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Offline Frank Sheridan

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Cheap tool trick
« on: August 12, 2009, 08:50:21 PM »
It's not often that I luck out and get a free tool, even if it is tech at its lowest. This is a formed cardboard corner protector from a shipping stack of plywood, available at most construction site dumpsters. I decided to line it with strip sandpaper and use it to shape a log of balsa into a straight leading edge on a Sig Banshee. The self adhesive paper pushes right into the radius of the cardboard, which by the way is straight and true because of the stiffness of the laminated paper it is formed from. This edge protector was simply lain on the bench and the wing is driven in long back and forth strokes, taking about five minutes of effort for a shaped LE.

Offline john e. holliday

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Re: Cheap tool trick
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2009, 08:46:16 AM »
Another of the "Why didn't I think of that" ideas.  Thanks,  DOC Holliday
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Offline Bill Little

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Re: Cheap tool trick
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2009, 10:30:23 AM »
Thanks, Frank!  We need more tips like this. y1

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Offline Bill Heher

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Re: Cheap tool trick
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2009, 11:00:12 PM »
I love it!  One trick of the trade for making someones trash your latest treasure. I have a Twister under construction - stashed in Phoenix waiting for me to get back there. I was looking at ther leading edge and thinking- the housekeeper is going to love this. I will be using this "Cool Tool" with the end over a wastebasket, no big pile of shavings this time.
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Offline Ward Van Duzer

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Re: Cheap tool trick
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2009, 01:33:59 PM »
And I've been looking at those things for years knowing there is some use for those things!

Good move!


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