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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Kafin Noe’man on September 07, 2022, 10:13:05 AM
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Hi all,
As time goes by, I keep adding new planes to my collection LL~ LL~
Currently, I’ve got Banshee, Vector, Cardinal, and Nobler.
And since I live in an apartment and space is very limited, I’d like to know how you store your planes.
Any storing tips/ideas for small spaces?
Best,
Kafin
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Hung from the leadouts. Either cup hooks on a bar or loops from a pipe.
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Hi all,
As time goes by, I keep adding new planes to my collection LL~ LL~
Currently, I’ve got Banshee, Vector, Cardinal, and Nobler.
And since I live in an apartment and space is very limited, I’d like to know how you store your planes.
Any storing tips/ideas for small spaces?
Best,
Kafin
https://www.cram-a-lot.com/sites/default/files/apartmentcompmain.png
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Seriously, I have either hung them by their tailwheels on the wall (cover the spot where the wheels hit and put a bag over the nose to catch the drippings). You can stagger the wings to get more to the wall or hang them from the ceiling upside down by their wheels. If you have the floor space an angled rack works nice. You can go floor to ceiling on a 4 x 6 corner. A lot of guys use them. Maybe somebody has a pix they could post.
Ken
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If you have room on your ceiling, this is a convenient way to store airplanes. Inexpensive Hang-All storage hooks work great for this purpose.
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Do a search here and you will find a lot of examples.
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Wall space can be eaten up quickly by hanging just a few models by their tailwheel struts against the wall. If you have some space out in the room a good way to store a lot of models is horizontally. You can stagger the supports as shown in the photo below to allow a lot of planes to be stored in a fairly tight area. I use wooden dowels sunk into doubled 2 x 3 plates that are lag bolted to the wall. Then I slide air conditioning insulation sleeves over the dowels to provide a soft resting place for the wings. Works perfectly.
Later - Bob Hunt
Bob, how do you not snag up on those tailplanes all the time?
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I don't know, Bob. Looks like you knocked the rudders off most of them.
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I've seen racks made out of insulation foam sheet: cut slots for the wing. For stunt models, you'd have to pick pretty rigid foam sheet.
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My old apartment before I was married had wall racks. It's true that hanging against the wall and against the ceiling both take no floor space. Neither do wall mounted racks. Hanging from the leadouts does require a series of cup hooks (my rig), or a pipe, or even a garment rack.
The benefit of leadout hanging is that it places no stress on the structure. While balsa sheeted foam probably won't dent that much from where the plane rests on the rack, silkspan on open bays is more fragile, in my experience. Even with the foam or rubber pipe insulation, some denting occurs.
thanks,
Peter