Minnie Mambo Balsa Build

For Christmas I got a box of balsa and I am currently in the process of building an airplane with it. I started building the airplane about a week ago and I have got quite a bit of work done on it. This is my very first balsa scratchbuilt airplane and I am learning a […]

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OS MAX .15 FP Cleaning

A little over a week ago I went to a flea market type business in my area where I bought an RC airplane that had a nitro engine on it. The plane is balsa and the engine is a OS Max .15 FP. I have been flying electric airplanes for close to two years now, […]

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Update: Website and Past Projects – 8/21/12

I had a few projects that I could have wrote about for today, but I thought I’d give an update on some past projects and a few new things that have to do with the website. ; Website I don’t know if any of ya’ll have noticed, but over on the right of the webpage […]

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Cool Tools: Hand Crank Drill Press

Score! I got this really awesome tool at a yardsale the other day. It’s nothing I’ve ever seen before. It’s a hand crank drill press. It’s a hand crank drill with a lever to lower the drill. This drill press has stamped into it “Made In Germany”. The guy I bought it from said he […]

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McCoy .049 Cleanup and Disassembly

About three weeks ago and older gentleman gave me some of his son’s old R/C stuff from the ’80s. Most of it is useless to me, like an old homemade battery pack and some outdated chargers. Amid the pile of stuff was a Testors McCoy .049 engine. The gentleman said that it used to run […]

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