Ever happen to you?
03-31-2004 | 09:05 PM
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Ok time to bare my soul (so to speak). I was building my Midstar 40. I had a bottle of thin ca. I had a pin. I had a pin in the bottle of ca (to keep it fresh). I had parts in one hand. CA in the other. And a pin in my bottle. How to get the pin out. I know use my teeth, says I. I pulled the pin. Out it came, so did the ca. Result, a speachless plane builder. Ca'd my own trap shut. No more pins now.
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03-31-2004 | 10:09 PM
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LOL People get themselves into some wierd situations dont they? I just have to sit back and laugh everytime I do something dumb like I do. Oh well I guess if you have a laugh a day it's suppose to relieve the stress and make you live longer.....living longer means flying longer. Hhhhhmmmm think im gonna start watching cartoons.
04-01-2004 | 06:16 AM
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i remeber one time a kid at school needed to drill a peice of sheetmetal. probably 1/16" bit, nothing big. Needs a work surface....ok so he sets the metal on his leg (he's sitting) and proceeds to drill. well he drilled through the sheetmetal, then realized what was on the other side of the metal....his leg. I dont think he works in sheetmetal anymore.
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04-01-2004 | 09:23 AM
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Your not alone...I too have had a brain fart. One evening while assembling a new kit, I was ca'ing two pieces of balsa together while in my underwear (don't ask). You NEVER want to drip ca on your bare leg. Especially when your leg is as hairy as mine. OUCH! That was a miserably painfull ordeal. Makes getting a wax job look like fun. I have since adopted a more formal attire when building.
Your not alone...I too have had a brain fart. One evening while assembling a new kit, I was ca'ing two pieces of balsa together while in my underwear (don't ask). You NEVER want to drip ca on your bare leg. Especially when your leg is as hairy as mine. OUCH! That was a miserably painfull ordeal. Makes getting a wax job look like fun. I have since adopted a more formal attire when building.
04-01-2004 | 10:52 AM
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I still can't believe the time I heated up a pinion gear on an electric motor with a torch and then grabbed it with my bare fingers to pull it off. My thumb and finger were branded with this beautiful gear shape for weeks. Come to think of it nowadays that would probably be in fashion.
04-01-2004 | 09:41 PM
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I have one 
I was building my first plane, a Tower Trainer kit. I forget exactly how it happend, but some how I let the CA glue drip from the bottle to my arm, once I noticed it after a few seconds I jumped up and ran for the sink and turned on the water... Well up until that time I didnt know of the big part that water plays in accelerating CA glue. After alot of pain, it was finally removed, but the mark stayed...
I was building my first plane, a Tower Trainer kit. I forget exactly how it happend, but some how I let the CA glue drip from the bottle to my arm, once I noticed it after a few seconds I jumped up and ran for the sink and turned on the water... Well up until that time I didnt know of the big part that water plays in accelerating CA glue. After alot of pain, it was finally removed, but the mark stayed...
04-02-2004 | 03:10 PM
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Just last week a friend and I spent about half an hour trying to start a stubborn OS 46. We tried different glow plugs, different glow igniters, needle settings, you name it. NOTHING would work. I just happend to look down at the fuel bottle label and sure enough... ENGINE COOLENT [X(]. It was the same color as Omega.
04-02-2004 | 05:53 PM
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Haha.
I was hinging my Tiger II when... Uh-oh! CA dripped onto the wing and the newspaper below that I used to soak up the CA! Guess what... I now have a chunk of newspaper on my Tiger II wing... hmm... Too bad the pilot is not real. If he was, he could look out the canopy and read the news!
I was hinging my Tiger II when... Uh-oh! CA dripped onto the wing and the newspaper below that I used to soak up the CA! Guess what... I now have a chunk of newspaper on my Tiger II wing... hmm... Too bad the pilot is not real. If he was, he could look out the canopy and read the news!
