Ep 208: 2026 Toledo Wrap up, with Daniel and Reggie

[00:00:05] Hello everyone, welcome to the RC Plane Lab podcast. I’m Ron, I’m dave, I’m daniel and I’m Reggie, so it’s the toledo crew this year. We just got back late last night, not too late, but late enough. This was Reggie’s first time going to toledo and I like it. I definitely will go back. This was the rest of ours. I don’t know how many times going to toledo, third or fourth.

[00:00:37] Something in there. It’s been well. Actually, dave and daniel have gone a lot more than I have because they went to the original show back when it was not run by hank and his crew. I don’t know how many I’ve been to more than me. It’s a nice trip over to toledo. I love toledo, so let’s, should we just like start from the beginning and then just kind of go through what we thought, what was different this year, what we thought was good, what we thought was maybe not so good. Yeah, because we can cover.

[00:01:10] Everything, I think, fairly, without- yeah, without too much bias. Yeah, well, the first thing I will complain about, I’ll take a page out of dave’s book and start by complaining. Gas sucked this year. It was awful so and I’ve never had this happen the first time we stopped for fuel. This is terrible. First time we stopped for fuel it was 419 a gallon and, pulled in, paid for it, went inside to get something to eat as we came out. How much was fuel, dave? Do you remember? 25 Cents less.

[00:01:46] Yeah, 395 a gallon, so it went down 25 cents a gallon. As we were in the store, we couldn’t have been three minutes later. No, I guess we needed to be on a little bit more rudgy timing. He tried to. By the way, he tried to start it off. He did start off, yeah, and if he would have been on time we never would have seen the change, just saying, ah there, you’re welcome, you’re welcome. I guess that’s a way to look at it. But yeah, gas was expensive. This time it was. I think it had a lot to do with. I think we

[00:02:21] Spent more on fuel than we actually spent there we never did have a tally on the fuel did we.

[00:02:29] Well how many no okay quickly then how many times did we fill up I paid 95.

[00:02:34] Daniel paid, I only put eight, eight gallons in. So it was like, well, I don’t remember what it was, yeah, because you weren’t empty, you wanted to top off. So I kind of I kind of got out easy. Oh, that’s not fair. I was hoping we weren’t going to talk about that.

[00:02:48] I think I paid 96 yeah the last one right there and then we got back to nailing home about another.

[00:02:54] 70 Something. I think I was in for 60 then because I think that was the first time which could have been like 55 something had. We could have later, no, but anyway. So yeah, I didn’t listen to everybody, so that was what: 100 and calculator, it was like 300 and some odd dollars and gas, so that’s a big chunk kind of sucky, to be honest. Yeah, but granted, it was a what six hour drive or so from here. So with a trailer, with a trailer and the trailer made, I mean you have to

[00:03:27] Have a trailer, so it was windy as well, so traffic wasn’t too bad other than indianapolis. Yeah, I think that was about it. Talking to the mic got you there you go. You can move it if you want to make it.

[00:03:40] Thank you, thank me. I mean, you just move it and make it comfortable. I’m comfortable anyway. So after we got there, that was you guys can, it was our normal weight getting down the loading dock.

[00:03:55] With the exception of people parking in front of us and walking away leaving their vehicles there.

[00:04:00] Don’t leave your vehicle abandoned. Yeah, we did have a little bit of a traffic jam there because somebody, without leaving enough room for anybody to get by, just almost enough room to make it tempting, and then tried to wave us through. But that was good. Yeah, you probably could have made it with like three or four inches on either side, but it’s not worth trying. I thought the mirrors were going to come off. Well, you could have bent them in, you could have folded them. That would have been folded in. Oh, I don’t know, but no, it was tight. Don’t abandon your vehicle. Yeah, it seemed.

[00:04:36] Like the line to get in took a little bit longer this time but that also might be because I’m not.

[00:04:41] Calibrated to the times of waiting and the. The receiving area was smaller this year, so they wouldn’t be able to accommodate as many vehicles at the same time. Yeah, and we did show up earlier.

[00:04:50] This year which was nice like I guess I think it was a good time yeah leaving at four in the morning.

[00:04:55] Yay I would do it again next year you gotta give him credit though they were serious about towing.

[00:05:00] Vehicles out of there. Yeah, he was not messing around. No, he that’s. That’s his pre-show routine all the time. It’s always: get him out of here, move it or lose it. People, people like to leave them.

[00:05:13] Where they shouldn’t be left okay so this is an every year yeah and a lot of it’s not up to him I.

[00:05:18] Mean you’ve got the fire marshal sitting. I mean you got a lot of oh and there’s city officials that are pushing him, yeah, to get him out. So he has no say. He’s just trying to help people. Their cars are out there, get them moved. I mean he didn’t have to do that and they’ll just come out and they’re

[00:05:33] Gone. But yeah, did. Did you see the actual fire marshal was there? And they, no, I didn’t see him. Yeah, I heard one of the volunteers- I felt so sorry for just getting grilled- and he’s like, do you have this, do you have that? And she’s like, yes, we have that, we have this. Well, let’s go over here because that’s where this thing is. And she was taking him around and showing him stuff. I didn’t know that. Yeah, but I mean it’s a class act, like they know what they’re doing, they have it down, but I just cannot imagine the stress that goes into running something that size. With that many people, nothing ever goes smooth. No, there’s.

[00:06:04] Always hiccups and that’s. You just have to run with the punches, I guess. But I’m. There were issues, but nothing terrible, and they do a great job fixing what is going on. Yeah, yeah, I like said I don’t envy.

[00:06:21] Them I would not want to do it myself working in cardiology I do not want to take hank’s blood.

[00:06:26] Pressure. Oh, poor guy. I mean I want to know when he sleeps. I know, did you notice? By the way? I’m trying to think what? So it was the night, so it had been saturday morning. I got up and had some time to kill because you guys are sleeping. I was waiting on you, but anyway. So I was scrolling through facebook and I saw- and this was at six in the morning- and I saw he posted something and it said two hours ago. I’m like okay, so that’s 4 am. I know he was at the auction way later than I was. I.

[00:07:00] Left early. It was after 10 o’clock when we left. Yeah, yeah, it was right around 10, I think, when I left, maybe a couple minutes before, and they were not done. I mean, they still had quite a few when I left.

[00:07:11] To do they were winding down when we left yeah there was a few 10 30 11 something like that okay.

[00:07:16] But by the time they get everybody out and all that stuff, like I- yeah, I’m sure it was well after midnight, like I can’t imagine if he slept. Maybe he doesn’t even go home, maybe just holds up a table and sitting there the whole night. I don’t know. I, like I said, I he is, I don’t know how he does.

[00:07:37] It, but anyway. So first impressions, Reggie, I will go again. I’ll go against. Now, off the bucket list, I think I’ll make that a yearly thing. Yeah, bigger, smaller, what do you think? That’s the biggest one I think I’ve been to so far. Yeah, I still want to go to perry and I say, did it meet your expectations of what it was, or do you think it was going to be smaller? No, I thought it was big. I actually think it was made a little bigger than I thought it’d be, compared to what we’ve normally gone to. That’s.

[00:08:08] Probably the biggest one I think we’ve gone to I can think of all we’ve gone to in the last year.

[00:08:12] Could fit in the small exhibit hall yeah more than likely but perry is what now is next hopefully.

[00:08:18] Sometime in the next year or so hopefully if we can get around to it I mean I’m not.

[00:08:24] I that drive would just be terrible that’d be a horrible drive horrible drive and the fuel and.

[00:08:31] Yeah heels gonna have to come way down before you think about anything like that I mean it is one.

[00:08:35] Thing I’d like to do someday- we’ll see when we can fit it in. I mean, I’d like to go once, just so I can kind of see what it’s about and actually like calibrate myself to that, compared to what toledo is, compared to what we see at other places. But yeah, I don’t know about next year, but maybe one of these times, hopefully, hopefully. But yeah, I liked it, I’d, I definitely want to go.

[00:09:00] Back. I’d go back with a little bit in hand, more than likely take some things with me this time around. I tried to tell you- I know you did, but I just had no time. You stuff ready. I don’t, I don’t agree with that. We could have, I totally agree. We could have went up there and just start grabbing.

[00:09:14] Yeah, yeah, I’m sure you’re having stuff. So here’s the thing. He tells me: I don’t have time to get anything ready. Okay, you don’t have time to pull things down and pick out two planes. You want to get rid of cool whatever. But then he calls me and says: hey, I’m running up to brian’s for a battery, was it? What were you buying up there, those battery connectors? So he’s going up to brian’s for battery connectors, which, by the way, they have at the swap meet. Yeah, and he didn’t do anything on.

[00:09:46] Them till now after we’re back this is not grill Reggie I don’t know but I’m just saying like you.

[00:09:51] Had time I think I tried to talk you out of going up to brian’s to get those. I mean, I love supporting brian, but you’re going to a massive swap meet that I know is going to have your connectors which, by

[00:10:01] The way brian is there hey I’m coming can you bring those to me and I’ll meet you yeah I.

[00:10:06] Could have could have done that with him but I didn’t I was just trying to avoid some extra travel.

[00:10:10] Time for you and, yeah, five hours on the road between going and talking and coming back and looking around all that stuff that you could have got two planes together and said, hey, I’m gonna sell these. Okay, Ron, point taken, I’m not done making the point, I’m done listening to the point. Well, thank you.

[00:10:30] That might be true all right moving on but anyway somebody else talk so what were you looking for.

[00:10:37] There just anything, just something different, hopefully. New edf, which I did find a couple I did like, just was not willing to pull the trigger too quickly on it and I’m glad I didn’t tell us what you came home with, reg. No, oh, I came home with a gallon of fuel, happily, and some carbon fiber rods and a new ama membership. I’m legal yet again. Was it expired? I was getting close. I was in this month. It played okay. So, yeah, this is what we got and I got to ride with my favorite crew to and from

[00:11:14] Toledo, ohio, for my first ever big swap meet. Yes, yes, where’s the applause? There’s no applause in the background, but okay, there we go. Oh, that literally was the wrong button. Of course you would, of course.

[00:11:25] You would. Nope, nope, I don’t, seriously. We got to get those labels. Yeah, at least have a chart anyway. I think he knows them by heart. Myself I don’t. But well, we appreciate you coming along with.

[00:11:36] Those reds? Yep, I enjoy and driving. No, I’m sure I’m sure I’ve seen a little sleepy there a couple times. Yeah, maybe you want to tell you guys to use a little something here, but I kept offering.

