Projects Projects Projects, This hobby can be an addiction

[@helischorsch9786]

🤯…wow, that’s a lot of building

[@soosmate]

Haha lots of projects is the way to go!

[@andystoybox1723]

It’s not A hobby it’s an addiction! 😂😂 I say to myself stop buying and start flying .. 😂

[@Rcscalebuilder]

Glad to see you are enjoying the hobby, my friend...

[@Capgains7777]

Thanks Mike

[@Jens-ChristianBrandt-yf6yk]

Your pronunciation reminds me of my favorite movie "battle of Britain" , from 1969 , the old British actors says it just like that ( with the proper amount of stiff-upper lip) , in that movie you also get brits trying to pronounciate "stukas" and Germans trying to say "Spitfire" which sounds hillarious , not ready to tackle a warbird scale myself for building and flying ( but trying to cobble together an old falcon 56 kit for the moment) your channel has soo great tips on building, cant wait to try some of those techniques!

[@Capgains7777]

Hurricane = herdi ken. Hahaha. Glad you are enjoying the content. Hoping to get back in the shop soon and start working off my list of projects. It was a busy summer of big non hobby projects.

[@stevejones9044]

Make sure to keep your camera rolling when you work on all those projects. Excited to follow along with you.

[@stevemerrill7430]

Also - Can you talk about your Mini-Split? I've been thinking about installing one in my garage

[@Capgains7777]

I am retired. Two years now. The only thing that really holds up my time now is the 50 year old home we bought, and the repair and many projects my wife requisitions. I think I have shown shots of the backyard raised garden project in some of my videos. At some point I hope to finish up and work mostly on my airplane inventory. The mini split is easily the best piece of equipment I have bought for the shop ever. When we bought the house there was a Pik a watt commercial grade shop heater that ran with a 220v 50 amp breaker. It used a good amount of power running 24/7 just to keep the shop at 50 degrees in the winter. However summer brings sometimes 2 1/2 months of 90-100 degree days which makes the shop 82-85 by the end of the day. Not pleasant to work in. The mini split is a heat pump, so it heats and cools. It's a Mitsubishi and I think it's 12,000 btu. Cools my 20x24 shop down fairly quickly. And heats much the same. It did not run up a high electricity cost. The breaker on this one is 220v 15 amps so, it is lighter draw much more efficient. Not cheap, but, very effective if you want to be able to be in your shop at virtually any time. In the winter I will fire up football games and spend entire days out there working on airplanes and projects.

[@stevemerrill7430]

Are you retired? How do you find the time?

[@josephkerkau2520]

Where's a good place to find kids. Balsa USA's is one of them.

[@Capgains7777]

Kits are hard to find anymore, and sadly there are very few still producing them. After ARFs became all the rage, the kit makers kind of quit. As far as I know, BUSA is probably the last. Sig Manufacturing has been sold to a new owner that has fortified lines of Sigs classic planes that were all kits, to ARFs now although he has vowed to start making kits again. The word on the street is he is having the Something Extra, and LT40 kits being produced and plans to bring them all back…. I’d love to see it, but the marketer in me wonders how feasible that is, when the glut of the market seems to still be chasing the ARFs. I really wish there was a place that had a replicator like on Star Trek. You could call them, and they could with the stroke of a few keys, custom cut any kit to order with all the parts, hardware, balsa, plywood and hardwoods, instructions and rolled plans and in the mail. Ah crap, I am rambling… I did find Legend Hobby has a few kits available. I have a feeling Seagull Models may produce a few actual kits as well. Good luck.

[@josephkerkau2520]

@Capgains7777 Thank you, I find kits very hard to find. So, I started a scratch Built, No Instructions. So you take the print and you make a decision on What size wood, an interpret how to build the plane. Much harder!! I am currently scratch building a 1/3 scale Piper' Tri-Pacer pacer P22. Hard but FUN!!

[@Capgains7777]

@@josephkerkau2520you are correct, building with no instructions is harder and requires more interpretation. But typically there are three different assemblies that take place. Wing(s), Fuselage, Tail feathers and then sticking them together. If you find a set of plans that was published in a magazine sometime in the past then often there is an article that can be printed for more clues and that may be an answer as well. Model Aviation has a vast plans service that will sell plans that will come with the article. Some designers like Jerry Bates plans will also provide a set of instructions that are informative yet brief. There is Meister aircraft which have plans and kits but bigger and mostly warbirds. Hostetler plans, Zirolli plans are other designers that have agreements with cutting companies like National Balsa, and Precision kit cutters that can provide a complete or short kit. Bob Holman cuts kits for several designers. You can look at their website and backward find a set of plans. So you do have some options that provide you with what is essentially a kit.