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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Paul Taylor on January 01, 2008, 05:05:43 PM
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I did this a few years ago and it turned up some nice photos.
I think it is always nice to see other peoples building area. I know some of you guys have a nice heated and cooled shop that you build in. Others like myself are limited to space. It would be nice if you guys/gals would show us your shop / building area.
I will start.
I have two places that I work from. One is in the hobby / play room in a upstairs room. The other place is a small bench that is a catch all for everything in my garage.
One day I hope to have my own little shop. Hey a guy can dream.
Here is my space....
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My workshop was my dads until he retired then i started using it. ;D
ofcourse he took better care of it n~ n~ LL~
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THIS WAS MY FAVORITE SHOP before retiring in 2004....I have shown this photo before that was taken with the late Tex Johnston...our beloved test pilot who was as crazy about models as he was about rolling that historic Dash 80 full scaled test airplane over Lake Washington.
On this day...I was working with him on an airbrushed photograph for his book that he was writing at my studio.
I had "borrowed" a camera from the Archives...quickly posed a bunch of my fellow flutter modelmakers that were in the final stages of finishing that Extended range 777 flutter model for the payload weights.
(that red white n' blue finish that I painted on this model was an experimental highly thinned, retarded, K&B SuperPoxy in order to meet final swing weight calculations.
OK! HERE IS MY OWN SHOP........... LL~ LL~ LL~ LL~ VD~ H^^
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y1 y1 y1 y1 S?P S?P
Where is your building area!!!!!! ~^ ~^
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This is the only one I have of my shop on this computer. Sigh... Be glad when my computer parts get here. I really want to get my home computer up and running again.
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My shop is an 8 x 10 golf cart garage. Got an awful lot of stuff in it and too messy to show!
Both our cars are the modern type, but there's two reasons to not leave them outside, LA smog and the Senior Penal Colony CC&Rs!
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My Model Workshop is a portion of my multi use workshop used for Woodworking and Auto maintance, Farm equipment upkeep , including a overall paintjob on a custom when needed .
It is divided into a work shop with countertops and several pullout workbenches a storage closet designed for model storage with racks for models up inside to the 12 foot ceiling . This keeps all of the models dust free during storage . No models are in workshop section unless being worked on .
William Davis
Bessemer City NC
" MCLS Carolina Gang "
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Here are some pictures of my shop. For some reason I don't have a picture of the fourth corner which contains a MIG welder, 8 inch table saw, 6 inch wood jointer,wood band saw, metal band saw and sometimes a wood lathe. When I am actually building planes I set up a couple of folding trestles and put a wood door on them. Behind the door is a 12x12 room where I have books, tools, completed models and most important a rocking chair. As you can tell I am a "tool nut". I counted the pliers that I had recently. 56 pair.
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All you guys ought to be ashamed of yourselfs for posting pictures of neat, clean and big work areas. I tried to take picture of my work area and camera refused to work. DOC Holliday
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Ty,
Maybe you should consider some plane storage. LL~
Someday, I'll finish my shop. I was just about done when I couldn't stand it anymore and started building planes.
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Sorry, no ukies in these pictures. The pic with the big Porterfield fuselage with the Fox 59 is from 1973. Now jump ahead 33 years and co-incidentally about 30 pounds to 2006. Same shop, now working on miniature sailplanes. I smartened up and started to use an apron to keep the expoxy off my shirts and pants. Finally 2007 and some little ducted fans.
I guess someday someone will find me rotting down in that shop; smiling of course!
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Well, Here goes. The first pic is my building table for whatever and the others show the relationship to the rest of the shop. These pics are my "finish shop" and there is a 14 x 18 "rough shop" on the back of my garage where I do the table sawing, routing, etc., and also the spray painting.
Wife Donna claims I live down here in the basement shop but that just ain't true - sometimes I have to go to the other one!