[00:11:46] You did I’d come right back that’s fine this is from a professional driver dave snored a bit but.

[00:11:53] That’s okay. I took multiple naps on the way up. I’m glad you were comfortable. I don’t know how you did it, by the way. I looked back and it looked like if I slept like that I would not be able to turn my head for like a day and a half. Like your head was cocked back at such a weird angle, I’m like, oh my god, that.

[00:12:09] Would kill my neck. I had a jam between the seat and the window, so as long as I didn’t have any big bumps, my brain got rattled a few times. Now you see why I always fall asleep when you guys are driving.

[00:12:21] Yeah, it’s enjoyable. I couldn’t fall asleep. I just I knew if I did, a picture would be taken, and it wasn’t. It wasn’t something I was willing to risk, it would have been by me. I do feel I would have payback from when I took of you a few years ago. So I got you back.

[00:12:43] I do I got you in the camper if I remember right when we was going to joe knoll I don’t remember that.

[00:12:49] Maybe I blocked that one out. You probably did. But yeah, long drive after we got there. Like I said, we stuff unloaded. We had three tables this year and it looked a little sketchy when we first started.

[00:13:01] Putting stuff out but we got it we made it work actually really well because we forgot the.

[00:13:06] Double stack table that was on me. I’m sorry. I thought of that after I had everything loaded in the trailer and I was like it’s not worth having something happen and I’m not pulling all this stuff out to put it on the ground. But I actually think it turned out better without it than if we had it, because once we sold a couple of them, yeah, it didn’t take long. We utilized a lot of floor space.

[00:13:26] There for a little while. Yeah, well, we did acquire that fourth table when the gentleman beside us left, not when we needed it, but yeah, it was a little late, that’s true. Yeah, he brought one plane to sell.

[00:13:36] And he actually sold that friday very quickly. Oh, it was afternoon, wasn’t it? Yeah, he was there about half two-thirds of the day. He had quite a few people nibbling at it. I don’t care who nibbles, it’s the.

[00:13:45] One person that bites that matters the young man and his dad for the name of the second is joe knoll I do believe.

[00:13:50] Oh really yep that see that when I saw it so tell what it was Reggie it was a beaver of some type of.

[00:13:57] Composite body with floats it was a sizable yeah it was a big one I think he said 90 something.

[00:14:04] Inch wingspan on it. I thought it was beautiful. Yeah, I didn’t pay much attention to what it actually was. I just saw that it floats and stuff and of course, the first thing that comes to mind is that’s a joan hall plane. So I’m glad to hear somebody’s actually taking it there. He had it dressed up.

[00:14:19] Pretty nice. Yeah, I think he was asking over 16 for it and sure enough it was gone. But three, four hours after he put it up on the table, yeah, it was worth it. I mean I don’t know what it would have been new, but I think it was worth it. Oh, he said, but I even forgot what it was. It was a substantial amount. So he did it nice. He had fully loaded with everything and that was also with a dx9 radio, I believe it was.

[00:14:47] Oh I mean the radio he had it all programmed ready to go though that would be the nice part.

[00:14:54] So, anyway, trying to get all that stuff on the table, I think we did all right, yeah, and I’m gonna be honest. So we bought a tablecloth this time. So we had a, an area underneath one of the tables to hide some stuff- not really hide some stuff, but you always have, like, stuff that’s not for sale, and then when you start buying stuff, it’s nice to have a place to hide it where people aren’t. Hey, how much is that? No, that’s not for sale. So I think we’ll do that again, that it actually got full enough, that one.

[00:15:23] Of the items I had on saturday kept being asked about it and so I finally ended up just throwing it on the.

[00:15:28] Table to see if I could get rid of it. Yeah, that. Yeah, that’s because it was sitting on top of a box and you could see it. Yeah, yeah. So I ended up taking 16 planes and sold them all. I was a little concerned that not everything was going to go, but once we hit saturday, we didn’t have much left. Saturday: no, it was a. It was a weird crowd on saturday, only that there were not a lot of lookers, but like people.

[00:16:01] Would just come by and be like: I’ll take that, okay, okay, yeah. So I mean, it seemed like saturday, the buying was more fast paced, yeah, than friday. I thought, yeah, thursday was a lot of- or, excuse me, friday was a lot of looky-loos. Yeah, well, thursday too, because we all went around well.

[00:16:22] Everybody by that point, time is this stuff’s going to be gone if I don’t get it right now. Yeah, and that’s the same thing we’re doing. Yeah, and that’s the problem. You got to realize that if

[00:16:30] There’s something that you want daniel and you see it no matter what the time is you just you have.

[00:16:37] To pull the trigger and do it Reggie’s in the same boat why are you gonna bring me into this.

[00:16:41] Yeah but you lost one too the plane c was one and weren’t as cool as the one you were looking at.

[00:16:45] I know I what were you looking at? It was an albatross, albatross of some sort. It was balsa balson film. Nice looking, was it? Was it? I can’t remember. Was it electric? It was electric.

[00:17:02] Electric I mean it was nice it came with batteries but it was just is that the flying boat no that.

[00:17:08] Wasn’t for sale. Well, oh yeah, you’re whatever. The flying bathtub, the bathtub, yeah, I’m sorry. Yeah, not. No, this one was an operator biplane we saw like first thing friday morning, but it was just it was too early to drop that kind of money because I didn’t know what else was going to be there now. If it would have been later in the day I would probably went back and got it, yeah, but it was.

[00:17:37] Gone like shortly yeah it was like a half hour after yeah I mean it was it wasn’t going to stick.

[00:17:42] Around oh here’s my question when do you determine to buy right now versus wait it out and take the.

[00:17:49] Chance. If you’re taking, if you’re willing to lose it, yeah, then you can wait. If it’s something that’s like, man, I gotta have that, you just do it, because, yeah, it’s gonna be gone at that point, then you might.

[00:17:59] Have got the lower price when he thinks he’s not going to sell it that’s how much but we knew this.

[00:18:04] Wasn’t. I mean I knew it wasn’t. It was there. I mean I knew it wouldn’t. It wasn’t priced bad. It just was like I don’t know what else I’m gonna run across. Run across, I mean, literally, this was like the first or second row we had just gone down, I mean so and I, I, I knew, I knew it wouldn’t be around. I mean it was a good price it was, but for some reason, if it would have been there, I would have

[00:18:28] And that’s the problem with swap meets like I, I don’t if there, if there’s a plane I want and I know I want it, I don’t wait to see if the price is going to go down, because you can haggle that.

[00:18:43] Negotiate your price right then and there on the spot and the only price that’s good is the price.

[00:18:47] That you’re happy paying and they’re happy getting for whatever the plane is and I think it was a fair.

[00:18:52] Price what he was asking. I mean it was definitely. I mean, yeah, that wasn’t the problem. I guess I could have got it, and if I would have saw something, I guess I could put it on the table, because it would have been gone again. I mean I guess I could have done it that way, but yeah, I don’t know, it was just too early and I hadn’t even gone through the whole show yet to see what else was there. I guess I’m

[00:19:11] Gonna add on saturday generally that’s when you start seeing the slash marks through the price.

[00:19:15] Day, saturday morning- everybody’s about 50 to 100 bucks, but you don’t know what’s going to be there saturday. I mean, that’s the problem. Like it may have already gone, can go very quickly, and that’s, that’s the funny thing. Like you have an airplane that you don’t think is going to sell for some reason, and then all it takes- I mean it could sit there for a day and a half and all it takes is one person to come by. 30 Seconds later they’re handing you cash and they’re taking the.

[00:19:40] Plane and it’s like: oh, I guess that had it close to. Yeah, I didn’t think we’re gonna go. I mean, we sold something I didn’t think we’re gonna sell anyway and it eventually went away. What was that, that bear?

[00:19:54] Fuselage we had. Oh, the cub, or no, no, no, no, no, no wing, oh yeah, so I would have never guessed, I would have gone, well, but you never, because, well, tell the story of what that was first off and then.

[00:20:11] We can talk so I found this plane a few aisles over from where we were basically I bought it for the.

[00:20:19] Motor yeah a nice little four stroke was it 20 25 26 yeah four stroke I wanted for the motor.

[00:20:28] They told me they it was an estate, estate sale. It was a guy, it was nasty. Yeah, it was. There is an older. What was it? A fly baby. No, no fly. Do you remember something? 1941, Fly baby. I thought it said fly baby 1941. Maybe that I gotta see if I have my search history, but anyhow they didn’t have the wing to it. So basically they sold it to me for the motor, which that’s what I wanted. So I went back to our table, I pulled the motor off of it- really cheap, yeah, really cheap. So pulled the motor, thought:

[00:21:03] Well, I’ll stick a price on it, see what happens. So I put it back on the floor for 10 bucks, set all day, didn’t, didn’t move, didn’t move. Right at the end of the friday, yeah, the end of friday, right before the show closed, some guy looked at and he was really, really interested in it, thought he was going to take it, walked away. Saturday morning we go- and I thought, well, this, this isn’t going to go anywhere. So I went ahead and pulled the servos out that were in there- they were older servos- and then had what was it? Is it an orange? Yeah, an orange receiver, which I mean it’s not worth.

[00:21:37] Anything, but I’ve got a, some foamies. I could have put it in would have worked. You got a fish? Yeah, I got a foam fish, so that’s that’s actually where it was going to go. So I took all that out. I said it, said it behind. Well, me and Ron started talking. He found the plans for the wing on outer zone. Yeah, the idea was it was going to go to the free table. Yeah, it was going to go to the free table. Then Ron found the plans for the wing. So that was an easy wing because it was the same rib over and over and over. Yeah, and it was. It was a cool plan. I mean, yeah, it was a cool plan and there was nothing.

[00:22:09] Really wrong with the rest of it, just no wing. So I thought, well, maybe I will keep it and just download the plans, cut them out, whatever. So I put it behind the table and as soon as I did that, here comes the guy that was looking at it the night before. He said, oh, did you get rid of the, the plane that you had ten dollars on? I said, no, it’s sitting right here and he goes. Well, I’ll take it. So, so off it went. So, of course, I gave him back the servos and the orange receiver, because that’s

[00:22:37] Kind of what he was wanting out of it. So well, and what I find funny, though, is we were walking around later and either found the wing that would go on it, that was just in the bones, nobody had covered it.

[00:22:50] Or one that was close enough. Well, he said he was going to go look for a wing. Okay, when he walked away with it, he goes: I’m gonna go over and see if I can find a wing. Now there was another table which, I mean, you dug through. Yeah, there was a pile of wings, so, and some of them kind of kind of close.

