Top Secret Foam Repair, a new trick to fixing your foam airplane

I show you an old trick and a new trick. Hope you enjoy

[@highlander9917]

I worked at a hobby shop. We repaired customer planes. I've been using this method for over 12 years. We had the steam cleaner for several purposes. The first thing we used it for was straightening and removing dents on lexan car bodies. I just thought everyone knew about it by now. Thanks for letting everyone know.👍👍

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Lol. That’s awesome. Never tried it on a car body. Thanks for watching

[@mxracingunlimitedltd7784]

Yea I hadnt heard about that for RC car bodys but ive done that on my car before in the interior so idk why i never thought to try that haha thanks going to give it a try one day..

[@RedwoodRc]

That sir is a top notched tip. The spackle I already knew about. The steamer is a game changer.

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

For sure

[@motionsic]

Precision foam repair tool! Thanks for the tip!

[@michaelmauersberg7907]

Hey I am new to the Hobby and I think what you have shown me here with foam is just amazing! Had no idea the affects of hot water and steam. Thank you

[@madhouse740]

Great Tip. I have used light weight Spackle since my first foamie around 2008. I didnt know there is a bendable Spackle. Again thanks for the info.

[@marciron1]

Very cool !! I use the dipping in hot water trick a lot, but this seems like a much better way to get a more focused, localized foam repair in less time with less work. Thanks

[@bobbyalessi]

Hey Brenden, You rock my friend, you've helped me numerous times with your wisdom. Keep us the great work!

[@Killerplanes]

Bobby Alessi as in- Barnaby Bye?

[@claudiomueckay4219]

Excellent advice! Thanks

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Welcome. Thanks for watching.

[@yamilguillermoparravalenci1935]

Really nice trick Mr Brenden, thanks for sharing.

[@Benjamin_Reese]

YES! Thank you! I have a steamer and your trick is perfect, I'm fixing an A-10 as well.

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Thanks for commenting and watching. Appreciated

[@billpennymcnally226]

Thanks, Brenden great trick and have taken that on board

[@warrenpeace2056]

I totally agree with the little steamer idea, I've been using it for two years, with good results!

[@geordienufc3132]

Nice tip for repairing small areas.

[@boxlessthinker1973]

What an excellent tip! Thank you.

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Thanks for watching

[@aidengriffen]

Great videos!!! I've already ordered my steamer to fix my foamies!!

[@eqrc7587]

Great tip brother!!! I’m looking for a steamer now.👍🏻✌🏻🖖🏻

[@jamesisom3318]

Great tip!

[@tomorrow517]

Hey, this is great! Thanks for sharing.

[@sacrificialrubber779]

I had planned on trying this, just have not had a chance! Kick ass video! Informative and to the point!👌🏻🤘🏻

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Thanks. Is works well depending on what your trying to fix.

[@WiliiamNoTell]

Very informative and straight to the point thank you for sharing

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Enjoy!

[@J2onton]

Thanks for this info.

[@paulhatcher9767]

That is awsome! I must have one in my hanger. Thank You for sharing.

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Thanks. Don’t forget to share like and subscribe. Best wishes.

[@dutchloveRC]

Great ideas Buddy!!

[@ghoustanable]

Love it.. I have one of those sitting around the house.

[@robstanton9215]

Thanks for the great tips!!

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Thanks for watching. Feel free to check out my insta Just Plane. Easy and Facebook Just Plane Crazy OFFICIAL page as well. Happy flights……

[@robertlawrence6606]

Annnnnnd steamer ordered!! Thanks buddy!

[@DaninVA]

Great trick! Thanks much!

[@darrellpiker3330]

Good job buds thanks for all your networking and trial and trial’s and eras East coast Canada

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Thanks for watching

[@hassanhammoud2243]

Wonderful thanks for the info. Who would have thought and to boot it's so precise. Every little new trick helps somewhere the other and this my friend is absolutely amazing.

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Oh for sure. It’s close to my baby powder paint trick vid I made

[@papapsadventures6119]

That's awesome!! I didn't know you could soak in hot water to re-expand crushed foam. The steamer is perfect!

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Use that trick a lot. Works well

[@frankreilly8071]

Brilliant. Simple but brilliant like most good ideas.

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Thanks for the compliment and watching😝😜🤪

[@PhilBender612]

Great tips! I've used most of them but I don't own a steamer. May have to get one. But looking at your A-10 reminded me exactly what happened to my E flite 64mm A-10. I bounced it landing and ripped up the gun and nose just like yours. I glued it and used flexible spackle and paint matched at home depot. Looks factory fresh. All great tips. Thanks!

