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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: wwwarbird on October 24, 2006, 04:24:04 PM

Title: A system for storing your models...
Post by: wwwarbird on October 24, 2006, 04:24:04 PM

A few people have asked me how and where I store my models, here's the scoop...

  I whipped up this rack system a while ago that works really swell. It just sits on the basement floor, and is tacked to the upstairs floor truss. Then it's tied at the bottom to maintain width spacing, and also braced halfway up so it won't try to move toward the wall. The horizontal arms are 14" long and are spaced every 10" or 11" up from the floor. Protection comes from sections of pipe insulation. I've got about 12 bucks in the whole works! ;D

Title: A couple more storage system pics...
Post by: wwwarbird on October 24, 2006, 04:29:58 PM

A couple more photos of the rack for ya... ;D

Title: Re: A system for storing your models...
Post by: Curmudgeon on October 24, 2006, 05:28:42 PM

So Wayne, where's the Skyray going to park? You got one on the floor already. I can help you out!!! Just pick something off the rack and ship it to me. Then you'll have enough room!!  **)

Title: Re: A system for storing your models...
Post by: wwwarbird on October 24, 2006, 05:34:58 PM

See that banged up Shoestring? Funny how this is all a rotational deal. ;)

Title: Re: A system for storing your models...
Post by: Phil Coopy on October 24, 2006, 05:57:50 PM

Hey Wayne, could you design one to fit on my shop in your spare time?

Phil

Title: Re: A system for storing your models...
Post by: Russell Shaffer on October 24, 2006, 06:03:02 PM

12 bucks include the planes?  If it does, I need to know your supplier.

Title: Re: A system for storing your models...
Post by: bruce malm on October 24, 2006, 06:28:57 PM

I was running out of wall space so I made some new ones to hang from the ceiling. I used 1/2" EMT conduit and bent U pieces about 36" long. I covered the lower part with the foam pie insulation and then screwed them to the ceiling about 8" apart.
I hang the planes by the horizontal stab. You can hang 5 or six airplanes on each set. Of course it helps to have 10' ceilings.

Bruce

Title: Re: A system for storing your models...
Post by: Tom Niebuhr on October 25, 2006, 12:41:10 AM

Wayne,

What pilot figures did you use in the Souhoi and the Viking?

Title: Re: A system for storing your models...
Post by: wwwarbird on October 25, 2006, 08:14:33 AM

Tom,

 Williams Bros. in both of them. Each of them are modified to fit and also sit at the right height. I made the Russian guy 3/8" taller with balsa, and I shortened the Viking pilot some on the disk sander, and canted him forward a bit.

Title: Re: A system for storing your models...
Post by: wwwarbird on October 25, 2006, 08:16:36 AM

Phil,

 If you got rid of all that R/C stuff you'd have more room. ;)
 
 Looks like a nifty little street rod hiding under the cover.

Title: Re: A system for storing your models...
Post by: Dwayne on October 25, 2006, 05:23:19 PM

Quote from: wwwarbird on October 25, 2006, 08:16:36 AM

Phil,

 If you got rid of all that R/C stuff you'd have more room. ;)
 
 Looks like a nifty little street rod hiding under the cover.

Yeah Phil what's under the covers?
thanks
Dwayne

Title: Re: A system for storing your models...
Post by: Richard Grogan on October 25, 2006, 05:43:30 PM

Quote from: Dwayne Donnelly on October 25, 2006, 05:23:19 PM

Yeah Phil what's under the covers?
thanks
Dwayne

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