RocketFeller
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Just finished cleaning a CTI 75mm 6G casing that I flew a week back with an M840. I hate cleaning 75mm casings. At least I can get my hand inside the 98mm ones.
Get one of these:https://www.csrocketry.com/rocket-mo...rush-76mm.html
Holey moley! Did you cant the fins?
Watched about 20 Alphas and Vikings launched by a mess of 7-10 year olds.
Made room on my desk this morning to start working on a few models. Never leave your cutting mat in a hot van for a week on top of other irregular items. 🙁
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My lesson is: cut on the metric side, GLUE on the imperial side. (Reverse for northern hemisphere...)
I use paper (news/butcher/oven) but some thin CA dripped and soaked and now I have little hard CA spots that bruise balsa.
This is why I don't unsubscribe from RedPlum and other junk mail. Free gluecatchers!I don't usually do any gluing on this particular cutting mat. Gluing is typically done in my hands over an unprotected desktop, or in the case of fins, the body tube is layed on the desktop and supported with various objects to keep it from rolling and the end where the fins are glued hangs over the edge of the desk.
That must have been great. Scouts?
Made room on my desk this morning to start working on a few models. Never leave your cutting mat in a hot van for a week on top of other irregular items. 
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Made room on my desk this morning to start working on a few models. Never leave your cutting mat in a hot van for a week on top of other irregular items. ��
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Mine was worse than that. When we had the apartment heat treated, they knocked mine off the top of the tool box and behind it all wadded up. They took it to 140F for 6 hours. I found it a couple weeks later after an extensive search. I used my Porter Cable heat gun on it. It's ruined. The heating process' hardened it, it no longer self heals. I have to replace it. But, I use when I use the X-Acto or Excel saws. I did an extensive search for price comparison. Tower Hobbies has the best deals when considering quality into the equation. The one that got ruined was a cheap 12x18 Fiskars from a big box store, so the loss wasn't that great.
Something my buddy told me after the fact, is to preheat your oven to the lowest temperature. Put it on a cookie sheet and put it in just long enough to lay flat. Might help you in this case. My heat gun can run upwards of 600F.
Raising the temperature to at least 140 degF will kill a bedbug infestation.I've got to ask... Why would someone "heat treat" their apartment/home? I've never heard of that.
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