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- Bad engine plane combos, learnt the hard way
- Airplane storage box idea....
- painted iron-on covering
- Throttle pushrod on Magnum 52 4stroke
- Cutting straight 90deg edges to make sheets
- HELP!!! Robart 650 Retracts
- tower pro bell motor mount
- Deluxe Materials - Eze-Kote
- How do you get that smooth finished look
- Painting foam and balsa
- In-flight video of planes using a towed camera platform
- using fuel tubing as glow plug wrench
- Standbox system
- 2 Glue questions
- GP Hole Locator to mount servos
- What do you use to clearcoat?
- Workshop
- How to fly different 3D maneuvers with a RC-Plane
- Removing Robart hinge points question
- Drill press stand?
- relocating hinge slots
- cheap polot figures
- Monokote over Monokote
- Engine Test Stand
- Ultracote question/technique
- Help....Warped elevator
- What Glue for EPP Foam?
- Nitrate dope
- They don't fly, but I am sure happy with them!!!
- Which is lightest film?? eg UMX, Vapor? Microlite, AeroLITE, SOLITE, UltraCoat?
- LiFe battery info/FYI
- Needing that long drill bit
- Glasing question
- Build that round wing tip as a component
- Does iron-on fabric have a "grain"??
- Tip on building a wing.
- Ailerons when glassing a wing?
- Balancing a 26" 3 Blade CF Mejzlik Prop
- Remove sticker adhesive from ultracote ???
- ultrakote to shiny
- Electric Retracts
- Eliminating gas spills in the SUV
- Help! Sanded a pinhole in my Kovall, gotta start over
- What type of covering ?
- Integrated Timer ( INTEG-T) in Spektrum Dx7?
- TiteBond
- OS 91FS Help!
- Another L/E Sheeting Idea
- Why me and why now?
- Why me and why now?
- Prepping for painting
- Home made Stooge?
- Hangering the plane
- Sullivan smoke pump fix
- Fuel proof coating for pilot figure
- How to fiberglass conical shapes
- Leading edge sheeting
- How to stop worrying about hinge failure
- Softener salt and sheeting wing cores?????
- What do you use to mark balsa?
- Printing water transfer decals at home
- anyone put Ultracote over Ultracote.
- Does Giving away planes Have a Reward?
- Jato slipper clutch
- Music in videos? WHY?
- Calculating counterbalance weight
- Plywood holes edge distance
- Balanced props
- retracts
- Will Duplicolor from Auto parts store work on Solartex?
- CA from Walmart
- Camera mounting on RC plane made easy
- P 38 Help 1st Twin
- Fabricating rigid and lightweight push rods
- cutting cowl
- Easy lines & rivets
- How to slow down plane while landing?
- Ultracote and Glass
- 4-40 pushrods threaded down to 2-56
- How flat should a workbench be?
- What Kind of Foam
- nitrate dope with fiberglass ?
- WIB ball bearings?
- Coat the inside of the plane with thinned epoxy?
- LED harness
- Covering A Painted surface
- big starter swith between 12 and 24 volt
- Adding colored art to monokote?
- Epoxy palette
- Need plans for wing jig please.
- Shopmade bellcrank
- Vess balance ring
- Popsicle stick offcuts make good epoxy stir sticks
- Sources of bulk parts and supplies
- Keep fuel and oil out of your plane during engine burn in
- Low throttle glow plug heater.
- Removing monokote trim from monokote
- A couple of sanding tips
- Visual ruler - Imperial (64ths) to Metric (0.5 mm)
- how to get old fuel film off monokote?
- Personalizing Your ARF Movable Pilot Head
- mosquito pump spray!!
- How do you sand the leading edge of the elevator?
- Browser Access of Multiple Forums 1 Click
- Varnish ion muffler and exahust pipe
- Intake vale stuck
- Making a fiberglass cowl 2 piece?
- Wing bolt tool
- Power Planer
- A clever way to store your airplanes!
- sheeting foam with gorilla glue
- Put a chuck on your cordless screwdriver!
- Great Planes Hole Center Locater - NEW way to use it!
- Flyzone Sensei Cowling won't come off
- MonoKote will not shrink
- covering snafu
- Help, engine turned black after cleaning
- Question on Hobby Poxy catalysts & paint
- Special Tools Any Others Bought or Made?
- Bollaero major 4.4 engine plans
- Making scale hings
- Econokote on foam?