[00:23:07] But maybe it was close enough. Yeah, from what we saw on the plans, it was just a the old school dihedral like single wing panel on either side, that no ailerons, nothing like that. Yeah, and there.

[00:23:20] Was a couple of them on that table that looked like that I would have never. I mean, like I said, it was getting ready to go to the free table, but then it was coming back home with me and then I think david was relieved. Probably so because he kept saying: you got enough to do. You got enough to do. You’ve got a plane you’ve been working on for four years, I think you’re- oh, just four? No, maybe it’s been.

[00:23:42] Longer now I was gonna say that’s nothing five or six maybe it’s been a while it’s getting there.

[00:23:50] But so yeah I would never guessed I would have went so it even made the cheap motor even cheaper.

[00:23:56] So, yeah, and really it does save you a little bit of work. You don’t have to worry about, yeah, building the wing and all that stuff. He’s right, so it would have been sitting in, yeah, my shop. He’s right, you do have enough projects, but I get it. You can always add more, I know, so I’m trying, you can.

[00:24:15] Always take back there’s always next year well I might get into this so I’ll take it back.

[00:24:20] Yeah, no, I get it. Yeah, so throughout saturday we saw, or not saturday, throughout friday we saw a good crowd, but I don’t think like I didn’t get the same feeling of being overwhelmed by the amount of people as we did last year. We know it was much more spaced out, it was more steady but less.

[00:24:52] Less big rush, right, because it was always in the past. Always, nine o’clock came, you gave it four or five minutes and you had a wave. Here comes a big wave of people, the tidal wave of people coming in.

[00:25:03] Yeah, because a lot of times people would come, I mean, a few of them would kind of start with the vendors that are up front. But I think they realize that what the vendors have, the vendors are going to have for the duration if they brought enough, and so they’re after more of the swap meet. The swap meet find treasures- I mean, it’s the one-off gems- right, and get there before anybody else. So yeah, I was. I was kind of surprised we didn’t have that huge, like I didn’t realize the show had started.

[00:25:34] For quite a while, because there’s always people walking around, like even before it starts. You have the vendors, you have the, the swappers and stuff, because we’re all looking around at other people’s tables and we all get in early and, yeah, and we were able to get in a couple hours early to get set up and stuff, so it didn’t actually hit me that it was after nine because and then the tidal wave just didn’t hit right. And then it’s like, oh, there’s a few extra people. And you look, it’s like, oh, okay, so okay, we’re open. Strange that there’s not like it was last year, but, like I said, it was steady. I felt like

[00:26:07] It was steady most of the day yeah it had the same number of people coming by for an hour yeah it.

[00:26:13] Wasn’t that big wave where people couldn’t walk down the aisle right and pushing and shoving yeah, jostling, yeah, and that’s always the worst part, kind of Reggie? Going back to what you were talking about, you get a lot of people looking, you get a lot of people asking prices, you get a lot people saying I may be back for that, and sometimes they come back and it’s gone. Sometimes they come.

[00:26:37] Back and it’s there. Sometimes they don’t even come back, so I’m not holding it for you while you’re thinking about it. Yeah, if somebody comes up here and wants it, it’s gone. Sorry, right, one guy was.

[00:26:46] Looking at the a10, he did take 50 from somebody, or was a, it was the f-22- and he came back at the very last moment to get it. But he had marked the price at 50 bucks right then and there. At that point. So I guess he thought he could probably get another 50 out of it versus somebody if they didn’t come back. But he already told the guy: if you did not come back, that 50 is now mine and that’s where

[00:27:10] It left yeah well he came back that’s unusual that usually does not happen yeah I have never.

[00:27:18] I’ve never seen that inquired about a plane and then, well, I’ve got a down payment on it already, so it’s always been: no, it’s sold, and they usually have sold written on or something like that. But, yeah, we hold stuff people all the time. Well, yeah, because it’s right, sold and their first name on it and come back, yeah. I mean, I think that’s just a courtesy, because you don’t want to have to carry around, especially if it’s a big plane or something like that. If you’re just getting there, you don’t want to have to carry that around to go through all the tables and all that stuff before.

[00:27:48] You, yeah, and we’ve got no problem there- say, hey, can I leave it? No problem? Yeah, we did have a problem. That last stand I sold to daniel’s. He, daniel, had some 3d printed aircraft stands and the guy bought it, paid for it and left it. That’s fine. He couldn’t find us. Oh, he had thought we had packed up and left, but he was wandering around all over the place trying to find the stand. He couldn’t remember where he got it from. Wow, I didn’t know that. Yeah, I didn’t either. I forgot to.

[00:28:13] Tell you guys about that. I mean, yeah, that’s kind of one of those things that where you ought to pay attention, I guess, yeah, you’re like where your stuff is, that you bought, I get you get focused and

[00:28:21] You I mean I found things and it’s like okay where what which row was that in yeah and.

[00:28:27] You got to go back up and down the rows and try to find it. Do what annoys me. I don’t understand like we went through that place multiple times and yet I still see people carrying airplanes around that you didn’t see. That I didn’t see. And I saw one of them. I don’t even remember what it was. It was like a was. That was american airlines? Yeah, it was. It was smaller, it was a twin silver. Yeah, I’ve seen it. It was dc3. Oh, okay, it was. I only saw just bits, but I noticed it had like a.

[00:29:01] 65 Price tag and I’m like I don’t remember seeing that- if I would have seen for that price. Yeah, from what it looked like it was, and it was a green one sitting across from this is a silver one-

[00:29:12] I know I’m not saying there was a green one that sat across from us for the longest and I went to go see about it and it was gone green, but it was a. I want to say it was a dc3 as well. I don’t remember seeing that one either. It was just past dave. Maybe it’s past your what or past his what, his tiger jet that was over on the stand. Oh, not his, but well, we tried to get him tried. Yeah, it was just to the left of that where it sat on the table for a while. Maybe I do remember. But the thing is, how many? How?

[00:29:45] Many of the stuff maybe people are going back out to the cars I’ve got spots now they go out get it.

[00:29:50] Bring back that’s the reason you make multiple passes throughout the day and people move.

[00:29:54] Things around. Are they catching them getting another trailer? Yeah, that’s true too. When you see stuff coming in, you gotta before they even get to the table. Hey, I’ll take that. So, anyway, moving on. Moving on, what else? You want to talk about what you bought? We didn’t buy much this year. No, I sold everything. I.

[00:30:15] Had but didn’t buy much I’m actually only spent 105 more than what I brought so yeah I came out ahead.

[00:30:24] Because I sold everything and just bought well three so yeah I didn’t come out ahead.

[00:30:30] Yeah I’m I didn’t come out bad though yeah I mean so yeah I’m 105 down from what I brought with me.

[00:30:37] So not bad no did you renew your membership no I thought that was something you was wanting to do.

[00:30:43] There. Well, okay. So here’s the thing with that, usually, like last year when we went, they had- I don’t know what the discount was- 10 or 15 off. Right, I didn’t need to do it last year, but because of that I renewed for two more years. I think I’m good through like 2028 right now. Okay, so I don’t need to, but I was planning on it if there was a discount, but they ended the discounts this year so there was no show discount to sign up or anything like that. So I mean why there’s no real there’s no reason to do it now, other than maybe I’d save money when the

[00:31:17] Prices go up on it again when did they go up this last time every year I was gonna I haven’t paid.

[00:31:24] Attention, I don’t even know what it is now. It’s 168. For two years it was 90. I bought one year it was 90, okay, and our field’s 90, so it costs me 180 bucks a year to throw away airplanes.

[00:31:38] And it’s worth it. But yeah, like I said I just I don’t need to yet, so that’s why I didn’t do it. I did it on the way back and there’s no reason not to when it comes to about somewhere in ohio. I did it. Yeah, it’s sitting in the back seat bored. I had six hours to deal with it, so I found a little gym.

[00:32:01] Sitting, or Ron kind of found a little gym for me sitting on the stand a couple aisles away from us, nice little park zone, foxwolf, 190 for ten dollars. Oh, and the guy wasn’t around. That was. Was that thursday night? Thursday, it was thursday afternoon. Yeah, you found it and the guy wasn’t around. I thought, okay, first thing in the morning I’m gonna find this guy.

[00:32:26] And get it bought and of course he wasn’t around, made a couple passes and finally his buddy was there, was able to call him, and then he wasn’t gonna sell it to me. He’s like: now, you price that at ten dollars. Really, you price it at ten dollars. It’s like, yeah, yeah, okay. So he said: well darn, if I knew that I would have just taken it. It’s worth ten dollars. Yeah, so I got a park zone foxwolf 190 for ten dollars as a rebuild project. That was an fw 190 -huh, how did that? I guess I didn’t pay.

[00:32:57] Much attention. I just saw. Okay, it’s rough but it’s ten dollars. Yeah, it had all the parts. It might be worth nine dollars now I don’t know if daniel’s gonna tell on me, so I guess I shall. I wasn’t I. I said I wouldn’t say a thing. I didn’t notice the squish on it when I bought it. And there’s a squish. No, it’s not that. Not that something might have happened to the, the elevator on one side when I was, because I we were carrying everything out and it just like hit on my arm a.

[00:33:29] Little bit and went tink and bent a little bit, so I mean it didn’t break off, but it’s. It’s gonna need some. Yeah, there was a pop. There was a pop noise. I wasn’t gonna say that, though, so yeah, well, you’re.

[00:33:40] Telling on yourself but I told you I wouldn’t say anything I said I didn’t hear anything I didn’t.

[00:33:44] See anything I was waiting to say oh it must have been when Reggie did bump or something.

[00:33:49] Well, it did end up in the back of the trailer all by itself. It did slide. Somehow it slid from the front of the trailer and I don’t know, because you never took off fast. So, yeah, it must have just been bouncing over 300 miles. It must have just finally worked its way to the back door. But good old indiana.

[00:34:04] Roads. And what’s funny is when dave opened the door after we got home and he said, well, that’s all the way in the back, I was like, oh, there’s my cover, but no, I will come clean. It’s not that big of a deal to me, you’ll be able to fix it. Wow, it’s not.

[00:34:19] Like I’m gonna have to not go over this entire airplane anyway yeah it’s I mean it must have been.

[00:34:24] Like that when you bought it and you just didn’t notice it’s no but the front of it the what was.

[00:34:29] It the left side or the right side right side I noticed that when I was looking at it looked a.

