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Summary: Make space for your radio control models. Learn how to best work with the space available to you when building a workspace for making remote controlled models in this free video from a model-making expert.
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Curtis Enlow Curtis Enlow has played, studied or worked in aviation and aerospace since he was five years old. He has worked flight lines in support of commercial, milita... read more
Hi, my name is Curtis Enlow. And on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you how to plan, set up and equip a work area for radio control models. One of the major considerations before we even get started is matter of how much space is available to you. If you live in an apartment for example you're not going to be able to set up a big permanent work bench like this uh if you just don't have the space. So minimum I would recommend is at least a cutting mat or some type of protective board to protect your work surface, if you have to say work on the kitchen table and then move your gear out of the way and then some type of a tool box to keep your tools organized and in one place so you always know where your stuff is. Now, if you are lucky enough to have a space similar to this where you can set up a large, semi permanent insulation, then you need to consider what kind of radio controlled models you are going to be working on. Now, this get it on here, is a wing from a sports scale J3 cub, and as you can see it?s about six foot long. Uh, you're going to need some real estate for working on something like this, a large building board, now to be fair this is built in two pieces and then joined in the center. But you're still going to need a fair amount of space in which to do something like this. Now, stick in ball set airplanes, stick in tissue as they call them sometimes um, that's another whole other ball wax and we're not going to really address that in this, in this video. What we're going assume is that you're working on small, smaller RC models like this RC helicopter possibly off road vehicles, uh robotics, there's all kinds of things out there in the market today. So, your space is a major consideration when setting up a shop to work on RC models.