New to modeling!

and at the very least a glue proof box for your TV remote!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

chris

Ambroid glue - I previously had to look that one up, because the destructions in my 'Miss Dara' state it should be used in a couple of places. It turns out to have been invented for repairing canvas canoes, out in the woods (if you find canoes in the wood! You know what I mean! :evil: ). and as near as two fag papers in a packet, it is balsa cement!

Ambroid glue - seehttp://www.modelchat.org.uk/forum/free-flight-models/31501-adhesives-and-dopes-for-small-balsa-models#48139

So, maybe I misinterpreted the information I was reading. Ambroid, mixed down with acetone, should not normally be used?
Should I just stick with watered down Titebond (aliphatic resin)?

Dickie B wrote: So, maybe I misinterpreted the information I was reading. Ambroid, mixed down with acetone, should not normally be used?
Should I just stick with watered down Titebond (aliphatic resin)?

What's your problem with Ambroid, Dickie?

CeeJayP wrote: and at the very least a glue proof box for your TV remote!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

chris

:lol: :lol: :lol: I didn't glue it mister, I thinned it- that is different ya know :whistle: :whistle:

Well with you it probably needs to be glue proof as well [badass]

No problem, per say.
Is it what is normally used?

The prop rod and the suports, clevises, clamping rod, etc are now done. The table feels very solid.
Making that octagonal claming rod with the hole down the middle for the 3/8" all-thread was a booger.
But, it looks acceptable and what's more important, it works great!
I just gotta make the inserts now . . .
Hope to be modeling this weekend! I think I'll start with the first project in Ron Williams' book. He seems to elude that those who bypass that project, usually end up coming back to it to learn what he was trying to teach . . . so, I'll just start right there. That book is very informative, all beit old, I suppose good advice and workmanship never go out of style.

Dickie B wrote: No problem, per say.
Is it what is normally used?

I'm assuming this is the answer to my questoin on Ambroid Dickie, and if so, the answer is yes. That, DUCO or proprietary 'Indoor Cement"

that building table is a work of art sir.

Dickie B wrote: Hope to be modeling this weekend! I think I'll start with the first project in Ron Williams' book. He seems to elude that those who bypass that project, usually end up coming back to it to learn what he was trying to teach . . . so, I'll just start right there. That book is very informative, all beit old, I suppose good advice and workmanship never go out of style.

The info in the book is still good Dickie, esp the building techniques. The only thing that has changed is the technology - models are now covered in very thin film rather than condenser paper and microfilm. Also, rigging is no longer used.

I would recommend you get hold of someone on the Indoor FF Committee as soon as poss and certainly after you've built one or two of the models in the book in order to learn about the latest techniques and materials. There web site is: www.indoorduration-gbr.co.uk/

I logged onto their website about the same time I started chatting here. They have a section where you can ask them questions. I asked them if there were modelers and "happenings" around my neck of the woods and I haven't heard anything as of today. Hopefully they will answer.
I do know that the stadium at East Tennessee State University is where alot of flying is done cause my wife went to school there and she remembers it. That's just a couple of hours away, but a little too far to do trial flights and such.
I will ask my local high school if they would allow this to happen in their facility.

I owe you an apology Dickie, for some reason I assumed you lived in the UK........now I realise you are in the US I can give you some more appropriate info.

The group of peeps you need to contact are the NFFS (National Free Flight Society), their website is:

www.freeflight.org/Community/FreeFlightClubs/index.htm

Their indoor pages start here:

www.freeflight.org/Indoor/index.htm

Many thanks Andy!

cheers!