Originally Posted by
kwblake
WOW!!!!! 21 posts on the cost of a %$$##&* rubber band. You can afford to spend hundreds, on the Plane, Receiver, Transmitter, Servos, Fuel, or Batteries, and an engine, all of your field supplies, gas to and from your field, but some of you want to save 2 cents, on a $%#*^%! rubber band. Un-%$^&*#$ believable.............. Boy, am I going to get flamed on this one.
Actually I agree. When I flew models that used #64 rubber bands to hold the wing I bought them by the pound at an office supply store and tossed the six I would use after a day's flying. Rubber bands are cheap, models, servoes, receiver and engine not so.
If you are cheap add a couple brass threaded inserts and use Nylon bolts. A simple upgrade. If you go beyond cheap into parsimonius use a threaded hardwood block saturated with CA and a few Nylon bolts.
But rubber bands still worlk and are a viable solution. One old method from my control-line days was to store them in talc (baby powder) after use.