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Thanks for watching and commenting. Don’t forget to share away and check me out on Facebook and Instagram

[@thebunkreport]

I've seen a few guys do the same thing at our field. These guys are great RC pilots too. I guess maybe it's just a tough one to land?

[@DaninVA]

Great repair tip and video!

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Thanks and thanks for watching

[@richarddonahue3565]

Great idea.

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Ty

[@realozark2349]

Excellent tip! Now I just need to find the best source for a similar steamer Thank you!

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

It’s an oldie but anything you can get a finer tip with will work

[@mercSnake]

Absolutely an epic tip! I am great at bringing smashed foamies back to life, but this tool tip will make me amazing. Suscribed button smashed!

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Thanks for watching. Share share away. Don’t forget to check out my Facebook pages and the merch store. Link on my official FB pg.

[@Wings_of_foam]

Lol@@JustPlaneCrazy

[@herkloader34]

Man, that’s awesome! I’m gonna run out right now and pick up a small steamer and get busy with my repairs. Thanks for the great video, Brenden!

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

You bet. Thanks for watchingb

[@tonydoza6]

Freaking wow man good find! This is really gonna come in handy for me. I was just looking into refinishing some of my planes that I can't find parts for anymore.

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Thanks for watching

[@richardmulligan6113]

Worked like a dream!!

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Glad. Thanks for watching

[@bobturner3388]

Great trick

[@chamowllie]

Holy crap!!!!!! I have a steamer and just tried!!!! I couldn’t hit the subscribe button fast enough!!!

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

It’s so much fun. Thanks for watching. Share share share and don’t forget to check out the official Facebook and Instagram

[@denismoran670]

Great tip, as usual, thanks very much, Diolch yn fawr, Den, Cymru (Wales)

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Thanks for watching. I love sharing tips, all around the world🤪😜😝

[@jimslaughter4579]

great tip! We do have a steamer!

[@Killerplanes]

Love that steamer trick! Gotta git me one of those-

[@w.j.bendellr.c.flying.1037]

That is so cool, thanks now I need to find a steamer like that. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

It works well. An oldie but goodie

[@PatJones82]

Great info. Subbed!

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Thanks for watching

[@WildCaptures]

Fantastic ideas 👍👍👍👍

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Thanks. Thanks for watching

[@matthewjames2649]

Nice !! Ty4sharing out there!!

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

For sure. Check us out on Insta and the official Just Plane Crazy Face Book also

[@williamsantiago7303]

Man, I don't know about these air planes. I just ordered my first plane and it's the a10 that you're fixing. They are so cheaply made and so freaking expensive for a bunch of cheap FOAM. I have plans to learn how to fly on a simulator and then start with a cheap model until I master the flying before I fly the a10. I might return the thing now that I see that the break so easy. It just ain't worth the money. I'll still fly a cheapy but I don't think I'm gonna stay with the planes. I'll go back to my rc cars and trucks. Thanks for the video, it really helped me make my mind up. Thumbs up on your video buddy. 👍

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Welcome. Planes can be unforgiving. Just remember we all started somewhere and knew nothing. Learn the right way and you will be ok. Many have been down that road and have successfully made it. Also somewhere is guy saddened because he just crashed a 15,ooo turbine jet.

[@98-24]

I don't know how to thank you, I just got a new Carbon Cub S2 and a fluke cross wind drove it nose into the ground and it crumpled the fuselage, I was so upset but I found your video and it fixed the plain, Thanks so much for the help.

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

That’s awesome. I hope u get more good flights out of it

[@BooDevil65]

BRILLIANT

[@tonykakamousias3559]

This guy rocks

[@YeetLord666]

This was a pretty good idea 💡! You got one more subscriber from this vid.

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Thanks for watching and subscribing

[@firehat]

Good tip

[@RKOAviation]

Show us how to remove water slide decals! Great trick keep it up sir! Enjoy the channel very much.....

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Thanks for watching. Removing water slides is best done with a home steamer. Availed on amazon for about 20 bucks. Otherwise you can paint right over them also and never know they were there

[@Tatertot_Tommy]

THERE IT IS!!

[@moonpaws1]

Haha. I was going to sell the one I have in my garage which I haven't used in about 15 years. Nice.