[00:34:33] Little more crunched. I thought possibly I did that when I was trying to figure out how to get the wing off of it. Okay, oh, then we’ll go that way. Yeah, you must have did. I know it was crunched and there’s there’s some old epoxy there that’s really yellowed okay. So I did see that, but it didn’t look that crunched. Yeah, so I may have done that. A little heat, it’ll be all right, it’s. It’s back in the day when park zone was making a really lightweight foam- they’re not much structure to them. Yeah, they had a basically a plastic crutch in them and then everything else is just wrapped around it. It’s fine. So I don’t know. If you guys want to see a rebuild series on that, I will. Yeah.

[00:35:09] You should do that. Try to do a photo session with it as I rebuild it. Don’t forget to take pictures when you’re doing it. Don’t take, I need to make a sign timer on your phone, ding, ding, ding, yeah. So anyway, take a picture. Breathe, when I get a few other old projects taken care of, we’ll dig into the foxwolf 190 and try to document it as we go and get that posted. Good idea, I like that idea. I was thinking about that but I didn’t want to call you out on it. We’re going to not call this one trash to treasure. This one’s going to be junk to treasure. This is well, we hope, treasure, I guess junk to less.

[00:35:43] Junk, maybe junk to less junk, yeah, no, it should be pretty good by the time you get done with it, because cosmetically it’s really rough, but structurally- up until the tail got broken off, I’m sure it was.

[00:35:52] Fine didn’t really get broken off yeah it’s not broken off I wouldn’t fly it like this held on.

[00:35:58] With duct tape. Maybe, speaking of duct tape, no, what was there duct tape? I don’t remember. Maybe it was already broken. I know it actually does have some tape on it. Back in the day park zone had you secure the tail with tape, so it’s just on. Maybe that’s like double-sided tape. No, it’s just like.

[00:36:15] Thick cellophane tape. It runs along the seam. Yeah, so well, maybe that’s all it’s broke. Maybe I’m lucky, maybe you just pop the tape loose. I don’t know, I don’t care, I gotta go look through it anyway. Yeah, I mean, I honestly the fuselage is split with age, so I gotta cut it apart and finish re-gluing it anyway, so it’s not gonna matter. Yeah, well, I felt bad, but I had so much in.

[00:36:36] My hands that I couldn’t really look at it and then, honestly, by the time we got down and started loading stuff up, it went out of my mind. Yeah, the only thing I really cared about was my boat making sure.

[00:36:44] My boat didn’t get damaged your boat did not get damaged I don’t know what that means.

[00:36:51] One in the box no but I don’t know what your whistle was if it’s damaged I don’t know oh it’s not oh.

[00:36:56] Oh, just, I don’t know this story. I just want to make sure he picked it up, that he had his hand under it so it didn’t slide out of the sleeve. Yeah, well, I love it got back in one piece it was. It’s been all over the world. It lives in the back of my travel trailer. It’s fine, it bounces around all.

[00:37:13] Over the place. Well, I want to talk about that in a little bit. Let’s get through the rest of what we bought and that kind of stuff. Then we will end on that and also: yeah, okay, so let’s start with what we ended up coming home with, in addition to what dave was just talking about, what

[00:37:30] Else, did you get dave? I ended up buying an ra cores blue fo, blue ufo. I don’t know what they call it- blue, I think. Blue fo, blue fo. I ended up getting one of those. I was going to order one I was watching some videos online six, eight months ago and I was going to order one from and I went to order it and they didn’t have any because apparently his laser went down and there were some issues. I had actually completely forgot about it and I kind of thought, ah, I normally see him in toledo anyway, yeah, so I ended up stopping by and picking up one of the blue fo’s on the way

[00:38:01] Out yesterday, having to run across you, and you also made a purchase from our right course. I’ll let you get to that a bit. Yeah, we can talk about that when you’re done. No, we’re good. I also- I don’t know if you guys are following along about my rc10 project- I did a restoration on rc10. It turned out being a kind of a collectible version. Turned out nicer than you wanted. Yeah, planned on, it was a little bit of a rare bird and it turned out nice, so I didn’t really want to run it. And the guy a couple aisles over from us actually had an rc10 sitting there.

[00:38:36] That was in rougher condition, although it’s actually in pretty decent shape, so I ended up buying it for way less than I could have bought it on ebay. So I now have a rc10 for a restoration as a runner. What was that body on that? It was like a 55 chevy body, so I thought:

[00:38:55] That was. I was mounted with glue sticks. I saw that, yeah, that was awesome. Actually I don’t, I don’t get it, but that’s the ultimate hack right there. So, as the body mounts- yeah, that’s the body mounts- they used sticks of glue that are supposed to be ran through a hot glue gun and just screw to screw into the top and bottom, to self-tapping screw right into the top and bottom.

[00:39:18] Of the glue stick, which actually was working pretty well. But I was a little concerned about if they ever had it out in the heat, because it was a black body and out in the sun it would get hot enough to start melting the glue. I’m a low rider and those sticks would get soft too. So that body must have, and it only had two of them on one front, one rear, so that body was, I’m sure, swaying.

[00:39:36] All over the place I almost wonder if that was one they just did for a quick display like I can’t.

[00:39:41] Imagine running it at all like that. Yeah it, I’m sure it wouldn’t have stayed put. Yeah, one good wreck, and I’m sure it would have just pulled the screw right out of the glue, especially if it was a warm day. Yeah, interesting, but it is a. It’s a later build cadillac car, so something a lot more common car, something I don’t feel bad about playing with, like cadillac car, what do you mean? Rc10s were built in two different places. The early cars came from edinger ellinger avenue in california.

[00:40:16] And then later production cars came from cadillac avenue they moved their facilities.

[00:40:24] I know it’s a collector thing and no one knows what I’m talking about. Yeah, my first car was a very early ellinger car. It’s got the early shocks on it, the lighter colored pan. Just get the mechanical speed control with it- still quite a bit rarer car- and the pan had almost no scratches on it. So it was. It’s a nice car, so well when you’re done. I have a question. And then the cadillac cars were much more common later production cars. This one is

[00:40:57] In rougher shape. The pan’s got a lot more scratches on it, although I’ve got a lot of duct tape residue to scrape off. Apparently they put duct tape on the bottom trying to protect the pan from scratches, and it must be 30 year old tape because I’m having trouble getting it off.

[00:41:16] But I have some 3m adhesive remover you might want to try I did something this morning.

[00:41:22] And I think it’s going to work. I sprayed it down with some goo gone which didn’t touch it, yeah, but it reacted with the tape and I can use a plastic razor blade or a master air screw propeller- whichever- to scrape it off without scratching the car. It looks like it’s doing a pretty good job, so I’ve

[00:41:41] Got it sitting in goo gone right now. Do you have a plastic scraper or a scraper blade thing? I don’t, but I’ve got a lot of master air screw propellers. Well, remind me, because I bought a whole set of them for something I was doing, so I can give you one. Oh, I don’t need, thanks, but make a note because, okay, I’m not gonna remember scraper. Yeah, so go on. And then I just bought a bunch of miscellaneous.

[00:42:02] Screws from micro fasteners. Doing my yearly refill this year, I just remembered to bring the entire box with me, instead of calling my wife in a pack and said: send me a picture of the box.

[00:42:11] We also found one of the vendors had a miscellaneous box of metric screws and body pins and all kinds of different car hardware in it for dirt cheap. Yeah, I got one of those too. Yeah, it’s a nice little assortment, you couldn’t not. Yeah, for the price he was asking for. It comes in a nice little divider box. Couldn’t pass it up for the money, yeah. And then I realized it wasn’t sealed. It’s like: oh, please don’t drop it. Yeah, he didn’t realize they weren’t sealed either. So, yeah, and I got some receivers from free sky, just because it’s nice to go talk to steve, and that was pretty much all.

[00:42:46] I bought besides renewing my ama yeah not a not a heavy year going home so the trailer was full.

[00:42:56] Going over and pretty much could have been empty on the way back yeah we had everything in the truck.

[00:43:00] On the way. Yeah, yeah, pick up the trailer, including not just the stuff we got, but all of our luggage and stuff are from the hotel too, which that reminds me hotel. You guys, this is your first time staying on site. What are your thoughts? Let’s start with dave first, because I’m sure dave has a unique

[00:43:20] Perspective on this I’m fine staying there if that’s where you guys want to stay but I don’t like.

[00:43:26] Paying that much for a room. Okay, I like being there. Yeah, I mean it was. It was nice to go back and forth to the room, to the hotel we were there. I mean we parked Reggie’s truck and we didn’t move it all weekend long, yeah, so there was no fighting for parking space. It was getting up driving a half hour to the show, driving back to the hotel. I mean, if we wanted to go to the room to grab something, walked up to the room grab something. Yeah, especially with the, with the auction being friday night too, that was a.

[00:43:58] Big nice to be there right there so you can walk out of the auction go back up to the room.

[00:44:04] When you were done, or yeah, and I didn’t even think that you’re right. So, like Reggie ended up leaving, I think, before the rest of us did, I mean, like you were the first, well, and I get it like, but it was nice he didn’t have to wait for everybody to be ready, or for his ride, or wait for us, because or you

[00:44:21] Or we felt like hey we need to go because Reggie right falling asleep because yeah and then I had to.

[00:44:26] Listen to that. The next day, yeah, yeah, we had to leave because of you, right? Yeah, all right. Yes, there’s a convenience to it, but y’all know I’m cheap. Yeah, well, I’ll pay for it next year. I mean, it was I, I.

[00:44:37] Liked it yeah I definitely liked it I would I would do that from now on and there’s enough stuff.

[00:44:42] Downtown eatery. I mean I took all in walking distance I. I took all this food and we never did open lunch meats I mean, but there’s plenty of stuff down there to go eat. I mean it’s.

[00:44:53] All within walking distance except for those who want to ride a scooter yeah absolutely it was the.

[00:44:59] Best eight dollars. I spent the whole weekend. We got laughs out of it, so that was well worth eight dollars for us too. Yeah, so I in springfield is not like this downtown. I don’t think, I don’t.

[00:45:10] Know downtown springfield very often they had bicycles at one time but that didn’t last long.

[00:45:14] Who wants to do that? That’s peddling, but anyway. So they have. Like literally just as you’re walking down downtown toledo, these scooters are just like sitting everywhere, like you look up, like

[00:45:27] Kids, bicycles at a playground, exactly. I mean just everywhere you look they’re. They’re just the random, they’re almost a hazard because they just leave them sitting in the middle of the.

[00:45:35] Sidewalk. They do absolutely, so I was intrigued, so I tried to scan the app thing and figure out what it was. And it turns out- and I’m sure a lot of people know this, but having not done it before you download the app, long story short, for a 30 minute ride so you can use it for a half hour, is eight dollars and sixty cents or something after taxes and all after everything.