The bass guitar in the clamp is 90% done and goes to New Mexico, hopefully in about two weeks. The airplane is my new twin boomer, a copy of the original Ephesian and will sport my PA 75, maybe yet this year, maybe not - depends on how many guitar orders I get.
I think this is a clever thread, it can give us all new ideas on shop arrangement and airplane storage ideas, thanks for the idea!
Blessings,
Will
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co-incidentally about 30 pounds t
I think you should go back to parting your hair on the left. It makes you look 30 pounds lighter and thirty years younger.
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Hey Keith,
Not long after this photo, I started getting my hair "styled"; stayin' alive days and all. The girl doing my hair (38 D++) said I was parting it on the wrong side. I would have parted it ear to ear if she said so. 30# and 30 years later, who cares!
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ty,
No, I was thinking more like a separate storage facility. With multiple racks and a security guard. LL~
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rootbeard,
I'm sure glad you posted this one. I've been pretty busy since moving from Pa to our new house in NC. I just started on my shop a couple of days ago and hadn't thought about some before and after pics. Here are the before as you can tell. The space I've picked in the basement is in the back corner with a window. I've included a couple of outside pics. The shop space is 12 X 16 with lots of other space for storage outside the shop area. I have a bunch of my planes hanging in the crawl space which is about 8 feet high. I need to get them out of there by summer because of the dampness. I hope to have it done to the point where I can build a couple of kits for next summer particularly a new Brodak Nobler that I demolished last summer right before the Flyin.
Joe-if you read this, Harry and his wife stopped by to see us a couple of days ago. He was down visiting his son. I'll be up to see you guys in a few weeks.
Sam
Sam
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Sorry, Paul, the FCC has issued a ban on my posting pictures of my shop........
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Ever see such a mess?
Phil
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Phil,
If my place looked that nice, my wife would be calling the fellas in the white coats................
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Ever see such a mess?
Phil
Nice pixs Phil, but where's that old Coupe? :o
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Alright Sam L., where is the escape route? Really it looks good and I would suggest a de-humidifiar for the crawl space.
Now Phil C., I see all that vacant floor space, you slacking off on us?
Have fun, DOC Holliday
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I see airplains, stuff etc. What is the clear grey stuff on the bottom of the pic? A FLOOR I GUESS. LL~ LL~ I have not seen a floor in my shop for several years. LL~ LL~
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Sorry, Paul, the FCC has issued a ban on my posting pictures of my shop........
Hey Bill, sorry you the FCC has banned you. If you send the the pics I will send them.
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I recovered some floorspace after I sold the hotrod to a fellow in Denmark....done with hotrods...sigh....just like airplanes.....nobody wants to build 'em any more...just buy parts and have 'em installed.. by some shop..
Phil
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Ok why not...lol Here's mine.
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A couple of years old but a reasonable facsimilie of what is. Located 20 storeys above ground.
Kim.
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I just love these shop photos. You get a double whammy; you get to see the shops and the pretty planes all at the same time. I will try to scan my photos so you can see my makeshift setup.
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You asked for it
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Here's an update after a couple more days work. Trying to figure out the best space for the workbenches. Doc-I do have a dehumidifier for the entire space. Hopefully it will be enough. I'm going to do most of the walls in peg board. The grey stuff at the bottom of the pics is the floor but I don't expect to see it for long. I'm going to Lowes today and pick up a few cabinets. I would like to build some myself but I just can't take the time. I've got kits waiting. I can hear them calling me at night when I'm trying to get to sleep. (so many kits, so little time)
Sam
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Hi Everyone
Heres mine
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I have to get in on this act too. Generally, the shop stays rather neat, but in one picture, I'm in the middle of making a new test stand, so you can tell that I'm not a total 'neat freak'.
The peg board is a great life saver as far as staying organized is concerned. Everything has a "home" and you know just where to look for something when you need it.