[@kawasakizx14jomamamoto57]

That looks like a old hobbico superstar 60 sized up in the right corner. If so, that was my first rc plane back in the day.

[@embededfabrication4482]

get the little heat gun they use for soldering, you can localize the heat that way

[@friedlhochhaeuser6707]

Thank you very much, it really works!

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Of course. One of the best channels out there if I must say so. So many cool tricks on my channel. Did you see the baby powder trick?

[@friedlhochhaeuser6707]

@@JustPlaneCrazy No I haven’t seen it yet..

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Check it out. Using baby powder on foamies before before taping allows you to remove the tape without peeling underneath paint and get a clean paint line

[@friedlhochhaeuser6707]

@@JustPlaneCrazy Great, thank you very much for your time!

[@ret737]

Thank for sharing "B"

[@c-seventeenloadmaster8952]

I just use a miniature iron for covering balsa airplanes. There is another vital secret to repairing planes, while also strengthening them a great deal… it makes bad wrecks look as good as new.

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

👍🏻 nice

[@boss2234]

I have tried this same thing with a steam -penguin, glad to see some one else doing it too.

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

They are awesome

[@Corrigan65_]

Brilliant

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Thanks. It works well

[@jamesmarshall9420]

Could you share what the brand and model of steamer used in this video...?

[@drgunsmith4099]

Anyone know of the British alternative to the Dap flex spackling. Thanks.

[@afterburnerrc6333]

Wow, that steamer is the coolest thing ever!

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Thanks for watching. If you haven’t checked out my last vid on painting foam using tape without pulling up the original paint check it out

[@itzjoeylo4501]

I’m new here, subscribed ✅and liked 👍

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Thanks. Much appreciated

[@Rob-vt1mz]

I just tried this on a brand new qq300 from flex that came with a bent wing that they wouldn't do anything about. I used travel cloths steamer so was a wide nozzle but it worked very well. Well enough that I'm going to hit amazon for a steamer ha.

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Thanks for sharing your story and I am glad my trick worked for you. It’s all about the love of the hobby

[@aerospacematt9147]

1:07 Oof. Yeah, I’ve Fodded out EDFs before. That’s why I always do a FOD walk on the runway before I fly a jet.

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

I think it was my own fod lol. I think I bounced and sent something through it. Eh. Live and learn I guess. Thanks for watching and commenting

[@aerospacematt9147]

@@JustPlaneCrazy Ahh, that’s rough. Thank YOU for the secret trick!

[@mikeduncan2127]

Where did you find a steamer with pinpoint nozzle?

[@volkankesici]

İs it exposed fiberglass on the ceiling? You are inhaling fiberglass particles there.

[@jean-claudeterretaz7464]

I will use the steamer from my expresso coffee machine ..thanks

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Noooo. Then the plane will smell like dark roar. Lol

[@brandonsmith1475]

This may be a stupid question but what kind of foam was that piece you were demonstrating with??

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Epo. Same piece of that plane that’s was damaged beyond repair and was getting replaced

[@shelbyseelbach9568]

Armament, an armature is something completely different. Fantastic use of the steamer though!

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Lol. Ty

[@shelbyseelbach9568]

@@JustPlaneCrazy 😜

[@cristiansaldivia8179]

Hi! Excuse me!wich plane is the trainer behind you in the wall at 0.52? Registration N226LK … i have exactly the same one and I don’t know the name… i think its from Hobbico maybe… thanks for sharing nice tips! Best wishes

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Hobbit pt40 superstar. My first trainer. Recently sold it

[@davidis3001]

Hi say what are you using as brackets to hold all you planes to the wall.

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Regular adjustable shelf brackets and then slide a piece of PVC tube whatever length you need over the majority of the shelf bracket.

[@dallandixon3973]

❤

[@rafaeltorres2886]

Look when showing us your repairs please don't give us the back story cause that's not important to us cause we all make mistakes and occasionally crash our planes we just want to know your expertise in repairs of our beloved models your insightfulness is valued. I liked and subscribed😁

[@Cooldrums777]

I crashed the front end of the exact same A10 as you did. I need to know what glue do you use to fix this plane?? The front nose gear retract assembly ripped out completely from the foam fuselage. What kind of glue should I use to put the assembly back into the fuselage??

