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| Aluminum
Soda Cans |
Cut aluminum soda cans into squares with scissors or paper cutter. Glue them with slow CA, Elmer's glue, or good contact cement. They make great scale looking panels for your war birds. |
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| Lite
Plywood
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36"x 80"x1/8" door skins can be purchased at your local lumber supply for a fraction of the cost of Lite Ply. | ||
| Nuts & Bolts
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Buy "T" nuts, small screws and such at hardware stores by the gross, If they don't stock them they can order them for you. | ||
| Glue |
Use Elmer's Carpenter's Glue AKA Tightbond on wing ribs, sheeting, fuselage skin, etc. Many places where you normally use CA. You still need CA where you need fast drying. A plastic syringe comes in real handy for getting into those tight places.
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| Filler
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Lightweight spackling paste is cheap and comes in a large container. Just add water and stir when it gets to dry. | ||
| Popcycle Sticks
T |
hey come in boxes of 100, 500, 1000, and they are cheap and can be used for servo rails, fuel tank stops, mixing epoxy, any place where you are going to put in screws. You will find all kind of uses for them. | ||
| Wind shields and Canopies
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Made from 2 and 3 liter Pop containers, you can get a nice piece of flat by cutting away the top and bottom. | ||
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Wing Bolts
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You can purchase nylon wing bolts (1/4-20) for about 9 cents a each at the Fastenall company or any other fastener company. | ||
| Plywood
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Birch and oak faced ply pieces in different sizes 1/4 in. thick, can be found at your local cabinet makers shops and can be use for firewalls, gear mounts in bigger planes, and you can double them up to make firewalls for gas engines. | ||
| Hardwood
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1X4 by 8 ft. Poplar or maple can be carefully cut on a table saw with a fine blade | ||