[00:45:58] That’s not a continuous half hour you can break that up into multiple trips right so that’s half.

[00:46:02] Hour of being on the scooter. For what 24 hours? It was supposed to be 24 hours but it actually lasted like 36 I think, because I didn’t get the notification, notification saying that it was over until the next, like 36 hours after. We did that for that first night, because it was thursday night that I did it and I got the notification saturday, but anyway. So, yeah, we, we walked four blocks or so, I think, is what the what? The spaghetti warehouse was where we started, and on the way back I was like I really

[00:46:36] Don’t want to walk, let’s just go ahead and do this. So I, I, I, I did it and stuff. And it’s cool because all you do is you scan the code on there after you have the app and you say start your ride, and then it beeps and says ready to go. So you just literally hop on and just go and then I left it right outside the parking garage, which is where we walked into the hotel, and when you get off you say end ride on the app and then you have to take a picture of it. I guess you’re making

[00:47:08] Sure, it’s like left somewhere, okay, or whatever. And then it even says on there it’s, this is a good place to leave it, and then your ride is over, so don’t live in the middle of the street. I wonder.

[00:47:19] What would have happened if you would have took the picture of it in the middle of the street I.

[00:47:22] Wonder if it would have told you to move it I don’t know maybe I should have tried that yeah.

[00:47:26] Probably told you something about being responsible for whatever happens to it well that could be.

[00:47:29] Too, we’ll charge your credit card. Yeah, hey, dummy, if you, if somebody hits this, you’re paying for it. But anyway, so then the next morning, when we are not morning, when was it, was it?

[00:47:38] Yeah it was next no afternoon no afternoon we went for supper so we went out and that was still.

[00:47:44] Sitting right I can’t believe it was still sitting in the exact same spot I know so I was like oh I.

[00:47:48] Know what I’m doing I was about 10 to 15 of those from the time we went to spaghetti warehousing back.

[00:47:55] Just sit around and you feel like, though getting on is like, am I taking somebody’s scooter? I mean, are they in there, are they in the bar getting something to eat? And then you hop on their scooter and they come out and it’s gone out. I guess that’s how it is, but I guess then they just walk to find.

[00:48:09] Another one and on the app it tells you where they were and in that downtown, oh, it did like, yeah, it had a map and showing, oh, that’s not like you would have to go far to find another one everywhere. Yeah, I think there was 178 as well. I didn’t know. You knew that around there. Yeah, so it tells you where they are and stuff. That’s cool. But anyway, yeah, so long story short, the next day we did it again and then, after you did it again, I did it again and then, after we finished eating, I ended up taking it just on a tour downtown and I, in the amount of time it took you guys to

[00:48:39] Walk back, by the way, because you got a gimp walking along with you. Well, oh, stop. And we stopped and looked at the ball game. It was a one-legged man, but anyway. So I went down like by the riverfront and all that kind of stuff, and you went that far down. Oh yeah, damn, see, we just.

[00:48:55] Thought. We saw you turn, we thought you just went back to the hotel. No, we thought you went to the front door of the hotel. And then, when we saw you coming back, I thought: well, you come looking for us.

[00:49:03] Because we’re taking. No, actually I wasn’t even planning on seeing you guys. I figured I was gone so long that you would have been all the way up in the hotel and stuff. By now we had stopped and

[00:49:12] Watched the ball game and I had some photos I wanted to take of the ballpark and so forth yeah.

[00:49:16] I mean, which cool, that’s fine, go bad hens. But like I think it was a little over a mile, almost a mile and a half, because it tells you how far you go to and how long you run. It also like that I.

[00:49:29] Actually was on that thing. Did it tell you about the battery, for how much in life is still left in them? I didn’t pay attention. I don’t think so, but I will say I was getting close to my 30 minutes.

[00:49:39] And I was getting afraid. That’s why I came back as soon as I did, because I was getting. I was getting afraid that I was going to be stuck like a mile away and then have to spend another eight bucks. So I guess maybe I am a little cheap. Dave, it’s rubbing off. It must a little bit, but anyway, yeah. So I honestly have to say that was pretty close to the highlight of my, and you saw a lot of people.

[00:50:01] Come out of the bars with the bags, their carry out bags, the food, get on it off they go. Yeah, I mean it’s a no-brainer, wouldn’t you? And I guess, if you do live downtown, I mean I, I assume there’s apartments downtown like we do here. But yeah, you jump on that. Go down, grab something to eat.

[00:50:17] Come back I mean, yeah, it could be cheaper than uber. Oh, I’m sure it probably is, because actually, if you, if you, you can buy, like there was something on there, I think you can get hour passes. I mean that was just the lowest one, obviously, yeah, and then the more you get, the cheaper it becomes per minute. But I’m sure eight dollars for half an hour is not. I didn’t think so. I mean, obviously you can.

[00:50:38] Get a lot done in half an hour. And the thing is: yeah, half hour, I mean, how many airplanes can you carry back and forth spaghetti warehouse back to the hotel you’re talking? And that was the thing. On a scooter, I mean a couple minutes you’re there. So the first time was three minutes. Yeah, exactly so.

[00:50:54] That’s why you tooled around a little bit. Yeah, I did so. Yeah, probably didn’t need it, but, like I said, that was fun, just kind of going around and exploring a little bit, which I never would have.

[00:51:03] Done just walking around I am thinking though it’s like how gross and when’s the last time they.

[00:51:09] Sanitized the handlebars on those things. Oh see, you think that, about that, and I think that more about like, when I’m at a restaurant eating, you set your soda down on it and then you go to pick it up and it just sticks to the table, yeah, and it’s like I really want some salt on here, but I’m not touching that. So that’s that’s where I get your, and it’s a side effect of working in the medical, yeah, industry. It’s just like gross. I get it, like I’m not a germaphobe, but neither am I, but that’s just. There are times where I’m like, yeah, no, not, you could wear driving gloves if you, if you were worried about it. These are my cycling gloves, yeah, and you just throw them away. Yeah, just keep.

[00:51:46] I’ll have to grab some gloves and work next time we go I have some I should have just brought well I.

[00:51:50] Didn’t expect to be doing. Well, maybe next year we’ll I’ll try. You gonna try it with me? Yeah, I just I think you should. I wasn’t. I mean, I already got wrist problems to begin with. That’s all I needed. Just don’t fall off, I mean, it’s not. I mean, did you ever feel like the bumps on the sidewalk, like you?

[00:52:04] Were it looked there was. There was one time where it like was jarring, but it wasn’t anything, but it made me think I’m gonna fall or fall off. No, I know, like a skateboard and you hit a crack, that it tries, and I mean it had, yeah, it’s suspension. It had suspension and stuff on it too, and the tires felt like they were under inflated, which makes it easier for riding too. So, yeah, no, it was. I never felt unsafe or felt like, yeah, you look totally stable on it. Yeah, you should try. I mean, come on, daniel, you’re.

[00:52:35] Doing tricks, you’re. You call that a trick, you’re one. Legging it. For me that’s life. But he just shown that you could do it. Look at me, I’m dave. Yeah, I could do it, that’s not a problem, but I can’t hang. Take my crutches with me, so whenever I got where I was going, I would have no transportation.

[00:52:53] If you- I mean seriously, like if you ever want to do that, just let me know, because with two legs you can put them like between your legs as you’re standing and do it. I mean, I wasn’t.

[00:53:03] Saying that to be mean, but I’m just saying, yeah, yeah, I would absolutely help you out. Oh, I could certainly, like I said, certainly do it. It’s just, if I were to come to a stop, it would have kind of

[00:53:11] Sucked, yeah, you make it work. Fall over, ding, ding. Wow, yeah, I’ve seen there. Now we need to figure out: next year, take a wagon, we can put the white, the planes, and then haul them down to the trailer. Oh, the planes. I thought you meant for dave. Well, that’s, yeah, I guess we could have done that too. I didn’t think of that. But I’m thinking your crutches, I’m thinking that we, we buy planes because we parked what four or five blocks down with the trailer. That was, yeah, boom, you take the.

[00:53:38] Load the wagon up drag them down to the that was the other thing I was able to go down and check on.

[00:53:43] The trailer and make sure it was nice. Thank you for that. I could just see somebody coming up with a trailer hitch for one of those things and actually lug your trailer back and forth with that. On little stupid scooters I mean, yeah, I wouldn’t call it a stupid scooter, I’d call it a scooter. But

[00:53:57] Well, if it worked, yes and so, okay. So that’s the difference too in parking this year. So I feel like every year the trailer parking gets further and further away. Right, like a couple years ago it was awesome because literally, like Reggie, I know you weren’t there before- so when this was a lot smaller back, where we, I’m trying to think, unloaded- yeah, but I’m trying to think if I can explain where. So I would probably say: what do you think? Come back four or five sets of tables. They have the area then. So, like from the back, okay, when we came in, take away four or five sets of.

[00:54:35] Tables, and then there was a place that they could roll a wall out. That wall was there the first year we went, and then that whole area behind there. Actually, was it the first or it doesn’t matter- one of the years we went, that whole area behind there. You parked your trailer inside. It was two years ago.

[00:54:52] Because it was the first year I had my Nissan truck yep I’ve had the truck two years so it wasn’t.

[00:54:58] Last year- it was a year before, so, yeah, we were able to park inside, which was awesome. Any plane you bought, you literally just walked it in to the trailer, right back to the trailer. You didn’t have to go anywhere, you didn’t have to go in the elevators, you didn’t do any of that stuff. It was all there in there for you. And the other thing that made that very nice is when the when we left, nobody was loading. They were just pulling and hooking up and leaving, so you were getting in and out very fast.

[00:55:22] Last year trailer park in there and the fire marshal had a problem with that right yeah so.

[00:55:28] That’s never going to happen again. Yeah, because he threw a fit once he found out the trailers were still in there, which I don’t know why. Because there’s well, you can have gasoline in the. I guess you could have gasoline in the, in the cars but or in the trailers. But yeah, okay, okay, fine, well, no, but I

[00:55:45] Mean he kind of seem why it seemed like when I want to buy that nitro fuel oh yeah they don’t.

[00:55:51] Keep they cannot they can’t keep they got in trouble for that because he used to have that inside like.

[00:55:55] At his well he said that but they called somebody who just went out to me just in the loading dock.

[00:56:01] And came back. So he’s got a trailer outside that’s he can’t even have it on the loading. He had a the next year. He put the trailer out on the loading dock and they said no for that too. He’s only gone for like 30 seconds, so he probably had one of the parking lots somewhere.

