sir crashallot

Right im building a new workshop attached to my house, now im just wondering what tools you guys on here would consider a must for our hobby,

Iv already been and bought a nice electric Draper 16inh fretsaw, soldering iron, blow torch for metal work, and a drill and a set of knifes, but what other tools do you think i should see about investing into,

Jetdesign

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A dremel or other similar rotary tool, and a good accessory kit, is a must-have.

sir crashallot

yeah i have been checking one out on the bay, complete with all cutting disks and stones and allsorts with it. not got it yet but going to get it

Ram Jet

What the heyball is a Draper fretsaw? Let's see:

- a Mitutoyo dial vernier caliper
- a builder's trinagle/square
- a Badger Air Brush
- a small air compressor
- a piece of acoustic ceiling tile
- a pair of Vice grips
- a set of jewlers files
- a jewlers coping saw
- jewlers screwdriver set
- ball drivers SAE and metric
- a set of telescoping gages
- a "yard stick" in metric and inches
- a small one foot stainless steel rule
- aluminum sanding bar with stick on sand paper
- wet/dry sand paper 240, 320, 400, 600, 1200, 1500 grit
- a small ignition points file
- a fine machienist's ******* file
- large and small Fiskars sissors
- a sharp pocket knife
- knife sharpener
- cordless Dremel rotary tool
- Exacto knife set
- Stanly wood plane with repaceable blades
- a small gear puller
- wire stripper
- soldering gun, No-Corrode soldering paste and Stay brite solder
- diagonal cutter
- needle nose pliers
- 1/4" metric and inch sockets
- combination ignition wrench set
- single edge razor blades
- mechanical drawing instruments, compass, dividers
- pieces of cardboard for template, (96oz. Bisquick and family size Triscuit)
- card stock
- plastic cutting board
- French curve
- Whole lot of lead pencils and sharpener
- Fine and regular Sharpies - different colors too
- glow plug socket nutdriver (for glow plug) 8mm Craftsman
- dial indicator and stand
- 6 1/2' fisherman's pliers
- rubber bands, large and small
- no dose
- Vicodin
- coffee maker
- microwave oven
- Drill press
- table saw
- compound miter saw
- Radial arm saw (optional)
- numbered drills from itty bitty to 1/2 inch
-"T" pins
- sewing needles
- Hobbico balsa lite
- 5 min. and one hour epoxy
- denatured alcohol
- lacquer thinner
- acetone
- G96 Gun Treatment
- reading glasses or magnifying glass
- a Playboy or Hustler calander
- picture of Kelly La Brock or Janet Jackson
- sturdy padlock for the door
- cot
- sleeping bag
- small componet HiFi
- TV
- VCR
- no telephone
- computer, fax, copier, scanner, printer
- AC power generator
- comfy chair
- case of Moosehead, Molson's Golden, Jim Beam black
- fridge
- Mossberg 500A shotgun and 00 buckshot (Slugs?)
- CG locator
- prop balancer
- clock (optional) see calander
- work bench - you figure it out or PM me
- air conditioner
- space heater
- lots of Lipton cup-a-soups
- 409
- paper towels
- cotton rags
- Top Flite covering iron w/mit (you don't need a heat gun)
- alarm clock (optional)
- a hydro kenetic transducer
- blood pressure machine
- 3M bandaides
- a copy of Zen and the single model builder
- cordless electric drill motor

Get all that together and meet with me at 900 hours on 23 March 2009 for inspection.

Bill[sm=spinnyeyes.gif]

P.S; You can have this. Print it on glossy card stock, lamination is recommended but optional.

sir crashallot

jeeze i need a bank loan for that lot.

as for the draper fretsaw i hope the picture answers your question that cost me all of 30 GB pounds
i have allot of bits and bobs like a nice big vice and so forth and a nice vernier and feeler gauges and stuff. steel rulers and so on.
best part is i had a good 3 quarters of that list a few years back but due to giving up the hobby i lost it all. but now im geting back into it soooo it says it all.

Ram Jet

Well my friend, I too took a hike from this hobby for about 45 years. I went back to my roots (see attached). A divorce did my tool collection in but, darn it, I'm back in the frey. (see attached - my roots) A big thanks to my RCU members/friends who have forgotten more than I'll ever know about this hobby. "Never have so many owed so much to so few." W. Churchhill Nice to meet you mate. Please stay in touch from across the pond.

