 planes on them. Others I use screws and string to hang them.

chadxp1

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from the looks of your ceiling you probably did not have a hard time finding a stud. haha.