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Joe Reinhard’s line reel is a very nice device (at left). He can lock the wires in place gently with his reel. Joe displays his locking device installed on the side and through the line reel (above center). Joe’s battery box is a combination of a Radio Shack stock off-the-shelf item and Joe’s excellent woodwork. Note the battery and plug checker Joe added to the side (above right).


Line reel Met Joe Reinhard at the AMA 75th An- niversary Fly In, and we got a chance to fly together for almost a full day. He brought his Wim Cator Plano, and I had my Louis van den Hout Olympus. This was the first time these two models have been on the same flying field since the late 1970s. It was marvelous seeing those two models together after all these years. While swapping flights and launchings, I noticed two hand-built items made by Joe. He is a craftsman any- way, but his line reel and battery box caught my attention. Joe’s workmanship is always impeccable, and his line reel is no different. The pictures will show his reel and how it turns with a pin mechanism to lock the lines in place while they are being stored.


Steve Buso’s new Bobcatmodel powered by a Randy Smith Fox .35 (above). The Bobcatweighs in around 40.5 ounces and has 465 square inches encapsulated in the foam wing. Fellow Stunt fliers, Joe Reinhard and his Wim Cator Plano and Allen Brickhaus with his Louis van den Hout Olympus(below) at the AMA’s 75th Anniversary Fly In this past summer in Muncie, Indiana.


Battery box Joe Reinhard also created a wooden and fuel-proofed box to hold hardware store D- sized batteries as a starting device. The plas- tic insert is from Radio Shack, and the box framework holds four of your favorite brand of D-sized cells. The box also includes a glow plug bolted to the side of the box to check for plug failure. The plastic section slides into the wooden framework and is locked in place by a hand knob from a hardware store.


Bobcat Steve Buso’s Bobcat is a 49.5-inch span


model of 465 square inches of wing area. It weighs in at 40.6 ounces and is built from a foam component wing and balsa. It is pow- ered by a Fox .35 tuned by Randy Smith with an ABC piston and liner combination plus hemi-head and other Randy tricks. It is painted with Sig dope covered by a PPG Del- tron DC 3000 clear coat. Steve’s Bobcat follows along the design of


the Scepter 500, as published in the Novem- ber 2010 issue of FLYING MODELS. Build a light and straight small model to use for practice, and keep the stress of a large Stunter from pulling your arm off at the be- ginning of the year.


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