Half-A Storage Rack

If you have a lot of Half-A's laying around and need to store them so they won't get damaged and still have quick access to them this might be the answer for you. I had about a dozen or so Half-A planes taking up useful space and threw together a fast built rack made out of a couple of 2X3's and drilled holes at 5 degree angles every 3 inches and used 12 inch 7/16 dowels to support planes. Cost was under $10.00. It took about a half hour to build. Whats nice about it you can move it about the shop or just stuff it in the corner out of the way. It's very light. Gives me more ceiing room now. I get to start building more models now.

It looks like you need more planes. Great idea with the rack. Now only if I could keep my 1/2A's alive long enough to rack them.
BTW what kind of car is taking up all the useful space?

Jay

Nice set up!
Looks like a '41 Ford to me.

J

Are you planning to put castors on it? I put swivel castors on mine from the local hardware store and weighted the bottom with a couple of sand bags to make it more stable. Some flat foam insulation with peel off sticky tape on one side of the dowels helps avoid wing damage.

I was going to put castors on it but it's so lite, you can pick it up with one hand. I thought it would be top heavy but it's not, mainly because I didn't make it to tall. 6 feet. The stand is 20 inches out each side, 16 inches out the front and 11 inches out the back. Very stable. Correct on the car being a 41 Ford. Also Chevy powered. Someday I might be able to afford a newer car if I can curb my model spending.

Clyde,
The rack is nice but, could you post more pics. of the little Ford in the back ground.And tell us alittle about it.Cool Car.

Gordy

LAST EDITED ON Apr-08-04 AT 08:03 PM (CDT)
 
I acguired the car 20 odd years ago while I was living in Alaska,there was no running gear in it and about in the early 90's I tried to get rid of it and couldn't even give it away, so it was on it's way to the car crusher and I just couldn't bring myself around to do it. So I stuck it in my shop and I was in the process of scrapping out a 76 El Camino and I stuffed the whole drive train in it down to using the seats, wheels, tires and hubcaps. 2 weeks later drove it out of the shop threw a little Red Lead primer on it and named it Freddie. I then took it to Vancouver WA. where I kept it and used it to comute back and forth to Phoenix. Kept it in Phoenix a few years and now keep it at my home in Reno. In Reno I've reprimered it light gray and fully upholsterd it. This year it gets painted. Other than that I've done nothing else to it except to drive it. I also have 3 other cars, A 39 Packard 4 dr sedan nice original, a 50 Ford club coupe looks original, but Chevy powered and a 29 Ford Full Fenderd Sportcoupe, Chevy powered under construction, but Freddie is still my favorite and I drive him on a regular basis.

Clyde,
Thanks for the pics.and the info.Glad it didn`t go the the crusher.
I have a 1955 Chevy red and white.

gordy

>Clyde,
>Thanks for the pics.and the info.Glad it didn`t go the the
>crusher.
>I have a 1955 Chevy red and white.
>
>gordy

Me too. Certain cars (like some model and full size airplanes) are "survivors"- they deserve a better fate than that, and they can really crank when given a chance. The car looks sharp- what color are you going to paint it? I think Ford used to have a "Dove Grey" or something like that back in the '40s that would look nice on it along with the interior.
Like a grey ghost from the past...

Jake

Thanks CR, I've been meaning to make something to clean up the kids planes, just couldn't decide on the materials. Made one tonite, it was cheap and easy!

Great stuff CR, the storage stand and the 1941 Ford. But I could not help but notice the twin-boom gray airplane in bottom of your storage rack. Could you please post a better photo (or two, maybe even three?) of it and tell us ALL about it, i.e. what kit / plan, engines, props, tanks, wheels, how does it fly, etc.? I am guessing it is a P-38, perhaps the old 1/2A Sterling kit? I am a retread (old fart) CL modeler just getting back into the CL aspect of model aviation and my interest has always been in the 1/2A CL models, especially the ones of yesteryear ..... THANKS MUCH!

LAST EDITED ON Apr-09-04 AT 01:56 AM (CDT)
 
That plane I scratched built back in the late 60's or early 70's. It was my version of what I thought the Sterling P 38 might of looked like. It also has the very first engine I got for my birthday in 1951 a 045 Spitzy. The wheels are Veco and Kap pak tanks,6-3 Topflite Nylon props and Aero Gloss paint. I flew it quite a few times but haven't even run the motors in at least 25 years. The rudders broke of from just hanger rash and I have them somewhere with the intentions of gluing them back on, but you know how that goes.

Oh by the way Jake the color for the Ford is a Metallic Blue.It's a Mopar color used on the pick ups. The car is also getting new wheels and dropped down a few inches.

CR,

The biggest problem I see with your shop is the fact that you need a few airplanes in Alaska for the festivities when you're there. This would free up space and the time required to organize your space more efficiently. Think about it!

Those planes, (Sterling Mustang and Yak, several Ringmasters, Ruffy, Flying Fool, etc.) just don't look as good there in Reno as they did in your Alaska shop. And....you didn't have any complaints about flying in thin air in Alaska, either!