- Polyurethane glue
- Transporting planes in a truck
- Keil Kraft Super60
- foam airplane construction
- Things I Learned Prepping SSE for Covering
- Need help with finishing a model...
- prop ballancing tool
- I GOOFED...
- Low and Fast Made Easy
- Dichromate Dip Removal
- LANDING LIGHTS
- Applying Ultracote Trim
- How to remove scratches on clear vacumm formed part?
- Repairing a snapped vertical fin???
- Repairing cracks in fiberglas cowls.
- sanding sealer before covering
- To Gasket or not to Gasket, that is the question!..
- Sanding Delicate Parts
- ideas for sealing covering seams
- leading edge sheeting?
- Futaba 9C Programming
- Roto Motor
- Painting turbines
- Midwest Push Pins Not a Bargain
- WARNING! THIS IS GRAPHIC! Tip: Be careful around a Prop!
- Sig butyrate dope- does it exist?
- Lights
- Pull Pull Empenage
- APC Prop Painting
- Cricket Cutter for Gasket Making
- Machine gun barrels
- Paint blister repair? Is it possible?
- source od square drilled magnets
- Dents and dings from building
- Avoiding Cowl Screw Hole Chips
- Suggestions to clean fabric covering?
- regarding a Baffle
- Dope and Fabric Finish
- Help! Warped spar
- tuning engines
- trying to adjust flaps
- EZ Connector for Throttle
- Glassing balsa mid-wing
- How to EPP and Spackle and Sand?
- Making Room In Your Shop - Monokote Rolls
- Best type of foam for wing cores?
- How do you connect wire to foam cutting bow?
- Pre-flight and log book
- Landing procedure
- OK I'm an idiot!
- LED landing lite tip
- Getting covering to stick to covering
- Anyone tried this before? Remote glowplug?
- Large 1 piece wing to 2 piece wing
- ARF Covering (ultracote) woes
- fuel lid holder.
- 72 FM repair
- Drill Press Lathe (a bit of a review)
- Fokker DVIII cabanes and Landing gear
- Smoothing dry 3/4oz Fiberglass
- $12.88 and a few hours!!!!
- Home made cheap plane locator needed.
- Spray Paint for Foam Planes
- large paper clips
- servo mounting
- wall storage rack
- cessna 182 gold edition kit,question please
- heating a rod
- Will Butyrate Dope work for Silkspan?
- Smoke mufffler
- SOS. How to make an adjustment of valves in a four-stroke
- control horns
- Sunday afternoon plane balancer build
- Flight box, lets see your ideas...
- Need advise Please
- throttle servo for Nitroplanes Yak54
- Sanding and finishing EPP Foam?
- parallel pushrod connector?
- pvc wing rack pic and plans
- pvc wing rack pic and plans
- DIY propeller?
- AIRBRUSH please help.
- blind nut won't bite into wood
- Balancing a large model airplane
- rustolium fuel proofing
- Setting a throttle curve on a lower end radio
- A new-found tool(s)
- Airbrush question, Need help finding one.. Now help w compressors
- latex paint
- Maiden Flight Routine?
- CMP YAK 140
- 5% nitro fuel
- Step Van Interior Layout....HELP
- Covering help needed for PT-19
- Tip: Buy a Drill Press
- new covering
- Paint to use
- Foam wing tunnel bore tool
- holes or no holes
- Need tips on how to unfreeze a carb slide?
- Patterns from prints made easy
- fuse skin
- looking for a how to article curtis electric 4 blade prop
- filling coverall or poly dress lining.
- Panel Overhaul for a Tiger 2
- Acrylic paint
- Depron - How to ...?
- use for SKOAL cans
- Adjustable Height Work Table
- ESM T-28 Recomended Engine Size
- Paint Questions
- dynaflite fly baby engine recomendations
- Sanding edges
- do's and don'ts of filming an rc plane or heli
- Spray Painting
- Removing expoxy from foam ?
- sealing and finishing foam.
- Help removing water slide decals
- Klass Kote Epoxy paint?
- Locked up parts?
- CMPRO super chipmunk 120
- glow plug tool and wheel nut tool
- Fiberglassing an already hinged wing
- Any tips on making a solid balsa rudder and elevator
- True Turn nuts and jams
- smashed plans, any tips?
- joining alu tube?
- Using Multi Tool For Cutting Hinge Slots