A recent visitor to AeroKnow Museum examines a model of a DeHavilland Comet IV.
About eight years ago, I realized I had purchased enough plastic and wood clothes hangars to completely replace the old-fashioned wire hangars that had served me so well since I moved into an apartmemt the first time 40 years ago, so I pitched almost every wire hangar in the house. almost as soon as I encountered one in a corner on a closet floor. Today I wish I had every one of them back, not for my clothes, but for AeroKnow Museum.
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Since moving out to the airport and getting serious about displaying model airplanes on something better looking than inverted styrofoam drinking cups and washed and white-papered-over soup cans. I discovered on a whim that with the top-of-the-triangle hooks removed, wire hangars can be cut into three pieces of wire that are perfect thickness and bendability for the model stands needed. Hence this call for your help.
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I tried what we called music wire back in the days when every hobby shop carried a tall box of it in various thickness. We used to buy the thin wire for control lead-ins attached to bellcranks in the middle of the fuselage and extended out the wingtips for attaching to our Jim Walker U-Reely handles. We used thicker music wire to run from the bellcrank to the control horn that connected to the elevators. I learned recently that while not a single hobby or craft store carries music wire anymore, some music stores do. I’ve delayed my search to find wire I can buy wire YOU might donate in the form of wire hangars. There are other priorities at the Museum: file folders, printer ink cartridges to name a few.
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If you have hangars you will donate, leave a comment following this post. That will allow me to write you back to arrange for me to pick them up. (Your e-mail address appears in a blogger’s inside information.)
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Better yet, take them to Landmark Aviation at Springfield, Illinois’ fabulous Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport and leave them for me at the service counter.
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Even better, bring them out to AeroKnow Museum when I’m in the office, typically 7:30 to 8:45 and 5:30 to 8 pm most days, and most of the time most weekends.
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Don’t worry about having more coat hangars than we can use. That will not happen, and if it does, I will announce the happy news right here.
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If you live too far away to drive, consider sending a check that will allow us to purchase music wire for stands. Just say in a note that your donation is for the model stands fund, and I guarantee you, we won’t purchase file folders blank DVDs or photo paper with it.
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Thanks for your consideration.
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