The workbench is at a comfortable height for sitting and working, and the power tool bench is at a comfortable heigth for standing and using the tools. There is a floor model drill press out of camera range. The most used power tool......probably the 6" diameter disc sander.....almost every part gets its final sizing on that disc sander.
Cheers.
Warren
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Here's an update after a couple more days work. Trying to figure out the best space for the workbenches. Doc-I do have a dehumidifier for the entire space. Hopefully it will be enough. I'm going to do most of the walls in peg board. The grey stuff at the bottom of the pics is the floor but I don't expect to see it for long. I'm going to Lowes today and pick up a few cabinets. I would like to build some myself but I just can't take the time. I've got kits waiting. I can hear them calling me at night when I'm trying to get to sleep. (so many kits, so little time)
Sam
This looks like one of those padded cells. LL~ LL~ LL~ LL~ LL~ HB~>
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Some day my shop will be one of those neat ones (just before my estate sale)
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Now thats what I call multitasking. %^
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Wish I had nice flooring like Bob.
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Bob,
Do visitors have to remove their shoes? LL~
Phil
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Bob,
Yea, my shop is over the garage and separated from the house. Makes my wife happy that way. No hobby "smells". The floor is plywood and as soon as I finish painting the current plane, I plan to put down my "flooring". It's actually house stall mats. Stuff is about 1 1/2" hard rubber. I got a bunch from a guy recently and thought they'd make really cool shop mats. Soft enough to stand on for a long time but hard enough that they don't feel spongy. I have enough for the whole shop and they should add to insulation value. 6" wide wall and the 12" of ceiling insulation really make it pretty easy to heat with a single kersoene heater.
Still gets dusty, though.
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My shop is a complete disaster area, and from what I've seen so far, nobody can touch my level of messiness y1
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These have been posted before. Just haven't taken any newer ones.
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Bruce, Would you mind moving the planes so I can see the rest of the wall paper?
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My shop is a complete disaster area, and from what I've seen so far, nobody can touch my level of messiness y1
I wish mine was that clean. Since these photos were taken I built a Tudor, Challenger and Super Clown. So now it's even worse.
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Hey Bruce do you just build planes and never crash. Wow thats alot of planes just hanging around. Mine never last long enough to get the next one done. HB~> HB~> LL~ LL~
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These have been posted before. Just haven't taken any newer ones.
Whoah! I think we need a higher res pic of the wallpaper! VD~
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Whoah! I think we need a higher res pic of the wallpaper! VD~
NICE POSTERS....BRUCE! I'D RATHER SEE A CLOSE OF OF THAT TEAM TOPWRENCH POSTER?
MY GOOD-GODLY BRUCE...WHAT? WHERE THE VD~WERE U WATCH O'RILEEEEHEAD AGAIN?? SHAME, SHAM! I THOUGHT I TAUGHT U BETTA....WHAT THE VD~ WOULD GEORGE LIEB THINK? LL~ LL~ LL~
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I wish mine was that clean. Since these photos were taken I built a Tudor, Challenger and Super Clown. So now it's even worse.
Now that looks like a shop...I couldn't build in any of those surgical suites you guys been showing.
--Ray
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I have no explanation or excuse for this! HB~>
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My Jet Scale project is well under way. Can't decide on the 3-meter or 4-meter bellcrank, and Line III is no help on leadout placement. A few other modelers got in the way in the pictures. I am the 28th guy from the right.
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>>I think I speak for everyone posting on this thread that Mike wins the best shop award!<<
Or at least the BIGGEST shop award. :##
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These have been posted before. Just haven't taken any newer ones.
Does O'Rielly know about all the centerfolds hanging on the wall? LL~ LL~ LL~ LL~ LL~ LL~ LL~ LL~ LL~ HB~>
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Sorry Smotzie,
But I'm on completely the other side of the political spectrum from you. However, I hope our love for the modeling hobby will out weigh those differences.
