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Where to buy Balsa, spruce, ply etc.
Fred:
Hi Peter,
Not in stock so far, but that will be the case in the near future. The plan is to stock everything a builder (if there is any left :lol: ) need !
Favourite supplier :?: Try Airtech-rc.com in France. Very good advices !
@Scamper : The carbon rod is a really good alternative to the piano wire.
But... Carbon rods need more care than piano wire as they don't bend, but break suddently (which can be good sometimes, during a hard landing etc etc...)... Need to be checked after each setup for cracks and so on...
The other choice, will be FiberGlass rods.
So far, I never broke a carbon rod in one of my gliders ! I have replaced 2 12mm piano wires in my Lo100 by 2 same by in Carbon... Gain is around 800 grams, and so far, none have broke ! :D
IceWind:
What about ply?
Is there any place around in Dublin were to get some?
Or even balsa just to get a single sheet of balsa, I've been looking to see were to get some parts. Like a saw and some thin sand paper.
But it seems this is not a good place for termites!
garrykeogh:
Hi Ice Wind,
Check with Fred to see what materials Island Models is stocking at the moment. I am not sure. Failing that, you could try...
Peter Schweppe's shop on Capel street, Dublin city centre called "The Model Shop" has some materials. He stocks balsa wood and both lite-ply and the plywood that I used to call miralite. He has some "stuff" there like glues and covering films but doesn't carry a huge amount. Norman Greene near Harolds Cross has some useful stuff. He and one of his staff, a guy called Patrick do some gliding so they generally have a bit of gear. His stuff is ever so very slightly VERY F***ING OVERPRICED if you ask me! I always get only what I needed (no impulse purchases) and leave with a lot less money than I expected :roll:
The lite-ply is good to replace balsa but where you need to make sure it won't split along the grain. It is perfect for a former that is not loaded, laminated to make servo mounts or something like this. The ply I called miralite is available from 0.4mm to 3mm in small sheets. I have used this for wing joining braces and heavily loaded formers as it is very strong especially when you laminate several layers with epoxy, clamped together while drying.
By thin sand paper, do you mean fine grit? If you want fine grit sand paper, try to avoid places like Woodies! A trade type motor factor will stock a range of Aluminium Oxide and Silicon Carbide paper from 40 grade through to 1200 grade.
Hope that this info is some use to you? Where abouts in Dublin do you live? This may make a difference which shop you visit.
Garry
IceWind:
Thanks Garry!
That is really usefull!
I'm near the center, Clontarf. Also as i have a car i can go a bit further away!
I wanted the ply to do some servo mounts.
Also the balsa i need one sheet only, i saw the stocks in island models but its a 10 pack but i think i go for that. I can keep the rest to build something!
But is good to have a place to get this stuff right away. Not for big purchases.
Regarding the sand paper yes i mean a a fine grit! As i haven't found any that was thin enough i bought some nail files.
It was enough for what i wanted at the time and now my nails look awesome! :)
But the problem is that they are small, and to sand a bigger area it doesn't work.
Nando
Fred:
Hi Fernando,
The 10 pack for balsa is because of the shipping... Not easy to send only one sheet of balsa ! :roll:
Let me know what you need or looking for, and we can meet at the slope and I'll give you the stuff ! :D
Mind you, not everything is on the website yet for building materials, but we pretty much have everything ! Not a lot of interrest in Ireland for wood and so on, so we are a bit slow updating this section ! :oops: :oops:
Let us know.
By the way, how the glider is coming ?
Fred
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