Tips & Tricks
Wires
Get a hold of a junk VCR and take
it apart. Quite often there are a lot of wire
harnesses in it. While the wire is other colors, as
well as black and red, it is high quality and works
very well for RC hookups.
Lite Ply
Replacement
My favorite material is
“doorskins” to use in place of Lite Ply. You can
purchase these at your local building supply company
for around 5 bucks. The sheets are 36-inches wide by
80-inches high and about 1/8-inch thick. I have used
this in place of Lite Ply in fuselage sides,
hatches, landing gear mounts, servo mounts, etc.,
and have never had a failure.
Plywood on the
cheap
Also along those lines, cabinet
makers have birch- and oak-faced ply pieces in
different sizes 1/4-inches thick, that they will
sell to you for a responable price. I use these for
firewalls, gear mounts in bigger airplanes, and you
can double them up to make firewalls for gas
engines.
Hardwood
For spars, I use 1/4 x 8 feet
poplar or maple. One board can be carefully cut in a
table saw with a fine blade (be safe when you use
power tools). You can cut these in 1/4 x 3/8, 1/4 x
1/2, etc. and make enough sticks to last for years!
—all from the First State R/C Club, Willmington,
Delaware
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