As far as crashing, I haven't crunched an RC plane in many years. The one Kaos 40 on floats is probably at least 20+ years old and has been moved from floats to fixled gear many times I let a lot of the big boys fly it and they haven't been able to tear it up no matter what they do with it. It's running a 46 VF that still screams and was on another Kaos that I gave to my flying buddy Bob Lee. I haven't been out with it for a couple of years since Bob passed away. Oh and it still uses an old AM Kraft Gold Spectrum Radio that I had narrow banded and I never have had a glitch. The controline just haven't been flown that much because of my health and side effects of the drugs I take for pain. I'm slowly getting use to them and hope to get a lot more flying in and attend some contests.
Bruce
Here's a picture of Bob with his The Hots with a screaming Rossi before he put it in to a dirt hauler. He just couldn't keep up with it as he got older. I'm sure others on the forum will recognize him from the WAM contests we attended before I headed to Viet Nam.
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These have been posted before. Just haven't taken any newer ones.
Bruce
Love the wall paper. I sure hope Dino from SSW doesn't see this, he's going to have a stroke and accuse you of corrupting the youth of America.
My Shop actually covers three rooms not counting all the planes and kits I've got stacked in the bedroom.
Garage has drill press, grinder, sander and building table and planes.
Shop extention on back of garage has work benches, tools, storage, building materials and planes.
Office has computer network cad stations and engine and kit storage.
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I wish mine was that clean. Since these photos were taken I built a Tudor, Challenger and Super Clown. So now it's even worse.
Hi Mike,
You are beginning to come close to the level my shop looks like when it IS clean! A couple more years (if you just keep going like you are) and you will be in the area of where mine is when I decide to find something........... I haven't seen mine that clean since *Momma* Bobby Champione cleaned up my shop.
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Rick,
And you prove the theory that no matter how much space we have, stuff will grow to cover every horizontal surface.
I could have a 20,000 square foot shop and I'd still have no place to lay out a set of plans.
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My mother cleaned up my shop only once! we bought her a ticket back home! HB~> HB~> HB~> HB~> HB~> HB~> HB~> S?P
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Rick,
And you prove the theory that no matter how much space we have, stuff will grow to cover every horizontal surface.
I could have a 20,000 square foot shop and I'd still have no place to lay out a set of plans.
Isn't that the truth. I appear to be going thru the vertical space as well. One of these days I'll put all my kits in a pile and take a few photo's. It may take a day or two to get them all in the same room.
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Rick,
Teena and I are hoping to move to Tulsa later this year or early next year and the home we purchase will need to cover our hobbies. At least 10+ clear acres. We have also discussed the size of the shop if not already there. We plan on somewhere around 40x80 or 50x100. Inside we will design the areas for working on our individual hobbies together and then additional areas for wood working tools, another for metal working, and other as storage areas. My neighbor did this in the back of his shop and it's really nice. I incorporated the same idea when I built Teena's little 400 square foot shop before my last surgery. These areas would be about 2/3 s the width of the shop with connecting doors about 10' wide. Benches, shelves, etc. on each wall for
storage, tool set-ups, etc. I plan on putting in dust vacuums where needed. Of course heat and AC in the main work areas. We have also decided to put a large enough back-up generator to keep the home and shop usable when the power goes out.Teena said again this morning how she wish she was already retired. I just hope it all comes together sooner than later and our health will allow us to enjoy our later years together.
Bruce and Teena
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You guys/gals have asked for it, now suffer. Here are two shots of the dungeon where I build/assemble my models. First shot is looking back to where I set. The TV is up on a set of shelves, The Spitfire is sitting in my chair. The second picture is the path to the furnace. Most of my kits and engines are on the back ledge that is about 4 foot deep. Was hoping to have all that in the new shop that is still waiting for the slab to be poured. Later, DOC Holliday
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WOW Doc your my hero LL~ LL~
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I can't even find your TV. Not sure about the Spitfire in the chair either. I do see a neat-looking Super Swoop.