[00:56:15] And maybe he’s on a scooter closest lot and just go grab a couple gallons at a time yeah because he.

[00:56:21] Used to have it inside at the booth and then that was question if he still didn’t no he didn’t you.

[00:56:28] Can see he was going very long I mean from the doubt when he left out the fuel is not on premises yeah.

[00:56:33] He went it’s probably in his car parked across the street well he called somebody that met him so.

[00:56:38] He’s got somebody at the trailer waiting and then he calls and says, hey, I need a gallon of this. So then they go and meet him. So they’re both going like the same distance, but just meeting in the middle. So he goes out by the loading dock. Yeah, all right, but anyway, I lost my train of thought. Oh, oh, we were parking inside. Yeah, so the next year, where did we park? It was not that far. No, we parked more, it was.

[00:57:02] About a block maybe. Yeah, we were, yeah, a block over and I guess that would be south. Oh, so it was within two blocks. Yeah, it wasn’t. It was down by the spaghetti warehouse, but not quite that far over.

[00:57:17] Like a block or two towards the river. So it was. It was within walking distance. Yeah, this one I don’t think I would consider within walking distance. It was probably eight blocks away, maybe a little more. Not convenient walking distance. Yeah, like you could do. I mean, you’re not going to die walking that far, but it’s not something where you’re just going to make a quick trip down there, run down things good and then come back. You’re not going to want to carry a plane that far to put it in there, which is why the scooter was awesome, because we were able to make a quick trip down and

[00:57:49] Check on it so yeah the parking on that has changed and that was the first lot which we got.

[00:57:56] Into then if that, if that lot was full, then the other one was across the river, right on the other side of the river, so that was even further. Yet I forgot about that, which was nice. At least they had back or a backup lot to go to, but we were able to get ours in there and the lot that we were.

[00:58:14] In this year it was roomy compared to the lot last year yeah but the lot last year they were also.

[00:58:20] Sharing. I think this lot was solely, I think, all trailer I mean for us. The other one was we were sharing with a ball game and all the other downtown, all the other downtown. So okay, I think that’s that’s what that reading. It was more compact. This one was solely, I think, for the trailers for.

[00:58:43] The convention center. So and like, honestly, the cost of parking that would have made it. I mean it would have been not all that difficult to rent a scooter to go like to leave the car parked there, because it was actually parking for both the car, truck and trailer, truck and trailer. But we I would brought back it, didn’t? We bought the truck back so and I think I mean a day longer than I should have, but I hey you.

[00:59:10] Know what. I’d rather make sure I’m good. Yeah, because I did not want to show up with a orange sticker like a lot of the other trailers and I’m glad you paid attention to that. Yeah, I haven’t told because that was very misleading. On the paying the park 10 bucks to 25 when the kiosk has got a cover on it so you don’t think you have to pay when you go to the kiosk to pay. But there’s qr codes on signs that you’re supposed to scan but it never says to do that. I mean to me it’s like parking meter downtown here, if it’s got a bag on it, it’s not. Yeah, yeah, you don’t, you don’t have to.

[00:59:45] Pay the parking. I went to the kiosk to pay and there’s a bag over the kiosk. No sign says use qr code or online only or nothing. So at this point I was thinking, maybe, maybe, maybe they work something out, we don’t have to pay. And then Reggie went over and talked to some other guy which I guess he got an orange sticker and he was trying to figure out how to pay it because he they were, I mean they were taking him pretty quick. Yeah, I mean, because there was quite a few already out there and this was this early afternoon on thursday- that they’d already come through and stick.

[01:00:16] Put stickers on people’s vehicles. At least it was quick to come back and dispute that over the intercom for everybody who got one to let them know to pay it now. Yeah, to save yourself that extra 15.

[01:00:28] Bucks so but that was misleading but well that’s something hopefully they’ll iron out for next year and make.

[01:00:35] A little bit more and that has nothing to do with the convention. I mean that’s all toledo parking it’s. It’s not a convention center owned. Yeah, parking lot it’s. It’s all downtown toledo part.

[01:00:45] For the city. So yeah, but no. So I mean, the parking is getting farther away, but it’s. It’s still nice the way it’s set up, yeah, and like we ended up parking under the underground in the garage and with the truck and didn’t leave the whole weekend because that was nice. What right see? I mean, think about how much, how much time you save by staying on, I agree, and not only that, but by what was it? Friday afternoon, the lot was full. Yeah, and it was pretty much full, which that was that way last year.

[01:01:21] Because when me and david showed up friday morning last year the underground parking was already full, so I had to park down the street in another paid lot. Yeah, so see, you didn’t have to do that this.

[01:01:32] Year because we stayed there. I’d do it again from now on. Wow, for all eternity. It’s fine, y’all can go by yourselves, I don’t care, oh okay. So what else did we get? So I bought a couple things. Then I bought:

[01:01:49] Well, I wasn’t planning on finding this there, to be honest, but one of the vendors had the umx viper in hand, on stock or in stock on hand. So that was a plane I was planning on buying, just not then. So I’m glad they had it ended up getting that sale special -huh the ra cores. I got the yak 55. I got the yellow version because I thought so. I was looking at them and it was down between the yellow or the green version and I ended up buying the yellow one because I figured tommy had- I know he.

[01:02:22] Bought one last year, the year before, whatever it was, and I know he had. Well, I thought he had the orange one, but after I texted him afterwards turned out he had the green one, so I’m glad I got the yellow. So we have different ones. Who is this from ra cores? It’s just one of those foamy like flat foamy, okay, yeah, okay, just something fun to bang around out here that knock around airplane you don’t care about, not that you don’t care about, but it’s not going to get damaged when it hits the ground.

[01:02:53] Because you just pick it up, you can bounce it off of stuff, yeah, okay, yeah, like prop saver, and put it back on, or yeah, parking blocks would be fine and all that stuff, Reggie. So turn the cab of the truck, there you go. And then the other thing I got was I broke down and bought a, an omp bighorn, which is a very gorgeous plane. It actually went together very fast. I did it last night and this morning. All I have to do is program the radio. I like the very look other than that, it’s, it’s yeah.

[01:03:27] It’s pretty cool. They had them on show special, and so it was the p&p version. So literally all I had to do is glue in the, the rear stab, and then glue in the rudder and hook up the. The push rods were not installed, which I’m not sure why. That was that way because they had. Like the servos were in, the control horns were in, and then they had it covered, obviously with foam cutouts that protected that whole thing. So I don’t know what made them not do that part, but it didn’t add a lot.

[01:04:02] Of time. You gotta do something, no problem, yeah, and propeller on and all that kind of stuff, gear, and it was pretty quick. I’m happy with that one so far. I can’t wait to fly it. It’s gonna be fun.

[01:04:13] Yeah a good looking airplane and if I didn’t have a fms piper I would probably would have grabbed one.

[01:04:18] Well and I like the fact that it’s balsa yeah so I mean yeah I’m kind of starting to get out of the.

[01:04:27] Foamy type airplanes- not that they’re bad, but I just like the balsa. I think I’ve just had so many of them in and out and it’s like I would at this point, like I’ve said before, rather have fewer planes that are maybe a little bit nicer quality. So we’ll see. And then the other thing I bought. I broke down and bought something from flight test, not a plane, but they had helium balloons, kind of like blimp looking, rocket looking things- I don’t even know really how to describe it- helium filled. That you

[01:04:59] Put their little power pod on and you fly it around I figured they were zipping along pretty.

[01:05:05] Good back I think so too yeah an rc blimp yeah oh my god I mean it was he’d punch it and up it go.

[01:05:10] I mean it was, yeah, it looks like it’s easy, but I was. I was back there when he was trying to explain to somebody how to fly it and it’s. It’s one of those things where obviously it’s got helium in it so it’s pretty light, but with power pod and stuff it’s not buoyant to the point where it’s actually it’s not neutrally buoyant, right. So you have to give it throttle to go up and then you take the throttle off and then it kind of floats down a little bit. So that’s what controls, obviously, your altitude. Well, he was explaining to a guy how to do that and the guy wasn’t quite grasping it and

[01:05:46] He kept giving it more throttle and he actually hit one of the rafters, like with the, with the very top of it, and then it. I mean then he throttled back enough and it started coming down, but I think he was trying to go faster. But that doesn’t control speed, that controls altitude. Yeah, a lot.

[01:06:04] Of people don’t understand throttle is actually altitude yeah yep and that’s why it works with.

[01:06:09] The parafoil, right? Oh, absolutely, yeah, you can only go so fast and you’re not going to go faster than whatever your max speed is on that. So if the wind is blowing too hard, you’re not going to say goodbye, yeah, you’re still going backwards. Yeah, so that was all, and then we all. So, finally, the story behind the shiny. So long story short. A couple years ago, or maybe last year, whenever it was, we were talking to hank about the, the swap meet, and he told us that he had a shiny.

[01:06:45] Which was a plane that tommy was wanting, and hank said: okay, I will bring it to the swap meet and you guys can or you can have it. Then we got there, he forgot it and then he’s like: or? Then we talked to him afterwards and he said: what, I’ll bring it to joan all, I’m gonna be there, I’ll meet you guys at joan all. And he forgot it at joan all also, but it finally happened. It finally happened this year. We finally have another shiny for tommy. So tommy now has his own shiny and we can put that.

[01:07:15] To bed. How many shinies do we have? Now? We’re up to three. We’re up to three, yeah, because I still have the new in the box which started this entire electro streak issue. It started the whole electro streak build and all that stuff. Yeah, it’s funny how one little plane that you buy at toledo, what two and a half or three years- now three that I saw at toledo, yeah, and I’m like, oh god.

[01:07:36] That thing’s ugly who would ever want that thing and now I’m surrounded by them I raised my hand I’m.

[01:07:40] Like I want that thing. Yeah, it’s a cool plane, dave, god downer, dave over there, yeah, which reminds me, by the way. Can I tell the story about your plane being sold? Sure, so dave’s got a bad attitude. So we’re sitting there friday, it’s what- an hour after the thing opens. That’s a couple hours in, and dave brought- what was that? That was a cessna. It was one of the carbon z cessna 150s. That’s.

[01:08:10] Been repainted twice. So it’s- I mean, it’s cool looking plane. He’s repainted it. He had it for sale up there and we’re sitting there and I’m, I’m talking to him and he just I shouldn’t even have brought that plane, nobody’s gonna buy it. I’m taking it home with me and just gonna repaint it, yeah, and so that’s that’s the attitude I got. And then it was a couple hours later, maybe something like that. Somebody buys it and didn’t even haggle. Didn’t even haggle paid what he had on there.

