Household items for modelers
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| Hinges | Plastic from a 6-pack holder (stiffer) Plastic from a plastic milk container Mylar tape |
| Clamps | Clothes pins Clamps that hold
thick pads of paper Hair clip |
| Batteries | Some rechargable 9-volt batteries have sanyo 120 mah cells |
| Blades | Injector style shavers have blades that fit Exacto handles Beauty supplies have very sharp "trimming blades" |
| Pull-pull control cable | Dental floss |
| Covering material | Reynolds wrap (for light planes) TYVEK paper from Priority mail envelopes |
| Wire clothes hangers | For making temporary jigs to hold things in place while you solder/paint them. Good for soldering iron stands, too |
| CA glue kicker | Baking Soda |
| Bamboo | Shisk-ka-bob skewers |
| Building materials | R-Gard foam comes in 2'x4' , 4'x8' sheets 1/2, 3/4. 1 1/2 thickness
(hardware store). Foam underflooring (depron substitute) Meat trays too. Wallpaper insulation (very thin foam) venetian blind slats (bass wood) Paint sticks (spruce) Toothpicks |
| Battery and radio protector | computer mouse pads Green scouring pads (light weight) |
| clean up | vinager & rubbing alcohol good to clean up
epoxy vegetable oil great for removing epoxy and silicon cement from your hands. |
| plastic drinking straws | route wires through structures |
| Plastic spoons | You can cut the end off and use them as air scoops to direct cooling air over your motor or ESC. |
| VELCROŽ | removable parts (batteries) |
| School box pencil sharpener | to chamfer the end of nylon wing bolts. |
| brass tubing | ball point pen refills (used) |