What is your favoite tool in your tool box?

[Jade_Monkey07]

I personally require a bathroom more than the couch, it's a diabetes drug thing, hourly like clockwork.

Theres a toilet in there too

 

[Keno]

Theres a toilet in there too

I am not diabetic but I like your coments and the bathroom, damn drugs!

 

[Phin G]

Portable glue gun. Comes in the car with me every time we fly. And also prop changer, props and butane soldering iron.

 

[Piotrsko]

I am not diabetic but I like your coments and the bathroom, damn drugs!

What i really like about the drug manufacturers is the way they bury the important side-effects. In my newest drug, there's this thing called necropsy where important dangling bits of me could atrophy AND fall off. Hmmm do i really need this?

Don't try this at home, kids

 

[Piotrsko]

Portable glue gun. Comes in the car with me every time we fly. And also prop changer, props and butane soldering iron.

Bought a ryobi battery glue gun as a result of this forum, run extra strong long dwell time glue $$$ticks, and carry a leatherman with a 3" Crescent branded adjusting wrench. If that won't fix it, I can walk the block home to where the real tools.live.

 

[MachineCat]

For soldering small stuff with my getting old eyes, here is my setup. Just use my phone camera as a magnifyer. The good thing is that I can see both original one and the magnified screen at the same time.

 

[checkerboardflyer]

I have a large 9" Craftsman drill press out in the garage. Little too big for the basement and it's chilly out there in the Winter. I came across this mini drill press on Amazon. Takes up to 1/4" drill bit. Works great. More resources for foam board R/C modelers on my blog at: https://foamboardflyers.com/

 

[JetCrafts]

mines my nose pliers and small blade im 12

 

[flyranger]

My cork-backed rulers and my fine line sharpie. Thank you Sam Platt for sharing.

 

[checkerboardflyer]

The more that I use hot wire to do various tasks, the more I like the process. Shown below I am using a hand held hot wire bow to cut some foam ribs. I made lite ply rib templates, then a stack of rib blanks between them. Just keep the wire moving smoothly. It takes a bit more time to make the templates, but it takes more time to cut ribs one at a time. Plus, if I ever need more ribs it's easy to make them. More tips and resources for foam board RC modelers on my blog at: https://foamboardflyers.com

 

[Bricks]

My favorite tool is my wallet as it contains what I need to get the rest of what I need.

 

[Musdang]

Pliers, Hot glue (haha) and a teeeeny tiiiiny set of screwdrivers and tweezers

 

[FlamingRCAirplanes]

My brain.

 

[Mr NCT]

I was tired of coiling up excess servo extension wire and having the connectors come lose so I bought Amazon's suggested crimper and servo wire connector set. I went through a dozen crimps that didn't hold and finally gave up and soldered them first - what a pain. Finally decided to give it one more try and bought this Iwiss crimper. It made a good crimp first time, every time. It's a poor workman who blames his tools because he doesn't keep bad tools in his tool box!