Cheers,
Bill

sir crashallot

i will stay in touch buddy, im on here every night and somtimes during the day. unfotunatly this hobby is just one of those you cant stay away from for long, once ur bitten by it ur infected and no matter how many times you break away from it we always seem to crawl back

Ram Jet

God bless. I'm here. "We all need someone we can bleed on" Rolling Stones.

Bill

yel914

I'd consider a magnetic building board. It makes life so much easier. Ram Jet made a very complete list, but I have to say I'm confused about that Mossberg 500A. I have one and have not used it in model building as yet. Is it used to make lightening holes?

BountyHunter51

I've found that the Mossburg is a great 'go to' tool for those finiky projects that you run out of patience with
It's also handy for those times that you bring home a plane that is beyond repair and requires a 'cerimonial' end of its service. But that's just a thought Cheers! BH

sir crashallot

sounds like it could be fun, its a shame theres no where in here i can post a thread of the workshop im building it would be great to have a little thread section for all those making workshops, be ideal too for ihints advice and a good learning curve for beginers to avoid them geting batterd by there wife for geting cyno all over ther new table and so forth,

Ram Jet

You are funny. A fellow member found an old fuel engine in a field recently that apparently was blown out of the sky with a shotgun. He included pictures. I think he's running it today. "Anyone who is amazed at anything a human being does is a damn fool."

Bill

draftman1

a small bandsaw, disk/belt sander combo, my 410 single shot is better on the smaller models LOL

Ram Jet

Oh, absolutely, a band saw. Shoot, I forgot that. Now if I could stay off that darn Auctionland website I could have the $89.00 for the one I saw recently. "I see said the blind carpenter as he picked up his hammer and saw."

Bill

draftman1

I was fortunate with the woodworking stuff. I used to build cabinets and now I dont. so I have a 24 x 32 shop that is stricktly for planes. I have all of the tools still. I just trying to get it cleaned out and organized. I let it go to pot before I started back in R/C

sir crashallot

if it wasnt for me being denied planning permision for the shop iv just had to sell my shop would have been 22x13 which would be great, now im stuck with a tiny little box room out back and a bit of a room built on,[]

Ram Jet

Don't feel bad mate. I'm stuck with a bedroom I'm converting (12' x 15'). We'll just have to make the most of a small space. We can do it the Japanese do it. We aren't building the Spruce Goose you know.

Keep on Chooglin'.

Bill

khodges

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An anvil, or piece of railroad rail about a foot long, is handy to have. Add a 2 lb hammer and you have a perfect system to make those stubborn parts fit perfectly

Tha anvil is handy. Th curved nose is useful for shaping metal parts, the top great for seating blind nuts, etc., anything where you need to pound on something.

sir crashallot

the spruce goose that is some big monster, howard hughes he designed another plane that looked like the p38 didnt what was it called as im intrested on building a replica of it as i havent heard or seen a kit of it

sir crashallot

haha 2lb hammer, iv just knocked a wall down with a 12lb hammer, i have them ranging from little toffee hammers to big monsters

Ram Jet

Hey buddy, I'm not the "Prince of Organization" either. But, as my Irish great grand mother would say "It's not what ya were me boy, it's what ya are taday."

Let's get our stuff together - we might build better planes. I've got it, put on a CD of Sly and the Family Stone and crank it up. "Iwanttothankyouforlettinmebemyselftoday."

Bill

Bill

Ram Jet

Dude! You must be a student of the "Bigger Hammer" school of handymen. Put your 21 pounder down and get really "hammered" on some Jim Beam Black. Crank up your HiFi while you're at it. Just don't attempt to build under the influence.[sm=spinnyeyes.gif]

Bill

Bill

Ram Jet

Playing the "Kink's Kronikles" now. If you don't have the CD you MUST get it.

Bill

Ram Jet

Check this out.

The Huges H-1 racer and another pretty plane the Ryan STA. I want pictures of your completed project and if your good I might commission you to build me one. Get to work.

Bill

khodges

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That was the XF-11, almost killed him on the 1st test flight.