Mark Lubbock Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 This thread tends to be about what is available cheaply out there, however have you looked at what you can recycle at home?I recently scrapped a DVD/VCR combi-instead of chucking it, I cannibalised it & got a jar full of small screws, lots of wire & connectors, aluminium sheet, brackets & possibly the basis of a brushless motor.Other thoughts include Kid's toy packaging-screws, acetate sheet etc.Broken toys-timers for FF, small motors, batteries etc.Drinks cans for lithoplate.Plastic bottles for canopies.& don't forget Easter is coming soon & here are many ready made canopies up for grabs!I'm sure you can thonk of more!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alistair Taylor Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 Don't get me startedMany of the cardboard tubes used to hold cling film/tin film/greaseproof paper etc have internal diameters that exactly match the OD of speed 400 motors - instant fus!.Old credit cards make excellent epoxy resin mixing surfacesAnd if you've got a baby that's getting through a tin of milk powder a week......you've got more storage containers than you could possibly know what to do with.erm......Old laptop power supplies usually put out 12volts, often at a handy 2amps - and quietly as well!I'll think of more in timeAlistairt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard cohen Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 you are both right, i am a big fan of making fittings myself and it saves soo much cash. I always tear apart old electrical goods, esp cd players etc. The small steel or brass drive wheels are well engineered (brass cross haired wheels make small ww1 gunsights) small screws for discreet hatch and canopy fittings and jack plugs are great remote electrical connections.I have just priced up a remote glow start connection at £9.50 and after checking through my parts bin have found a 3mm jack plug and socket which is now flush fitted to underside of cowling to make an extremely neat and hidden glow start. (£10 saved and put towards a Petes Pilot for the office ! ). Microswitchs are always useful and leds and small bulbs for lamps. I know these things are only a pound or two for a pack but you add up the packs of screws or fittings in your average build and you will be shocked how much they come to. when accused of being a skinflint i just give them the 'recycling' bitrichard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Scarlett Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 The PLASTIC WASHING BOXESS make a good storage containers and the plastic around the big boxes make go hinge. Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpt Biggles Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 plastic milk bottels for fuel tanks?small 1 pint med 2 pint larg 4 pint over the top 6 pint Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alistair Taylor Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Whisky miniature bottles for small fuel tanks - Bells for circular section fuselages - Johnny Walker for shquare shection fushelagesh - Gllllennnfffidish for shemmm...sesh...shemishirclar fushellsedges Ay'm the besht pilot in the word you nooooI can loop..de loop de loop.....shidewaysh!God shave the queen! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Alistair Taylor Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 I also find that a bottle of 2003 Shiraz, once emptied, makes a perfect former for moulding nacelles.Just one short of a B52 now..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winchweight Posted July 5, 2008 Share Posted July 5, 2008 Broken rotor blades off my son's Blade CX2 make perfect epoxy stirrers.Plastic boxes (emptied first obviously) from chinese takeaways are great for storing all those little odds and endsAnd Tescos have those little multi compartment plastic boxes for 99p. I use them during a build to keep everything together once I've opened the poly bags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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