Have you just made or modified some little gadget that has solved
a problem or enhanced your model? Have you got a handy tip to pass
on to other modellers? - send me details in an e-mail and share your good ideas
with the
rest of us!
low-cost kevlar
Remember Giri's suggestion for free
hinges in ModelFlight #5? Well, here's another great
idea for inexpensive material from LINDSAY HENDERSON from Oz,
as he signs himself:
For those that use
kevlar and find it expensive there is a ready supply of about 1 square
yard in every air bag that has gone through crashes in motor vehicles.
They don't repack them, generally they are dumped instead. See your
local crash repairer.
Thanks, Lindsay - great to hear from you, please keep in touch. I
managed to persuade Lindsay to tell us a bit more about himself which
I've put on the personal profiles
page.
field tables
I
made this little field table (left) for my Shuttle heli from a
canvas-covered folding garden stool that was bought from my local
Homebase shop for about £9.00. I simply removed the canvas seat and
replaced it with a five-ply top. I added a couple of wooden runners to
help keep my heli in place, and to improve stability when on the field,
I usually put a couple of diving weights across the feet. It is only
18" high, but that's enough to make fuelling and starting, etc., a
bit more
comfortable than when done at ground level. The big table on the right
was made in exactly the same way using an old Mothercare baby-bath
stand! The table-top is held firmly in place when the table is erected
by means of a long bolt that is fixed permanently to the top and which
simply fits into a hole drilled centrally through
the top of the supporting leg. The other leg is fitted to the
table top with brackets made from a piece of mild steel strip as this
picture of the underside shows. Both tables fold nice and flat for
storage and transport.
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I
made this little field table (left) for my Shuttle heli from a
canvas-covered folding garden stool that was bought from my local
Homebase shop for about £9.00. I simply removed the canvas seat and
replaced it with a five-ply top. I added a couple of wooden runners to
help keep my heli in place, and to improve stability when on the field,
I usually put a couple of diving weights across the feet. It is only
18" high, but that's enough to make fuelling and starting, etc., a
bit 
more
comfortable than when done at ground level. The big table on the right
was made in exactly the same way using an old Mothercare baby-bath
stand! The table-top is held firmly in place when the table is erected
by means of a long bolt that is fixed permanently to the top and which
simply fits into a hole drilled centrally 
through
the top of the supporting leg. The other leg is fitted to the
table top with brackets made from a piece of mild steel strip as this
picture of the underside shows. Both tables fold nice and flat for
storage and transport.