[01:08:42] And then dave turns around I looked and I was like well you’re happy you sold your plane.

[01:08:46] No I hate selling planes I don’t like getting rid of my babies I’m like make up your mind.

[01:08:53] You. You’re mad if you don’t sell it. You’re mad if you sell it. You can’t be unhappy about both outcomes. One can be negative and one can be positive, but both aren’t negative. With that,

[01:09:04] Toledo for me, is always so depressing. I don’t like getting rid of my stuff. I know I need to get rid of my stuff. I don’t, yeah, but I have to get rid of my stuff because I want new stuff. So it’s always a catch-22. Yeah, I’m always sort of pressed after toledo’s like oh, like you have so much fun at it.

[01:09:19] You look forward to it and then it’s like but no I have to say goodbye that was it was such a good.

[01:09:25] Flying airplane I really did enjoy flying it just because it was cosmetically gross I didn’t take.

[01:09:31] It to the field I was embarrassed to take it well and nobody would have said a word about it I know.

[01:09:37] I didn’t even know you had that plane to be on but that’s the way it works in my head.

[01:09:41] Yeah, I guess I don’t know because I’m a little picky. No, no, you guys never noticed, but I don’t like getting rid of my babies, although there was one I let loose of that I didn’t care about it. Was that what I’ve referred to as the electric amish? Because I had no idea what it actually was? It was a little twin boom pusher jet looking thing. Profile: yeah, I got it toledo for 20 bucks. I flew it quite a bit actually. It was a good flying little airplane. It was super fast and if you put g’s

[01:10:14] On it apparently twist or something because it always looped out weird if you tried to loop it.

[01:10:21] And I flew it quite a bit, but I’ve got other similar airplanes that are much, much nicer, and so I didn’t really care that one went away and I ended up selling it for 20 bucks, which is what I had in it, so, but you had hours of fun. Yeah, I got my money back out of that one, and it’s not one that I had any attachment to. I didn’t build it, I didn’t paint it. Yeah, I put a piece of carbon fiber on it to stiffen the elevator, to help keep it from looping, and apparently that wasn’t the issue.

[01:10:49] That was it but I did fly it quite a bit it flew really nice and I’m sure whoever got it’s.

[01:10:55] Going to have a blast with it good daniel what’d you get I didn’t get a whole lot this year that’s.

[01:11:01] The story of all of us. Yeah, I sold three, three planes. Well, I took three, three and a half. I took three planes, sold three planes, bought a plane, sold a plane there, then my 3d printed up. I think I sold every one of my. All the stands are gone, all my stands and all my clue glue caddies. I

[01:11:23] Made they I sold all those you had a poop bag of money yeah that’s a cute little story yeah.

[01:11:34] There was a young girl, I’d say maybe 15- 16. She came, she looked at him, she goes: are these the whole glue bottles? And I said, yeah, oh good. She goes, I do a lot of little clark crafts. I need something to hold my glue bottles. She opens up her little coin purse and she starts: I was asking ten dollars for them. So she starts counting out quarters. She goes: do you mind quarters? That’s no, I said: it all spends the same. So she got four dollars worth of quarters out. Well then she dumped her coin purse out and started counting dimes, nickel. Well, first of all she wanted

[01:12:09] To know if I she was going to pay the rest of it in debit card. And I said, well, I don’t, I don’t take debit cards. So she dumped her purse out, or coin purse out, started counting me quarter nickels, dimes, pennies, pennies. I was like what I said? I’m good, four dollars, just, you’re good, just take. No, no, I, I wouldn’t feel right. Just here, take all this. And she just slides the whole pile over to me.

[01:12:34] I said no, seriously, just I said four dollars, that’s fine, enjoy it. No, no, I, I need to pay for this. So just whatever’s here you can have. So, yeah, I’ve got a bag full of. Have you counted it yet? No, I have not counted it yet, so I don’t know exactly what I got. But I, at this point, I wasn’t. She could have had it, just whatever. I mean a young girl, I mean she was fine, but she was going to pay for it one way or the other. And that’s so funny, it just happened. I bought a bunch of nuts and bolts.

[01:13:03] From macro fasteners: yeah, and they used doggy poop bags for those. Right, I mean, it’s just ideal size bag for it and they’re durable. I mean, why not? And I come back and he’s got my poop bag. I’m like

[01:13:17] And it’s got like oh that was it’s got like mass sorry I thought she had that and gave no.

[01:13:22] She literally dumped her coin purse out on the table and slid it over the pile over to me, kind of like I just one at a hand of cards, and she slid all the tokens over to me and she said: you can have all this. You look like you need this more than that. I was like that’s what I’m saying. I know I really don’t want the dimes, nickels, pennies. No, I don’t want four dollars and quarters. Is fine, just call it even. Nope. Nope, I have. That’s not right. I was like well, okay, well, I mean, I didn’t realize that.

[01:13:55] So when you yeah your loot bag like I thought that’s how no okay no I got well because.

[01:14:03] I was david- always has ziploc bags everywhere, so I’m looking for a bag. Well, that’s the only bag I could find, so I dumped his, his nuts, nuts and bolts out into the big bag and then pulled that out. That’s funny, because I didn’t know what else to do with them. I’m standing with a handful.

[01:14:19] But I’m thinking that when I walk up and he’s holding the poop bag and it looks like it has poop in it, because I know that’s what threw me, and it’s like what did you do? Did you clean up after a dog? Because I, I know some people bring their dogs but that’s funny. So yeah, that was good. So yeah.

[01:14:36] I can’t wait to hear how much you actually got for it. I will. I will go home tonight and count it. Yeah, yeah, I just unloaded this morning. I haven’t gone through all my. It’s gonna feel real bad if you get eleven dollars- I know that’s what I was thinking like. If it’s more than ten bucks, overprices, girl, oh, I doubt that, but no, that’s funny. So yeah. So I did that. Like I got a little small four stroke motor. I got we got three 15s for five dollars. Yeah, we got three little 15 motors for five dollars. What?

[01:15:06] Am I going to do with them? I don’t know, but they’re five bucks, five dollars a piece. Can’t really? You can leave them, it’s okay? Well, no, because at this point I was looking for something. I had money in my hand.

[01:15:17] Pocket wasn’t anything catching catch my eye that I have to have.

[01:15:21] And for five dollars. Yeah, they’re nice. Yeah, so I got those I bought. I also bought a big, big horn, plain, just the blue and yellow, versus the red and white that you got. Oh, red and blue, or what did I say? Red and white, oh, I’m sorry, red and blue, I can’t say, but it’s red and white. No, it’s red, white and blue, I guess. Yeah, because the bottom, the wings, are white. Oh, you got some. Yeah, I guess white. Okay, sure, red and white, and mine’s sorry. Yeah, I bought also some new receivers.

[01:16:01] A new fuel can. Oh, yeah, I forgot about a fuel can. I think we all bought fuel cans except Reggie. Yeah, oh, I also did bought some fiber carbon rods. So really, I mean just a lot, oh, dremel scrolls of scroll saw. No, I forgot about that. And

[01:16:20] You’re that was my first purchase that was and your base your router table yeah I didn’t pay for that.

[01:16:26] Though that was on the free table. Oh, that’s right. Yeah, you always have to look at the free table, you do, because you bring home a lot of that’s. I got skis from that. Yes, you did get skis, yeah. And I got a set of wheels and landing gears which we took those, the axles and the wheels, and threw the landing gear away, but yeah, so yeah, it wasn’t, it wasn’t a whole lot. Everything I bought pretty much came home in a tote, yeah, besides the, the plane, same, I mean it just yeah. But it was a lot of things I was looking for. I had a, I had a list started what I needed that I wanted to look for while I

[01:17:00] Was there I bought a lanyard to hold my transmitter which you guys gave me crap about.

[01:17:09] Yeah I mean it’s okay if that’s what makes you happy then well I gotta look for the future.

[01:17:13] Not yeah you’re gonna be at a cast I’m gonna be a cast all summer long so I gotta have something to.

[01:17:19] Help support that new free sky radio yeah I understand yeah but yeah I think that.

[01:17:25] Was pretty much it I mean like I say it was a lot of a lot of little things but stuff I needed I.

[01:17:31] Might have to say the difference. This year there was not a lot of haggling. I mean there was a little bit, but with your stuff but it was minimal. Yeah, except for my little electric amish airplane. Everybody paid exactly what I had my stuff priced at. Yeah, I didn’t have a haggle with anybody. The rc10 guy: he had 125 on the car and I was looking and he said: give me 100. It’s like, okay, yeah, I didn’t haggle on that. I mean I didn’t do any haggling. No one haggled with me. You had very little. Yeah, I had a few of them, but not nothing excessive. That was a big difference this year because they’re

[01:18:06] I’m so used to everybody haggling prices on everything, yeah, and I’ve gotten to the point where I kind of play a game in my head and put oddball prices on my stuff, knowing I’m gonna have to haggle for right. Yeah, and I always round things to like 10s and 15s, yeah, instead of.

[01:18:20] 250 Or yeah because I know it’s I kind of know what the heck is 65 yeah well you take 250.

[01:18:26] Okay, yeah, I get it. And I didn’t dare haggle on the saw because I already stole that from here. I stole that from. I already stole that. You’re looking at something, don’t turn your back. Well, he turned his.

[01:18:38] Back to call his buddy to see if he wanted oh he sent him pictures oh so he sent it so he took.

[01:18:43] Pictures. He took pictures, turned his back, I waited and he took two steps- oh yeah- and sent the picture and then I took this. All I would have loved to see in his face, if you turn back around.

[01:18:54] And it’s gone yeah if you step away from something you have lost all claim oh it was he I waited I.

[01:19:00] Waited in the next row over and kept watching. Yeah, I saw him taking pictures. He called his buddy, sent him pictures, but when he took two or three steps over, literally it was the next table down. Oh yeah, I swooped in, especially if they’re past the table. Yeah, yeah, I mean he was. You don’t have your hand on it. It was still at the same table. That, or you hear the jaws. The same guy.

[01:19:22] Had all these tables but he had just- he just had scooted down one table but it was boom. But that’s something I noticed this year is the amount of haggling that I had to deal with personally, or yeah.

[01:19:33] Either way, it was down a lot. Yeah, I thought so too, which I don’t know what that says, I don’t know. And like there were even a few that I, I- there were at least two planes right now I can think of off top of my head that I didn’t want to sell, like, didn’t like, didn’t really care to get rid of. But I thought, if I get rid of them, fine, if not, so I put the I don’t want to sell them price on it. I got it.