Your furnace is really back in there? Don't want to be an old woman, but that kinda looks like a fire hazard. You got an extinguisher in there I hope. And a path cleared to the exit.
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That is a Walter Umland kit of the "Sweet Sweep". Will do the whole pattern with only 1 lap between maneuvers using an OS FP25. Pictures of it are here on the forum somewhere. Also I do have a fire extinguisher. It really isn't as crowded as the camera makes it look. Later, DOC Holliday
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You guys/gals have asked for it, now suffer. Here are two shots of the dungeon where I build/assemble my models. First shot is looking back to where I set. The TV is up on a set of shelves, The Spitfire is sitting in my chair. The second picture is the path to the furnace. Most of my kits and engines are on the back ledge that is about 4 foot deep. Was hoping to have all that in the new shop that is still waiting for the slab to be poured. Later, DOC Holliday
REMARKABLE! LL~ LL~ LL~ LL~ LL~ LL~ HB~>
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That is a Walter Umland kit of the "Sweet Sweep". Will do the whole pattern with only 1 lap between maneuvers using an OS FP25. Pictures of it are here on the forum somewhere. Also I do have a fire extinguisher. It really isn't as crowded as the camera makes it look. Later, DOC Holliday
Sweet Sweep, I knew that, I really did, dunno where the "Super Swoop" came from...I know, it's an old 60s combat design, but I know the difference...too many "S"s and "w"s, synapses getting too old I guess. Anyhow it still looks good.
--Ray
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Just went down and took a few photos of my workspace, too small to be called a "shop"...one end of a (very) small basement. My wife's sewing junk is in the other end, she has an imaginary line drawn I'm not allowed to cross with any of my stuff.
--Ray
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This use to be part of my shop but my son moved back home and my wife turned his room into her sewing room. So I had to clear all my stuff and paint and panel this area for him. Now I'm really cramped. But atleast the bathroom down here now works so I don't have to go up stairs as much(prostrate).
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Yeah, I forgot to mention that...I do have a bathroom adjacent to my little space...handier and handier as time rolls on!
My philosophy is: "A bathroom on every floor." No one should ever have to run up or down a stairway with a full bladder or diarrhea! I lived for awhile in a 2-story house with basement...I had 3 bathrooms, 1 on each. A necessity in my opinion.
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Ok here is mine.
Mike Griffin
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OK, I finally got out and took some pictures. I'm in the middle of cleaning it up and, oh my gosh, dusting. Time to get 3 years of accumulation of dust off. I may actually find some stuff. See if you can guess which parts have been cleaned up.
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Randy, what is the fan bolted to the piece of 3/4" plywood for? Is that some sort of window insert?
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Steve,
Yea, it fits the window above the TV. Nice exhaust fan.
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I'm finally making heaeway on my new shop. I couldn't wait to get started on the Nobler. That's it sitting on my temp table. I actually glued two pieces of balsa together today. That's rags checking out the plans for me. Unfortunately Rags is at the vets today losing his manhood. Good thing he doesn't realize what he's missing or going to be missing
Sam
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I'm finally making headway on my new shop. I couldn't wait to get started on the Nobler. That's it sitting on my temp table. I actually glued two pieces of balsa together today. That's rags checking out the plans for me. Unfortunately Rags is at the vets today losing his manhood. Good thing he doesn't realize what he's missing or going to be missing
Sam
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I was wondering where Rags was...couldn't see John's TV, now couldn't see anything that could be named "Rags"--thought my eyesight was surely going, 'til your second post.
--Ray
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Lets hope Rags isn't to upset with him. He might wonder where all those teeth marks in balsa came from as well as the yellow spots on the plans. As far as building the Original Nobler just follow the instructions. I did carve thru the blocks in a couple of places. I don't think De Hill has ever rebuilt the inboard wing yet. Nothing like listening to Fox 35 Stunt trying to tell you not to fly. DOC Holliday