Hi, I am a newbie to C/A. I am building my first plane in 40 years. I have been using waxed paper over my plans. But the C/A glues the waxed paper to the wood. What is the best thing to put over the plan to protect it?

I use Wax Paper- Greal planes has something called "plans protector", i guess its like a celophane material or something.
But wax papaer has been great for me over the yrs.

Here is is trick for getting the wax paper off the parts....Hold the paper by the corner, Part hanging up side down, and heat it with the heag gun. It melts the wax and releases the part. Hold the gun about one foot away to minimise the heat transfer to the part. Then a quick stroke or two with the sanding block and your good to go.

If you use Monokote sae the backing for plan protector.

Listen to the little guy down in the ball turrent The clear backing from Monocoat is the best material for building over the plans bar none and its free. It releases better than anything and its totaly clear. Wax paper went out with rubber escapements (servos).

John

If you don't have any excess Monokote.....they sell the backing under the name of.....Great Planes Plan Protector.....gooooood stuff!

Jerry

I have used wax paper many a time. The trick is you have to buy the good stuff. The name escapes me at the moment. But it had a rite or ritz in it. The cheap stuff would allow CA through but the good stuff will not. I just use cellophane wrapper now as I don't use CA for general construction any more.

Mark Shuman

CUT RIGHT

Thanks mstroh, I pulled a gigantic brain fart trying to remenmber that last night.

Mark Shuman

I got you back brother! No Problem.

I use to just use white glue for the wings/ribs ... no issue with plans sticking. No CA used ... hehehe ... old school huh?

The Monocoat/GreatPlanes stuff is great.

JohnBuckner, what's the matter with rubber escapements? No buzzy servo motors, fun counting the number of turns on the rubber, fun replacing the broken rubbers, lots of entertainment re. which input comes next! They were real character builders -- that's how I learned to build & rebuild models .

Nothing and here is a current photo of my replica of my first successful RC ship in 1957 (Airco Aero 9). Using a Babcock mark 11 compound escapement and a Torp .09 with a pinchoff for power:

Sorry guys, but other than something I want to do "from" work right now... what the heck is an escapement in an R/C model?

Steve

Great Planes Plan Protector. It's actually a roll of monokote backing material.

Works great.

Plastic sandwich wrap is what I always used before the Plans Protector, but the plans protector roll is better for large models (wider/longer)

Don

Steve escapements are early control surface actuators before electric servos were commonplace. The clockwork like mechanism was driven by a wound up rubberband and were operated by a relay on the single channel Rx that sent a current to an electro magnet on the escapement which released the esscapement to rotate to a predetermined point of rotation. one blip and hold was full right, two blips and hold was full left, sometimes three blips and hold was up elevator or low throttle. Release caused a return to neautrals. The rudder operated from a torque rod and not a pushrod.

John

J

Interesting... Thanks John.

Steve