[01:19:59] And that’s what happened with the 109. Yeah, yeah, I put up. It was basically my way when we were loading the trailer. It’s like we’ll take it and see what happens. Yeah, and that’s what it was: put a stupid price on it and, yeah, somebody bid on it. So, okay with the plane stands. I figured if they didn’t sell.

[01:20:15] Them I’m going to use them right it was no I mean no big deal they didn’t stay no it was weird though.

[01:20:20] Not a thing on set or on friday. I think they were too hidden friday, I think, because we have planes sitting on them and you, your, your stand price was too small, I think. So look how much stuff we didn’t.

[01:20:32] See, even though we- yeah, exactly because I noticed as soon as I took, once we had table space and I took the planes off and set them down. At one end I had multiple people picking them up looking at them. I mean, I think the planes were, either they were focused on the plane that was sitting on them.

[01:20:48] And didn’t pay attention or just didn’t catch my little turbo timber was down in the box and we had down in front of the tables and nobody had even looked at it. Well, we had finally sold some stuff there was some room on the table for. So, okay, I’m gonna take it out of the box and set it up here on the front and just have the box in front of it on the floor. I did not have that thing on the table 30 seconds and the guy walks up says I’ll take that. Yeah, it’s like I just took it out of the box. Now I gotta put it back. See he, he finds a way to be naked about it. Like where, where were you 30 seconds?

[01:21:23] Ago. Well, he wouldn’t have seen it. That’s the thing. That’s the thing. But it’s got to be out invisible. Yeah, stuff in a box is fine if that’s the only way you can do it, but if you can get them out on the

[01:21:32] Table. Yeah, and I made sure this year I made to look down. You keep reminding yourself: yeah, look down, which got me in trouble a couple times because there was a couple things I wanted. But no, I you asked him about, no, I just bought that. It’s not for sale and that’s why I.

[01:21:47] Liked our little cover that was hiding that kind of stuff, but- and actually I didn’t even think I did have a second one with me- we probably could have stuff got as we bought more stuff and needed to hide some stuff and sold some stuff that you didn’t have to have under the table. Yeah, any regrets? Yes, I, I mean from, I mean from the swap meet Reggie, not like that life.

[01:22:16] We ain’t got that long wait we tried to talk you into spending money but you wouldn’t do it you.

[01:22:21] Were tight I have yes well the one thing I got my eye was at b17 brian head the umx I would have.

[01:22:27] Bought that well he had looked great for that and didn’t want to get rid of that there was another.

[01:22:32] One over there. Did you see that? I did not. I completely forgot. It was probably more than you would want to pay because it was in condition, brand new in box. No, it was a lot better condition.

[01:22:40] 200 Bucks that’s about what I hear him going for I probably went for it.

[01:22:47] I should have said something I’m sorry I don’t know I’m not going to nap for you max.

[01:22:52] I mean you see fewer and fewer nice ones every time they’re all beating yeah that’d be a no.

[01:22:59] Windfly day. Yeah, so that’s your, your regret. Yeah, that would be the biggest one. That viper, viper, but the f-22 wrapper, yes, yeah, I’m kind of glad I didn’t. In a way, it’s just one more regret. By the way, that’s the opposite of a regret. Oh, I wanted it. Let’s put that way, I did want it. I mean, it was gonna be about what I showed you, about seven, eight hundred bucks with everything on the website for

[01:23:31] It I don’t remember yeah it’s up there this is a v1 the v2s just came out I personally go to the v2.

[01:23:38] They’ve made them even nicer. Yeah, next year, dave regrets. No, I’m good, daniel, I don’t think so. Well, besides missing the all, all patrols, but yeah, I mean, but that is what it is. I mean it was I don’t like.

[01:23:55] Spending money. It’s always an expensive weekend, but it’s nice to hang out with you guys and see everybody else all over other friends: yeah, because it’s the same people every year. I notice even the

[01:24:03] Customer even the ones that aren’t yep you it’s weird how you recognize faces and say well.

[01:24:08] I remember them from last year yeah it’s pretty cool actually I like that so I was net.

[01:24:15] Negative 13 for the weekend you let’s see here I sold four I bought two so I guess I’m net negative.

[01:24:26] Two daniel I guess I sold three and only came home with ones and a half what is this half the fuselage.

[01:24:34] No I sold it he bought it and sold it so that is that zeroes it out yeah I didn’t bring it home.

[01:24:40] Now if I would have brought it home to build the wing that yeah it would have been a half no I only.

[01:24:45] Came home with one plane so technically you sold five and bought two and a half well yeah I just.

[01:24:53] All I know is I have room on the wall. I got a couple empty places. Now I want to. I walk out to my garage and

[01:24:58] There’s holes I was like something’s wrong yeah did I get robbed but I do have the stick.

[01:25:04] From last year that I bought with tommy. Tommy bought the splat plane. Yeah, he’s flown, his, yeah, mine’s still in the box so I can get that out. So that can, that can go up in one of the spaces. But I’ve got everything now for it, so finish that up this week or last, yeah, this weekend. I got the receiver for it, so it’s, I should have everything for it. Well then, I got the fish. Yeah, that’ll be cool, can’t wait for that. I got the- that’s what the carbon fiber rods were for, plus a receiver. So that’s, I got to make a motor mount. Other than that, we should be good and that’ll be easy. Yeah, last thing then.

[01:25:37] Before we get off, I want to talk about dave’s boat. I don’t know anything about boats so I’m going to not speak very knowledgeably- bull whatever on this, but dave entered his boat into the static contest. Yeah, and there was. I don’t know how many entrants there were, but there was numerous.

[01:25:59] Entrances in it, all different categories and, yeah, a bunch of different categories and stuff. So, dave’s, let me pro boat. So it was made by pro boat, pro boat. I don’t, I don’t have it in front.

[01:26:13] Of me I can’t I can’t actually remember what the actual pbr pro boat name was but it’s a model of a.

[01:26:19] Pbr, which is a patrol boat river us navy, vietnam era. Okay, so this is one that, of course, in dave’s style, it’s not what it looked like when he bought it. He added: why don’t you tell?

[01:26:33] Why am I doing it? Yeah, I was wondering, not myself. Well, you should have been like, hey, stupid, shut up and let me talk. It’s been a shit up, not you. Reggie extensively modified. I changed the gunnels. I put just tons and tons of extra detail into it, add armament to it. There’s knives, guns, grenades all over this thing. They put a curtain in it to separate the cockpit area from the

[01:27:01] Under cuddy or whatever you call it, on a boat. I’m not a boat person, me neither so the underneath cabin, so there’s a curtain there and a lot of paint and detail and weathering and chipping. It’s lit, so all the navigation lights- I added transom light to it because it didn’t have one. The radar scope lights up the red lights for all the instruments. All the instruments light up red.

[01:27:28] Pretty much everything you would see there’s a rack on the side for the m16s ammo crates.

[01:27:36] There’s, there’s details. Everywhere you look. There’s a 1969 playboy sitting on the deck and there’s a pin up on the wall of the. The cabin area map of the mekong delta is posted on this. The splinter shield for the m60 midships- just tons of extra detail. It’s got a full crew on it. It’s got the guy up in the front with the rotating twin 50 caliber mount and that rotates and I can turn the search lights on and off independently from the nav lights and the gun tub. That one

[01:28:11] Pivots with the search light, just a lot of little odds and ends. This set of binoculars hanging around in there and it has a full sound system in it from harbor sounds. I actually contacted the gentleman. Harbor sounds unfortunately has gone out of business in the last year or so but I contacted the owner of that and they custom made me a sound system for it. The real boat used twin allison diesels- excuse me, detroit diesels in it. So he did a custom sound chip for it that had the detroit.

[01:28:42] Diesels and you can hear them start up independently and then idle up and then they are synced to the throttle. So as you increase your throttle, the engine sound goes up. And it’s also got two different machine guns, sounds that I can control from the transmitter. It’s got the m60 and it’s got the twin 50s and there’s quite a difference in those sounds. And technically it has the bloop gun, which is the 40 millimeter grenade launcher. They can do that as well, but I have forgotten the sequence.

[01:29:14] On how to operate that. So one of these days I’ll remember the sequence of buttons you push to get the bloop gun. You can hear it bloop and then a few seconds later you’ll hear an explosion. So it’s got lots and lots and lots of little details on it and I renamed it. It is.

[01:29:34] It is the mekong mauler which is on the transom. It’s fictitious but I thought it fit. And then it’s got the little skull and crossbones up painted up on the front of the bow. Completely repainted it the original had a red hull. This has got a black hole in it.

[01:29:53] I. I did it for myself. I never built it as a competition boat, it’s just something I did for myself to go play with it’s. I we’ve chased it with daniel’s pontoon boat, so it has been in the water. Oh, it’s been in water a lot. It’s been like springfield nice. Multiple times it went to joe knall. When I went I used it a little bit there. I was having battery issues with it there. I bought some new batteries for it and they weren’t weren’t working so I didn’t use it much at joe knall. So in fact, when I went to clean it up, to bring it, I had to take and clean some mud off of it from.

[01:30:23] Joe knall, because that’s the last time I used it. It had some south carolina mud on it and it’s a jet boat, so there’s no props.

[01:30:32] They’re buried up inside the hall. So it’s a jacuzzi pump. Neat little boat I built just for myself to play with a friend of ours. Ed bought one as well and he did some things as well, but he didn’t go to the level I did with it and I just decided: well, I’m going to take that up and throw it up on static, because they don’t have very many boats. We’ll see what happens. I just threw it up there and you won third place overall. Yes, not in the boat category, but that was third place of everything else that was entered in the competition. So I feel pretty good about that. Congratulations.

[01:31:03] Or something I just did on a whim for myself. Yeah, so you described it much better than I did. I would have said it was a boat that he painted and put some gi joes on, but I mean, there’s a lot more to it.

[01:31:15] Than that yeah there’s a lot of buried stuff you just have to keep looking at it and there’s more and.

[01:31:19] More that pops up yeah well cool congratulations you won third place like I said overall with everything.

[01:31:25] That was there so you should be happy I’m I’ve never won anything like that so that is ecstatic for me.

[01:31:32] Well, you should be anything else, gentlemen. Nope, I think I’m good, I think I’m done, I’m all good, I am excellent. Very good then everybody. Thank you for listening, until next time. I’m Ron, I’m dave, I’m daniel and I’m

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