Ian Jones Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 They go back to 2003, that's a lot more than the digital issues but my house is filling up. What does everyone else do with them? I think I need helpEdited By Ian Jones on 25/01/2012 15:22:40 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Cotsford Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 the bin? At one time I used to keep the mags, then I just kept interesting articles and threw the rest away, now it gets binned when I've read it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Wheatley Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 I leave em at the doctors surgery,the dentist etc.If me dad sees em first then he takes em. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggles' Elder Brother - Moderator Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Hey, I'd not thought of that - leaving them at the dentist etc - perhaps with a contact card from the club? - could be a useful way of propmoting the hobby. BEB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Wheatley Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Posted by Biggles' Elder Brother - Moderator on 25/01/2012 15:42:28:Hey, I'd not thought of that - leaving them at the dentist etc - perhaps with a contact card from the club? - could be a useful way of propmoting the hobby. BEB I got fed up reading good house keeping when i had an appointment Like you say it may even promote the hobby. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Walters Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 When you get to my age you can re-read them again and again and because you don't remember reading it the last time it's like having a new magazine for free! Seriously I like to browse them because you do forget content or didn't realise the significance of what you read earlier because your experience wasn't ready to let understand it properly. Go an pick a copy at random from at least a year ago and re-read it! Terry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cantwell Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 I have been leaving them at the various waiting rooms for ages, when i go back there, all the car mags are still there, the model ones all seem to dissapear, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Houghton Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Really, Guys! How can anyone suggest throwing out such priceless gems of aeromodelling wisdom, containing the collective thoughts of many generations of learned practitioners. The only problem I see is remembering what's in each issue. I have all mine dating back to 1973, in plastic boxes in the garage. I sometime wonder whether we should pool the resource of all forum members (volunteers of course) to produce a complete index of every issue ever published. Now then, if we all took on 3 issues each I'm sure it would soon be done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken anderson. Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 blue bin..... ken anderson ne..1... bin dept. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew767 Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Posted by Steve Houghton on 25/01/2012 17:36:42: Really, Guys! How can anyone suggest throwing out such priceless gems of aeromodelling wisdom, containing the collective thoughts of many generations of learned practitioners. The only problem I see is remembering what's in each issue. I have all mine dating back to 1973, in plastic boxes in the garage. I sometime wonder whether we should pool the resource of all forum members (volunteers of course) to produce a complete index of every issue ever published. Now then, if we all took on 3 issues each I'm sure it would soon be done! Bit of a job Steve...But a great idea. Andrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMG Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 I have every issue I have ever bought; all 16 of them! Seriously though, as a recent returnee to r/c I am finding that every issue has so much information that I am finding it difficult to remember it all. I make a point of revisiting each issue three months after I first read it, and still pick up those odd snippets which either help solve a problem or suggest a course of action in my building or flying (sorry ARTFs and crashing) and getting better at both - work that one out then! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GONZO Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Well I've kept them all from issue No1 to the present date. The first almost 20 years I have duplicates of as I was given them by a much older work collegue. The're all stored, with reasonable access, in my 5th bedroom(store room) along with the pile of unstarted kits. From time to time I pull them out and have a good read, over many weeks, and find they act as a good 'nudge' to remind me of other things that were going on in my life at those times. They also are a good source of infomation to show just how cheap and easy it all is now. Got loads of all the other aeromodelling/RC titles as well. As the saying goes 'Ah, nostalgia ain't what it used to be.' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owain Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 I take my copies (after about 6 months) in to work as there are a few guys who are not into Model Aircraft and wouldn't normally buy a copy but enjoy reading and learning about the hobby occasionally. They all seam to disappear?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty C Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Del Thats great..... I would love to find one in my health centre, But no we get Gardeners weekly amongst other tripe Rusty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve W-O Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Posted by Rusty C on 25/01/2012 18:23:35:Del Thats great..... I would love to find one in my health centre, But no we get Gardeners weekly amongst other tripe Rusty what do you expect? Health centre??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Smith 1 Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Posted by ken anderson. on 25/01/2012 17:38:49: blue bin..... ken anderson ne..1... bin dept. Hiya Ken my friend. What's this 'blue bin' business, don't tell me you get bins oop north to put your recycle paper and mags in? We just get scruffy blue bags down yer. Cheers mate Geoff ...................deprived dept. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ken anderson. Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Posted by Geoff Smith 1 on 25/01/2012 18:36:22: Posted by ken anderson. on 25/01/2012 17:38:49: blue bin..... ken anderson ne..1... bin dept. Hiya Ken my friend. What's this 'blue bin' business, don't tell me you get bins oop north to put your recycle paper and mags in? We just get scruffy blue bags down yer. Cheers mate Geoff ...................deprived dept. hello young geoff.......we are no longer running around with bearskins on up north ..... hitting each other on the heeds with clubs...we now recycle whenever possible...... to save the planet etc..... ken anderson ne..1 .... green dept. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Marsh Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 I archive them. As said, there is a good source of information that can come in handy. For example, I always wanted to build a certain model from a plan, by the late Dave Ridgeway, called the Gigolo. I finished the plane, but years later I saw the actual model that was in the magazine at a swopmeet. i bought the plane and still had the old article from the 90's. Also I look back, for nostalga. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Roger in Dubai Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Keep them all, have hundreds in my loft at our house in South Africa and have kept every issue since moving here to Dubai over 7.5 years ago. As mentioned in previous posts, always great to go back and look at "old" copies. Could not bring myself to throwing them away. If it ever came to having to get rid of them I would let the guys at the club have first refusal, after that would consider a Children's Home or something similar as you never know what spark that may kindle in the youth of today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Leave mine in Dentist waiting room with invite card to my flying club with the offer of a free & friendly intro to the hobby with a buddy-up flight. I write the same inside the magazine. BBEdited By BB on 26/01/2012 08:10:18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Green Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 BB I like that idea, do yo get many takers. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Wood Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 Leaving them in waiting rooms & children's homes is an excellent & considerate use for old mags - so much better than the local recycling centre! It's great to pick up old issues though, recently I was leafing through the April 1991 RCME (which survived a chuck-out years ago) with a beautifully finished Falcon racer on the cover. The article was a very interesting & useful read on building & finishing models. They never get chucked out anymore! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggles' Elder Brother - Moderator Posted January 26, 2012 Share Posted January 26, 2012 I think I've got the worst of all possible worlds on this. I don't throw them out - but I don't store them neatly stacked in order either! So they are are in boxes - just as I picked them up - or on shelves in various rooms around the house - random stacks. Not a cat's chance in hell of ever finding anything! I really should gather them together and sort them out....no I shouldn't life's too short BEBEdited By Biggles' Elder Brother - Moderator on 26/01/2012 10:25:25 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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