Hey All,
I prefer RC 56 but I don't live close to a hobby store and I'm wondering if there is an adhesive I could get locally to glue my windows into my plane!
thanx
Dan

Weldbond, which you can get at Ace Hardware (and probably others) is very similar to RC56 (which I think has a different name now).

Thaanks Al,
Yeah Pacer used to make it now its made by Zap and they call it 560 Close enough!

I found this a Walmart and it works Great. (Beacon "Quick Grip". Yellow and blue tube). it doesn't run and is super sticky.

Never far from a hobby shop with tower hobbies. But if you have a local hobby shop any where close support them. If we don't the brick and mortar stores will be gone. That means the quick trip because the clevis broke will be gone too

I needed some nyrods, and drove down to the local hobby shop. There was no place to park within a mile, so I drove home.

I went back the next day, at a better time, and found parking. Of coarse, the LHS didn't have nyrods, nor know what they were.

Two trips to the LHS and I still had to order from Tower.

If local hobby shops want us to support them, shouldn't they have basic supplies on hand ?

From what I can tell, the local shops are getting more and more into the foam RTFs and less and less on building supplies. One of my "local" shops has bass, balsa, ply and lite ply but a very limited supply of control rods. The second is pretty much a RTR(surface) and RTF(aircraft), only a small rack of balsa and no other wood. What doesn't make much sense is both carry a fairly large amount of tools for working with wood, as well as tools to work on RTR/F stuff. Come to think about it, both carry fuel, mostly for cars/buggies but no fuel tanks to put it in. I THINK the shop owners are trying to carry just what is being bought so, if everyone is buying foam planes, why carry the materials needed to build something from plans?

We're getting off-topic but, what the heck. The most prominent hobby shop in Vegas is a Hobby Town franchise.
Nearly half of the store is dedicated to plastic models. Yet, there is almost no space for flying model kits. I've never understood how there can be so many people willing to spent the time. money, and effort to build a static model, but not enough people around to warrant a larger space for flying models. I find that...curious.

More off topic: what I find curious is the lack of interest young people are showing in anything mechanical. Not only our hobby, but I would be willing to bet that most high school boys have never changed an automobile tire or the oil in the family jalopy. If it is not internet capable, they have no interest.

HELL, I have a guy working in a manufacturing environment as an assembler that had no idea how to use a double open ended wrench. When I asked him about his mechanical knowledge(just to help me assess whether I passed him or not on a test he was taking), he told me that he didn't even know how to put gas in his car. His father covered his gas, both cost and pumping it, his insurance, all maintenance trips to the shop for his car and even let him live, rent free, in his parent's home. When I asked him what happens if he runs short of gas away from home, he told me his father would bring him his car, fill up the tank on the son's car and drive it home. My question is "How did he get a job in manufacturing if he can't even pump his own gas??????????????????????"

Parents think they are "helping" them by doing it for them. Yet, they can do nothing. When I worked for a tech school, we would get parents and students in there looking at attending the school, Parents would tell us how great the kids were, they build computers all the time, they do this and they can do that and on and on and on about how great their kids were. If you would have turned the keyboard around, had the space bar at the top, they could not figure out how to type. We were amazed that they could actually dress themselves.

Back on topic. I have been using this glue from Harbor Freight. It looks like a copy of weldbond glue. Thick, sticky, dries clear.

Buzz.

We are raising our two granddaughters, 18 and 22. Many of their male friends have come sniffing around and not one, NOT ONE, has ever asked about or shown any interest in the 20 or so planes hanging in my garage. I fear the hobby is dead when my generation is gone.

Okay, I'll admit the open-end wrench was pretty sad. But I think I've got one that's even worse. Remember those pencil boxes we had when we were in grade school? You know, they had a pencil sharpener on one end and a ruler on the top? Stick a pin in that for a moment. I was working in a sheet metal shop at one time when the owner hired this 18 year old kid for the summer. Now, keep in mind all of the measuring and cutting that is done in a metal shop. You know where I'm going with this by now, don't you? This kid did not know how to use a TAPE MEASURE!!!
Now, one may ask, "How did he ever get hired in he first place?" Well, the answer is obvious. No one ever thought to ask somebody who graduated high school if they had learned such a basic skill. The idea simply never occurred to anyone.
How's that for pathetic?
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A model airplane is never really finished. You just stop working on it.

It's more common than you would think. I've lost track of how many people of all ages come in to my area that can't read a scale or any other measuring device. Had to fail one 40 something guy due to the fact he had no clue as to what the difference was between the 1/32, 1/64,.10 and .01 scales on a standard 6" scale. Well over 90% of the people I deal with can't even do math well enough to convert an ohm of resistance into 1000 milliohms without a conversion aid card. I guess that's why so many things are made outside the US rather than inside now days

Actually, the main reason so many things are made outside the U.S. is cheap labor, not lack of expertise. Why do you think a
40" smart TV costs less now than 20" portable TV cost back in the '70's?
Electrical engineering is one thing, but I'm talking about a guy who couldn't use something as ubiquitous as a freaking ruler!