Tom picked the Midwest Products Hobby and Craft Square for this week’s tool of the week. If you don’t have a wing jig, it can help make sure you are assembling your ribs square to the plans and can help if you’re building a square fuselage. It also has handy gauges to easily and quickly measure the thickness of your balsa, or the diameter of round rods.
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Bees, Buddy Boxes, and Biplanes
Oh, the bees! In this episode of the RC Plane Lab podcast, Ron and Tom talk about their latest trip to the field, and the overwhelming number of sweat bees they had to contend with. They also talk about what it takes to teach someone how to fly RC airplanes, and Tom’s fascination with biplanes.
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Ep 31
Tom chose a Dremel for this week’s tool of the week, and boy was that a good choice. Dremel’s come in handy all over the house, not just while building RC airplanes!
Starting the Duellist, Telemaster problems, Types of wood for building, and Listener Questions
This episode covers a lot of topics. Starting on the Duellist project, different types of wood to use when building airplanes, listener questions, to us rambling on about other things. Oh, and the Trash Can Telemaster is not finished.
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Ep 30
Tom and Ron couldn’t agree on the tool of the week for Episode 30, so they each picked their own. Ron’s tool of the week is the tool magnetizer / demagnetizer. It is an extremely handy tool that will magnetize or demagnetize your screw drivers, needle nose pliers, and a lot of other things. Ron’s son, Cody, was taking something apart and was complaining that the screwdriver wasn’t magnetized, so Ron went and got his magnetizer and made it so Cody wouldn’t drop the screws he was trying to take out. Ron’s wife, Crystal, was so impressed she decided she wanted one of her own!
Tom’s tool of the week is the servo tester. It’s another handy tool that can be used to setup airplanes or to check servos to make sure they are still good. You can manually sweep the servo with the knob, or it can automatically sweep from one end to the other to test your servos. You can also set it to be centered so you can setup your control surfaces without connecting your receiver to the servo and turning on your controller. It can run 3 servos at once.
Our First Guest, Reggie Washington
We’re excited to have our first guest, Reggie Washington, join us in studio! Reggie is a good friend of Ron and Tom’s and he has been flying RC airplanes for around 8 years. Join us to learn a little more about him and hear some funny stories.
Our first guest, Reggie Washington, picked this week’s tool of the week, the Great Planes C.G. Machine. It’s a great tool for checking the center of gravity on your airplane, which is an extremely important step in getting an airplane setup correctly for flying..
Great Planes CG Machine
The Wives Take Over the Studio!
Crystal and Lori take over for from Ron and Tom as the hosts of this episode of the RC Plane Lab Podcast! Hear the perspective from the wives that deal with the craziness of being married to guys that fly RC airplanes.
The girls each got to choose this week’s tool of the week since they took over for Ron and Tom! Crystal’s pick was the pin vise hand drill. She likes small things and uses it all the time around the house and for the garden!
Lori chose zip kicker for her tool of the week. She loves how quickly it makes CA glue set up and steals it from Tom’s workshop anytime she needs it.
Building spaces, and a few announcements
In this episode of the RC Plane Lab podcast, Ron and Tom talk about their build spaces and go over a few announcements.