Got to be witchcraft

[Gary Dowler]

I regret to inform those assembled here today that………Randy Smith is…..a witch.   Must be.  Has to be. 
Some time back I bought one of his wonderful SV-11 kits.  At one point I took the rolled up plans out, and not much else.
Preparing my collection of many things for the move to the new house soon, I wanted to get the plans back into the box. I’d sort of tried once, gave up. Figured no real need for it then.   Apparently this act is akin to stuffing the genie back into the bottle.  Nearly impossible, I’m here to attest.
Has to be witchcraft involved in the original packaging, I am convinced of this.  Took me 20 minutes of dedicated effort, removing things, rearranging things, trying to stuff it all back in…..  finally I was able to find an adequate arrangement of contents that (a) allowed the box to close, and (b) actually had all the parts in there.    Sheesh.

This thing ain’t coming out again until it’s time to go on the bench!!!

 

Gary

[john e. holliday]

I've got several kits like that.  Then I have kits that I wonder why such a big box.

[FLOYD CARTER]

It becomes quite easy if you first cut some of those long pieces into smaller pieces.  then it will all fit.

[Dan Berry]

Inspector 5 from line 2 is yawning.

[Dan McEntee]

    You have heard the stories of how some of the classic stunt models got reduced and changed just so they could fit in a standard box? That is very true, and there used to be a specific position called "Kit Engineer" and it was his job to decide what got changed so kit parts would fit in a standard box that they had in their stock. It was an important position and when you think about how many kit makers there were back then, and the greater numbers of kits that they produced in such a competitive market, things needed to be just so and every penny watched like a hawk! Try taking some parts out of a Jetco Shark .45 kit and then get them back in the same way so the lid fits properly for stacking!. Back in my R/C sailplane days I got to know the folk at ACE R/C in Higgensville, MO quite well, and was sort of "interviewed" for that position with them. If I knew that I could talk my wife into moving out that way, I would have considered it just to have a job in model aviation!
    Type at you later,
    Dan McEntee

[kevin king]

Speaking of witches, here's Bruce Perry's Scarlet Witch powered by a piped PA 75.