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Building Tips and technical articles. => Building techniques => Topic started by: mark eisenhut on January 10, 2007, 10:14:49 PM
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when do call it quits on rebuilding and repairing a plane ?
thanks
mark
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You guys won't like my reply. %^ I build so fast that if they don't fly well with out allot of trimming or they get a dent scratch,hole,rash or I just get tired of looking at it I build another. HB~>
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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
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Hi Mark,
I think Ty nailed it!
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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 :D
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when do call it quits on rebuilding and repairing a plane ?
thanks
mark
I usually give up on one when there are more pieces (after the crash) than what was in the kit when I started building it (I'm not the only one whose been there probably).
James
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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
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to build or not to rebuild that is the question. by the way i hate outside loops.
mark
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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.
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crash it. bin it!!
it is pretty simple
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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
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After further thought, I think it is dependent on whether or not the plane is actually worth the extra time. Can you build a new one quicker? Will it still be airworthy?
If you just have to build a new wing, or some other part(s), and have the materials to do it, that might be a good idea.
All depends. When I was getting back into this, I would sometimes HAVE to rebuild a plane to have one! Now it is sometimes easier to just start fresh, but a *good* plane will get consideration if it's not too badly broken.
Bill <><