Celastic

[Gary Dowler]

Wonderfully useful stuff, Celastic. Of course it's not available anymore. Anyone have and left over I might talk you out of?  Is there a similar product that is available, or that can be made?

Gary

[Ian MacNeil]

I did an internet search and found at least three suppliers so its still available.
You brought back memories from 50 years ago. Neat stuff.

[dennis lipsett]

Would you believe that I found 2 NIP of Celastic. Genuine SIG products. One each of heavy and light stock. Both are 9X18 pieces. Yours for shipping costs.

Dennis

[Gary Dowler]

Would you believe that I found 2 NIP of Celastic. Genuine SIG products. One each of heavy and light stock. Both are 9X18 pieces. Yours for shipping costs.

Dennis

Dennis you Da man!!  Shoot me a pm with an address where to send the money!!

Gary

[dennis lipsett]

Dennis you Da man!!  Shoot me a pm with an address where to send the money!!

Gary

Gary,

Send me a personnel message with your address with the zip code and i'll give you the shipping costs.

Dennis

[Tom Luciano]

Funny, Gary I ran across the same thing about 8 years ago. Mentioned it to my father and a week later he walked in with some. Last time he used it is when he built Super Satans in the 60's! I did the same and am currently building another! Still using that same piece.
  Whatcha building?

Best,
Tom
 

[Gary Dowler]

Funny, Gary I ran across the same thing about 8 years ago. Mentioned it to my father and a week later he walked in with some. Last time he used it is when he built Super Satans in the 60's! I did the same and am currently building another! Still using that same piece.
  Whatcha building?

Best,
Tom
 

I have several projects lined up, but it's just such a useful material for certain things.

[John Rist]

What do you use it for?   

[Gary Dowler]

What do you use it for?   

It's a great material for using as a reinforcement for structural parts. It's fairly light when it dries and it can be cut to any shape and molded to fit any contours.

[Jim Kraft]

Back in the late 60's I was landing my R/C Nobler and a dog ran in front of it. It put a pretty good gouge in the leading edge which got patched with Celastic. I think I might still have some but have no idea where it might be. I still have a lot of modeling stuff from the 50's. OK Cub .049's to .19's.

Anyway, speaking of Celastic, reminded me of those days gone by and how much I have accumulated over the years that I have forgotten I even had. No wonder I can never find anything. When we cleaned out my parents house after they passed, I found my old Hot Rock handle.

So see what you have done. One mention of an old product that we use to use like Austin glue guns, and it brings back great memories. I still have mine by the way.

Thanks for the memories.

[Paul Smith]

Celastic was the reinforcement of choice before we got into fibreglass and epoxy.

It looked like gray cardboard when dry.  But you dipped it in acetone for a short time and it got very flexible, so you could rub it into fillets and around engine pods.  It dried hard and needed to be painted with fuel proof dope.   It wasn't a beautiful ting, but great for combat, racing, trainers and sport planes.

It had some non-modeling use like maybe puppet heads or medical casts.  The Royal Craft hobby shop in Detroit got if from the generic source long before Sig got into it.

[Phil Krankowski]

Taxidermists still use it according to what I read when I last wanted some.  I used fiberglass cloth set with Testor's cement instead.

At the price i have found for a roll it isnt that expensive until one only needs 4 square inches... then it is very expensive.

Phil