Author Topic: Know when to say when !!! (Read 1964 times)

Leester · « **on:** July 05, 2009, 08:12:01 AM »

With a heavy heart I had to clean out several years of Balsa scraps

I came to the realization I just wasn't going to use it all "someday". The container was completely empty when I started, luckely I'm on the road enough I'll be able to get my 1 bag of trash in there. The good news is I get to start a new collection

Larry Cunningham · « **Reply #1 on:** July 05, 2009, 08:34:27 AM »

Don't feel bad. For years, I saved BALSA DUST. I had a whole kit box full of it..

Growing up poor might have something to do with it.

L.

PS - I see a few in that box that I'd still save.. ;->

"I discovered I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a Great
White or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot." Axl Rose - Guns'n'Roses

George · « **Reply #2 on:** July 05, 2009, 09:32:55 AM »

Quote from: Larry Cunningham on July 05, 2009, 08:34:27 AM

Don't feel bad. For years, I saved BALSA DUST. I had a whole kit box full of it..

Growing up poor might have something to do with it.

L.

Larry, I remember SIG selling BALSA DUST in little round cardboard containers. Used to mix with cement for fillets.

Leester, I feel your pain!

George

Matt Colan · « **Reply #3 on:** July 05, 2009, 09:38:55 AM »

We have a scap box under our workbench. The box is a Top Flite Score box and all the scrap we have completely fills the box up. We now started another box for scrap but it is nowheres near as big as that. We could probably build 2 or 3 airplanes if all that wood were in sheets and blocks

Steve Helmick · « **Reply #4 on:** July 05, 2009, 10:51:13 AM »

Jeez, Leester...that sure resembles a new JETCO kit! Maybe there's a couple of Shark 45's in der?

Steve

Charlie Pate · « **Reply #5 on:** July 05, 2009, 07:12:09 PM »

I would mistake it for a Berkeley kit ,except for the quality of the wood

john e. holliday · « **Reply #6 on:** July 06, 2009, 06:54:59 AM »

You should have boxed it up in several boxes and listed it on the bay. No telling how much you would have gotten for it. Good luck on your cleanup. DOC Holliday

George · « **Reply #7 on:** July 06, 2009, 07:20:59 AM »

Quote from: Ty Marcucci on July 05, 2009, 10:36:36 AM

...and call it, "former full size pieces with some applications pending pile".

Ty, I LIKE that title!

George

bbaker · « **Reply #8 on:** July 06, 2009, 09:56:22 AM »

It looks a lot like the plane I brought back from Eugene

Randy Powell · « **Reply #9 on:** July 06, 2009, 10:39:54 AM »

Man, I built almost my entire last plane out of the scrap box. Shame it died, but that didn't have to do with using scraps to build it. Hmmm, maybe it did since the bellcrank that failed also came from the scrap pile.

Randy Ryan · « **Reply #10 on:** July 06, 2009, 10:57:43 AM »

Quote from: Randy Powell on July 06, 2009, 10:39:54 AM

Man, I built almost my entire last plane out of the scrap box. Shame it died, but that didn't have to do with using scraps to build it. Hmmm, maybe it did since the bellcrank that failed also came from the scrap pile.

I've done that too, one I called "Scraps", a 50" profile job. I have enough to do it again about now, but I've actually taken to digging through it all before I start cutting parts, many a rib and gusset have come from that box without violation of "the good wood" stash. But then, my wife says its about time to start using that good wood, otherwise she says she'll give it to all my freinds when I can't use it anymore. My problem? I keep buying "good wood" and saving scraps, I'm just funny that way.

Randy Powell · « **Reply #11 on:** July 06, 2009, 03:10:42 PM »

Well, no more skimping on controls for me.

Leester · « **Reply #12 on:** July 06, 2009, 07:21:59 PM »

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Quote from: john e. holliday on July 06, 2009, 06:54:59 AM
You should have boxed it up in several boxes and listed it on the bay. No telling how much you would have gotten for it. Good luck on your cleanup. DOC Holliday

Great idea Doc, I love it.

Bill Little · « **Reply #13 on:** July 09, 2009, 01:38:56 PM »

Hmmm............ I have four boxes of *scrap* pieces......... I use them ALL the time. I believe someone mentioned *growing up poor* in a post above...........

(I didn't know anyone else had built planes from scrap box pieces! I guess i can admit it now.

)

BTW: balsa dust has PLENTY of good uses!

Big Bear