when do call it quits on rebuilding and repairing a plane ?
thanks
mark
 
   

And what do you do with the old ones?  I can't bring myself to just pitch in the trash an airplane that will still fly OK; even when I quit flyin' em I keep collecting them.  Especially combat planes, I say to myself "I can get one more fight out of that one, at least in practice."  When they get to hanging 2 and 3 deep on the walls, I grudgingly move the hangar queens out to the garage, where they'll live I guess until I die and my wife throws them out.  Not very practical. 

--Ray

And what do you do with the old ones?  I can't bring myself to just pitch in the trash an airplane that will still fly OK; even when I quit flyin' em I keep collecting them.  Especially combat planes, I say to myself "I can get one more fight out of that one, at least in practice."  When they get to hanging 2 and 3 deep on the walls, I grudgingly move the hangar queens out to the garage, where they'll live I guess until I die and my wife throws them out.  Not very practical. 

--Ray

Hi Ray,
I give mine to a beginner or someone who is going through several planes to learn the pattern. Once, I got tired of bringing a plane to a swap meet to sell, so the next year I decided the very first person to ask about it or touched it, took it home. FREE! Problem solved! Did get a E-MAIL from the person at the Swap Meet. He has recently joined a club back in his hometown area and can take off, do a wingover, one inside loop, and land without crashing. He was VERY excited the first time he flew out the whole tank of gas!
Good luck!
Wes   

Same here, when a plane gets repaired so many times it loses its luster or I am tired of it, the first person or youngster that needs it, gets it.  I think Art Winter's boy still has my old Viking.  DOC Holliday

I would rebuild it, but then, I'm not what you might call a quality guy.  Once it's thumped, it is going to look patched.  My Akromaster is almost back together and it will forever have a repaired look.  I use transparent Monokote so I can see the broken stuff inside.  Maybe someday I'll be good enough to build a really pretty plane.

to build or not to rebuild that is the question. by the way i hate outside loops.
mark

Wow, that's a pretty thorough re-kitting job.  My rule of thumb is, when it would be more work to rebuild one than to build a new one, it's time to go.  Why spend more time piecing together broken parts than it would take to cut out new ones?  Lookit all those broken ribs...I don't mean to be discouraging, but I dunno...maybe at least just build a new wing, and do the jig-saw puzzle thing on the rest.  As Ty says,"Been there, done that..."

--Ray