For those who remember George Carlin had a terrific routine about Stuff. And how you end up moving so you can find a bigger place for all your stuff. And of course it has to be your Stuff. Then if yo become a participant of the matrimonial agreement, all of a sudden you are faced with finding a place to put all of the female units Stuff. That can be a whole sh*t load of Stuff. Anyway I have been out of active CL flying for a while and have been recently reacquainted with the mindbogglingly huge number of stuff required to get back into CL and an order of magnitude more for CLPA. So I thought I would share my estimation of the inventory required to christen a pair of models I will soon start building.
The two models in question are a SIG Magnum and a the Profile Forerunner. These two were chosen because being of the Foam Wing persuasion I figured I would be able to minimize the Suff count. So let us make a inventory list to determine just how high this pile of stuff will be dealing with.
We will begin with the Sig Magnum
One (1) model kit of the SIG Magnum
Two (2) Two (2) inch wheels
One (1) Magnum Fuel Tank
Fourteen (14) Dubro Large Hinges
Two (2) lengths of music wire to be used as hinge pins
One (1) Roll of blue silicon fuel tubing
One (1) OS46 VF engine
One (1) Venturie For the OS46 VF Engine
One (1) NVA and Spraybar for th OS46 VF
One (1) Rear Exhaust Header for the OS46 VF
Four (4) 10/36 alan head engine mounting bolts
Four (4) 10/36 blind nuts for the four (4) mounting bolts
One (1) UP flexible lead out cable
One (1) Down flexible lead out cable
two (2) Eyelets or tubes for the Up flexible lead out cable
Two (2) Eyelets or tubes for the Down flexible lead out cable
One (1) Line Clip for the UP flexible lead out cable
One (1) Line Clip for the Down flexible lead out cable
One (1) Four (4) inch carbon fiber bellcrank
One (1) Four inch nylon bellcrank
One (1) Bellcrank support shaft
Two (2) Wheel keepers to support the bellcrank on the shft
One (1) 3/4 tail wheel
A number of cut to size Carbon veil sheets
One (1) bottle of cyanoacrylate adhesive
One (1) 1 hour Epoxy Adhesive
One (1) bottle of asphaltic Resin wood glue
Four (5) Wheel Collars to secure the wheels
One (1) Three Blade aluminium Spinner
One (1) MAJIC 12 X 4.5 carbon fiber propellor
One (1) Container micro balloon Fil material
Three (3) various sanding implements
One (1) Dremel Moto Tool
Twelve (12) various dremel bits
One (1) Cordless Drill
Twenty Four (24) Drill bits of various sizes
One (1) Flap Horn
One (1) Push Rod for Flap Horn with Ball links at both ends
One (1) Elevator Horn
One (1) Push Rod for the Elevator Horn with Ball links at both ends
Three (3) Rolls of One (1) colors each (Pearl Blue, White, Lite Blue) of TopFlite Monokote
One (1) Monokote Iron
One (1) Heat Gun
One (1) soft rag
Many T Pins
One (1) Roll Blue Painters tape
One (1) Roll Solder
One (1) soldering gun
One (1) Gallon Fuel
One (1) Battery Igniter
One (1) Fueling device / syringe
One (1) Set of 70 foot steel braided lines
One (1) Flight Handel
Two (2) Flying Line Clips for Flying Handel
One (1) Glow Plug Hot
Miscellaneous Hand Tools
One (1) fuel filter
One fuel Tubing with a filter for Fueling device / syringe
One (1) Soft Rag for plane cleaning
Assorted Items to place in cockpit
One (1) Flight Box to hold Flight related items
One (1) Tachometer
One (1) Spares box with glo plugs, propellers, screws, nuts and bolts,
One (1) Five (5) Minute Epoxy
One (1) Tuned Pipe for OS46 VF
NOW the PATHFINDER
One (1) model kit of the Pathfinder
Two (2) Two (2) inch wheels
One (1) Magnum Fuel Tank
Fourteen (14) Dubro Large Hinges
Two (2) lengths of music wire to be used as hinge pins
One (1) Roll of blue silicon fuel tubing
One (1) OS46 LA engine
One (1) Venturie For the OS46 LA Engine
One (1) NVA and Spraybar for th OS46 LA
One (1) Muffler for the OS46 LA
Four (4) 10/36 alan head engine mounting bolts
Four (4) 10/36 blind nuts for the four (4) mounting bolts
One (1) UP flexible lead out cable
One (1) Down flexible lead out cable
two (2) Eyelets or tubes for the Up flexible lead out cable
Two (2) Eyelets or tubes for the Down flexible lead out cable
One (1) Line Clip for the UP flexible lead out cable
One (1) Line Clip for the Down flexible lead out cable
One (1) Four (4) inch carbon fiber bellcrank
One (1) Four inch nylon bellcrank
One (1) Bellcrank support shaft
Two (2) Wheel keepers to support the bellcrank on the shft
One (1) 3/4 tail wheel
A number of cut to size Carbon veil sheets
One (1) bottle of cyanoacrylate adhesive
One (1) 1 hour Epoxy Adhesive
One (1) bottle of asphaltic Resin wood glue
Four (5) Wheel Collars to secure the wheels
One (1) Two Blade aluminium Spinner
One (1) ZINGER WOOD 11 X 4 propeller
One (1) Container micro balloon Fil material
One (1) Flap Horn
One (1) Push Rod for Flap Horn with Ball links at both ends
One (1) Elevator Horn
One (1) Push Rod for the Elevator Horn with Ball links at both ends
Three (3) Rolls of One (1) colors each (metallic Charcoal, Silver, Red) of TopFlite Monokote
Many T Pins
One (1) Roll Blue Painters tape
One (1) Roll Solder
Two (2) Flying Line Clips for Flying Handle
one (1) Set of 65 foot flying lines
One (1) Glow Plug Hot
One (1) fuel filter
And Heck this is only the bare minimum number of stuff. I cringe at the man hours it will take to assemble it all even before the first piece id glued. This obviously omits even more stuff like One (1) Motor vehicle for transporting all the stuff, One (1) Bottle of Sun Screen, SIX (6) Cans of Beer, And various bags of snacks. One (1) Hat is optional. And of course unless you are of the Neanderthal persuasion Underwear, shirt, pants, socks and shoes.
Please excuse the typos as I am writing this while lying in bat at Gardens Medical Center, pretty wrecked on Ambian and other good stuff that deal with a not so insignificant heart issue.