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Foam tac all the way

[@Cooldrums777]

Thanks for the reply. I never heard of it. I will order up a tube of it on Amazon now. You have to maintain a good bit of speed landing the A10. I broke the nose gear pin landing it on the maiden flight. Bought new PIN set and fixed it. Went out today for a second try and stalled close to the ground trying to landed it. I hit a clump of grass just short of the runway and tore the whole nose gear assembly right out of the fuselage. At least I didn't break any parts this time. Just ripped the crap out of the bottom / side of the fuselage. Fits back in place fairly well. But will need alot of that foam tac !!!!!

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

You can also use beacon foam glue from a craft store like hobby lobby. It’s a big bottle of the same stuff a bit cheaper. The a10 needs the cg moved aft from the most rear recommendation about 5mm. That requires the blue box to be relocated back a bit. With the cg there it gives you flare authority on landing. No more bouncing or nose smashing. It doesn’t need the gear upgrade. Also I use the landing nose 3D print block and 6mm carbon tubes on the inside nose channels. It’s like they were made for them. Since those mods I love this plane.

[@bobturner3388]

Brenden, the best foam damage repair stuff is called Plstic Wood! Goes on like spackling,sands perfectly and easily,dries to a consistency of plastic/wood! This stuff is ABSOLUTELY THE BESTfor what we need! Anyone who tries this "plastic wood" email me on your results

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Thanks bob for watching and the tip. I will check it out

[@floridamancomedy3151]

Right before you say “holy cow” I said “holy shit” dude great.idea I have dings and dents on all my planes

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Thanks for watching. It’s a cool trick for sure

[@duanetoothaker3207]

Awesome find that is...what's the name of the steamer? I watch your videos alot and I've learned many things as a newbie so thank you...Im hoping you can point me in the right direction on a problem I have with my spectrum Dx6 controller.. My son was messing where he shouldn't be and for some reason whenever I turn it on it goes into a low battery warning but the batterys are full..I am guessing he got himself into the warning settings and set something and I don't know how to reverse it...HELP PLZ ...lol

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

I have a dx6. Let me look when I get home

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

I held down menu scroll button, turn on Tx. First screen shows System Setup list. Scroll to System Setup to change the battery setting back to Alka. Alarm 4.3V. The first time I did it, I ran out of time, and battery warning came on, but I was able to fix it the second time when done quickly.

[@Paiadakine]

W

[@IndiWoolley]

what's the thing called that you used to fix it?

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

A steam cleaner

[@JJ-jt4ji]

They do sell foam putty

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

They do. I don’t use it. Also hard to find

[@michaelmickoberhaus8009]

Where do you get the steamer?

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

That one I have had a long time. Look at Walmart or on Amazon

[@richardfoster3242]

Where could I get one of those steamers?

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

You have to look around. Places like Walmart or amazon. Mine is prolly about 20 years old.

[@josephkerkau2520]

What kind of paint can you use on phone

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Epo can withstand, acrylic, latex, Rustoleum 2x and krylon

[@josephkerkau2520]

@@JustPlaneCrazy Thank you I appreciate the return

[@scalehelirc]

hello...❤

[@seanmolloy9422]

do not go over 165 deg to avoid alligator popcorn effect

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Good info

[@rcav8r185]

What is that?

[@bojk13]

Not so tip secret but thanks any way

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

I guess it depends why it’s not so top secret. I released this a couple years ago so word gets around. There are many wild technics that were never heard of before that I have shared on this channel. Just like the baby powder trick.

[@davidg.3226]

But how?? why?? OMG

[@BRIANFORWARD1]

Good VID rule number 1 GET creative Brian London

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

Lol very true. Thanks for watching. Share share away

[@BRIANFORWARD1]

@@JustPlaneCrazy I think were both on the same page... repairing and ingenuity.... Is half the fun of flying

[@think2cre81]

No substitute for brains

[@TheTruthWillBRevealed]

Nice hack JPC, thanks. How do you avoid loosening and/or removing the decal that's right next to the nose damage? Is that why you used the spackle there instead of the hot steam?

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

If your careful and use a pinpoint hot steamer you can fix the foam by the dot. Not kidding. Just did another plane I smacked with hanger rash. If you hit the decals they will come off

[@TheTruthWillBRevealed]

Did you paint the blue airliner fuselage that's sitting on the stand, with a blue acrylic paint? I know the new water based paints don't have that kind of glossy look. It's fantastic.

[@JustPlaneCrazy]

That’s my Toy Story Airliner. It’s fairly famous. Bunch of vids on my channel about all the airliners I have built. I am building the best one right now. Vids will follow the release to the owner. Yea I use Rustoleum 2x