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after seeing BigTim's response and excelent tool reference I will recomend a soldering pen and some heat shrink tubing. Quite handy for repairs of wires, setting up fast chargers, making battery packs......

they even have butane soldering pens that will work without electricity[sm=idea.gif] nice for quick field fixes, will work at home too.

Being our clubs safety officer I will remind all to be careful with butane tools around glow fuel!!

also to look at the silly things before you reach to pick it up.....yeah I burned my fingers prettty good once[:@]

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One can never have too many clamps. These are the kind that I use and they work just fine.

http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...&I=LXK854&P=ML

Also, I use wooden clothes pins. Take them apart and reverse the spring so that the flat ends are squeezed together. These also make ideal clamps for holding flat thin stuff together. A bag of wood clothes pins is cheap!

Phil

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Another great cheap clamp are binder clips that you can pick up at office supply stores.

Ken

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When using binder clamps on soft wood, make sure you put a caul plate under it. If you don't there will be a lot of little dents to be spackled before covering.

Hogflyer

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Hey Hogflyer--what is a caul? By the way how does the Harley fly?

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Harleys don`t fly, you push them , lol

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A "CAUL" is just a piece of stiff stock placed between the clamp and the piece you are working on. It protects soft wood from clamp marks.
http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/ww_tab...131345,00.html
See note in finishing touch #3 above.

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Insanemoondoggie---buy a Harley the're the best, drive a mile and walk the rest. Sorry Hogflyer. Looked up caul and didn't see any discription like that. See I learned something new again today. RCU to a better vocabulary. In only 30 days.

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sorry about the typo

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I watch DIY a lot.:D

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Thanks goirish , I`ll remember that one , lol
bruce , we got to find you a new flying feild. To much DIY and you`ll be trying to put wings on the kitchen sink.

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It'll need a gasser engine.:D Maybe 2.

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I have seen one fly out the back of a truck just fine [X(]. The 75 mph landing didn’t do it too much good and the owner wasn’t very happy judging by the way he slammed on his brakes and almost caused a couple more accidents in the process.

I did have my brothers about 2' in the air once, but weighing in at over 650 lbs the landing was a bit harder than my old dirt bikes - didn't care for it much. I like the way my old Astro-Hog flew much better…………

Actually I prefer my vertical twin Honda's I've had since high school – they are now 34 and 35 years old and still look almost new and get much better gas mileage to boot.

Hogflyer

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Another thing I couldn't live without is a 36" metal straight edge; and an 18" one is handy, too. Either a metal yardstick or a length of aluminum "T" or "L" from a hardware store. Preferably both as it is sometimes handy to use the yardstick as a batten in slicing sheeting with a curve (like on a fuselage side).

Making butt-joints for sheeting works better if you trim the edges first with a razor-knife using the straightedge as a guide.