{"id":3938,"date":"2019-11-23T09:34:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T14:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/blog\/?p=3938"},"modified":"2019-11-23T09:34:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T14:34:33","slug":"free-flight-tip-of-the-day-make-use-of-scraps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/free-flight-tip-of-the-day-make-use-of-scraps\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Flight Tip of the Day &#8211; Make Use of Scraps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are like me, you have a ton of scraps left over from building models.\u00a0 These are sticks left over and carrier pieces.\u00a0 The sticks are too small and\/or unknown density (weeks\/months\/years from now) and the carrier sheets have wood that &#8220;could&#8221; be used, but how?<\/p>\n<p>Well, how about this?\u00a0 Strip sticks off the sheet and chop up all sticks into random length sections.\u00a0 Put them in a container and toss the container in your flight box.\u00a0 When you are at the field trimming, you just might need a Gurney Flap (or two) for your new bird.\u00a0 Grab that container &#8211; it is full of pre-cut Gurney Flaps!<\/p>\n<p>You will still have tons of excess balsa, but at least some of it will be put to good use and you won&#8217;t have to waste time at the field digging out balsa and stripping it at the field (like I do).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Gurney.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3939\" src=\"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Gurney-1024x705.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Gurney-1024x705.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Gurney-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Gurney-768x529.jpg 768w, https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Gurney.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are like me, you have a ton of scraps left over from building models.\u00a0 These are sticks left over and carrier pieces.\u00a0 The sticks are too small and\/or unknown density (weeks\/months\/years from now) and the carrier sheets have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/free-flight-tip-of-the-day-make-use-of-scraps\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-builds","category-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}