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YOUR ADDICTED WHEN... - 6/7/2002 7:19:27 PM   
TOYMAKER



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Status: offline 		You go in to Ace Hardware and you look thru every bin in the hardware section... for something that MIGHT work on a FUTURE project.

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Zip locks. - 6/7/2002 7:26:55 PM   
ninefingers



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Status: offline 		You carry home used zip lock bags from work.

When you are in the lunch room at work and see someone throw a zip lock bag away, you think "what a waste, I could wrap a receiver in that bag, or use it for something!"

No I dont dig thru the trash to retreive it, .....yet

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You might be addicted to R/C if: - 6/7/2002 8:00:01 PM   
Eaglewatch



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Status: offline 		You're addicted when . . .

You toss out a couple of old electric typewriters in the trash, and a fellow modeler rides by and asks " Did you strip out the springs, rods, & hardware before you tossed them?"
Later, the light bulb in your mind starts to glow (dimly), and you quickly dash out in the pouring rain to retrive these hardware treasures, eagerly anticipating all the $$$ you'll save by not having to go to the hobby shop (at least for one day).
Been there . . .

(P.S. IBM Selectrics have LOTS of hardware!)
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You might be addicted to R/C if: - 6/7/2002 11:00:50 PM   
bear750


 

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Status: offline 		I do the same with blenders, can openers, fans, etc... that were made in the metric countries. Tons of hardware for the time it takes to (not so carefully) disassemble.

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You might be addicted to R/C if: - 6/7/2002 11:33:09 PM   
Tattoo



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Status: offline 		You live in an apartment and the master bedroom has 14 equipped airplanes hanging in and the small bedroom has 5 more ready to fly hanging on the walls. You have 6 more on the building table (in the master bedroom) and 5 kits in the living room unopened. Your living room has 9 framed pictures and they are all airplanes. You have two computers and almost every bookmark on both of them is an R/C site. There is so much building materials in your apartment (master bedroom full) that it is behind and under the bed (which is in the spare bedroom). You even put up with all the crap from all your work buddies for buying a brand new station wagon, even though you have no kids. And in following the last couple posts...when you see a bike on a junk pile, you stop and cut out all the spokes for pushrods

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Re: YOUR ADDICTED WHEN... - 6/7/2002 11:50:49 PM   
hawkpilot



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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by TOYMAKER
You go in to Ace Hardware and you look thru every bin in the hardware section... for something that MIGHT work on a FUTURE project. [/QUOTE]

I do this at every store I go to...even the grocery store!!

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You might be addicted to R/C if: - 6/8/2002 12:02:03 AM   
Billy Hell


 

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Status: offline 		All of us gathering so close to one thread could make it easy for the "man" to find us and round us all up. Can you imagine a nuthouse full people like us? It would be stripped bare!

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You might be addicted to R/C if: - 6/8/2002 12:07:59 AM   
hawkpilot



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Status: offline 		Yeh the bed springs could possibly be used for landing gear if heated and bent...lol

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You might be addicted to R/C if: - 6/8/2002 12:18:26 AM   
Billy Hell


 

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Status: offline 		You could use the straight jacket for a covering material.

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You might be addicted to R/C if: - 6/8/2002 12:26:32 AM   
hawkpilot



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Status: offline 		yeh and the straps off of it could make a neck strap for your radio!

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You might be addicted to R/C if: - 6/8/2002 9:58:31 AM   
Eaglewatch



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Status: offline 		. . . and just imagine what we could do with some of the medical tools and devices . . . latex glove bladder tanks, tongue depressor mixing sticks / hardwood braces, hemostat fuel clamps, syringe epoxy injectors, blood pressure cuffs (as fuselage clamps), tailwheels from medical carts, oxygen tanks to spool up our turbines. . . not to forget those spiffy white labcoats to disguise ourselves for outings to the hobby shop for the "fixes" we all crave . . .

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You might be addicted to R/C if: - 6/8/2002 10:07:55 AM   
hawkpilot



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Status: offline 		Dude, those are some great ideas!!!!!!!!!! Can probably make some kind of glue out of the food.

You really know your addicted to rc if you are already planning what to do with psych ward equiptment, in case you gat admitted for the addiction!!!

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You might be addicted to R/C if: - 6/8/2002 11:09:40 PM   
Billy Hell


 

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Status: offline 		I was thinking our drool (from non-stop rc thinking) would be thick enough to hold our birds together in the looney bin!

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You might be addicted to R/C if: - 6/9/2002 12:49:43 AM   
Eaglewatch



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Status: offline 		Aw, Billy, my secret is out . . . I was going to market it and become the next Bill Gates.

But you know, if we mixed it with the residue from scuffing our shoes all day and night on the floors of the ward, we might make some gap-filling drool-glue . . .

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You might be addicted to R/C if: - 6/9/2002 5:27:40 AM   
hawkpilot



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Status: offline 		Ok that will work for the CA, and we will use the mashed potatos for epoxy!

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You might be addicted to R/C if: - 6/10/2002 10:41:13 PM   
stevezero



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Status: offline 		OK, if ya used latex gloves for fuel tanks, how many clunks would you need and where would ya put them all?

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You might be addicted to R/C if: - 6/10/2002 10:54:56 PM   
MinnFlyer



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Status: offline 		You wouldn't NEED a clunk, the latex glove will just contract!

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