Tool to Fill in spirals in tubes

[Doug Rocket]

Created a syring tool to fill in spirals.
Get:
Wood Filler.
Plastic pipet
medicine syring
Super glue extender tip.

Water down the wood filler just a tiny bit of water does the trick. Like one drop..get a thick soupy constinstency. Cut tip of the pipet. Stick it on the tip of the syring then put a super glue extender on. Pictures and video attached...take it all apart to clean and reuse. No need to glue tips together. Tight fitting.

 

[Hobie1dog]

one guy on here has right below his Avatar, "I refuse to fill spirals"

 

[Doug Rocket]

Video.

 

[Doug Rocket]

one guy on here has right below his Avatar, "I refuse to fill spirals"

Haha..yeah its a pain but using the syring technique it took me less than 15 minutes for 5 tubes.

 

[Hobie1dog]

Haha..yeah its a pain but using the syring technique it took me less than 15 minutes for 5 tubes.

and how long did it take you to sand all five tubes smooth?

 

[Doug Rocket]

It took less than 10 minutes to sand all 5 tubes. I was surprised how much time I saved and how easy it is vs using my fingers and making a mess.

 

[JohnCoker]

I'll have to give this a try. I generally use a plastic spreader, which seems to pack it in and smooth off the excess as well.

 

[cwbullet]

Created a syring tool to fill in spirals.
Get:
Wood Filler.
Plastic pipet
medicine syring
Super glue extender tip.

Water down the wood filler just a tiny bit of water does the trick. Like one drop..get a thick soupy constinstency. Cut tip of the pipet. Stick it on the tip of the syring then put a super glue extender on. Pictures and video attached...take it all apart to clean and reuse. No need to glue tips together. Tight fitting.

I do the same thing. I also use a spreader to take off the excess.

I have found these spreaders very useful to ensure the excess is removed.

 

[Hobie1dog]

I use the plastic single edge razor pack of three to five at the hardware stores, they're usually always red in color for the handle, and yellow for the blade. makes for a very easy to hold spreader.

 

[T-Rex]

I have some 12cc curved tip syringes. I may have to give one a try. 90% of the time I ignore spirals, can't tell the difference when it's on the pad....

 

[crossfire]

I'll have to give this a try. I generally use a plastic spreader, which seems to pack it in and smooth off the excess as well.

I use old credit cards. They work well

 

[SolarYellow]

I use old credit cards. They work well

I travel a bit for work and usually forget to leave the mag-stripe room key at the desk on my way out. So those can accumulate fairly readily.

 

[KenECoyote]

I use old credit cards. They work well

Same here. Also I tend to have my wife help by cutting up my new credit cards after seeing my Black Friday rocketry bills.

 

[mh9162013]

Credit cards are too wide in my opinion, for filling in spirals of "standard" Estes BT-20 tubing.

 

[crossfire]

Credit cards are too wide in my opinion, for filling in spirals of "standard" Estes BT-20 tubing.

You use cut them to the size you want. They work very well.

 

[PayLoad]

one guy on here has right below his Avatar, "I refuse to fill spirals"

That would be me

 

[Hobie1dog]

That would be me

YEAH #^*(&%#@ spirals

 

[Pickles McRocketPants]

maybe this is heresy, but i always laid down a layer of original kilz (spray can) and sandy sandy voila, messier sure, but very clean overall look. it has very high build w/o even trying, in fact you wanna avoid it, just quick lengthwise runs

 

[Abilene Sam]

I do the same thing. I also use a spreader to take off the excess.

I have found these spreaders very useful to ensure the excess is removed.

I use a single-sided razor blade while the body putty is still soft.

 

[cwbullet]

I use a razor blade while the body putty is still soft.

I have a lot of plastic razor blades. I will try them.