Building Materials, Excluding Covering

[Balsa Man]

If I am looking to build the hollow tube for my helicopter for the body, does anyone know if the Freedom Flighters design come with the proper wood to make a hollow tube. If not does anyone know what is a good place to buy the wood?

Freedom Flights kits have conventional motor sticks.
Specialized Balsa sells 1/64th sheet.

[baker]

Rolled tube making...
http://www.parmodels.com/Techniques_and ... 0Stick.pdf

[jander14indoor]

good instructions on that site, I made my first rolled tube from those. As to thickness, it depends on how light you want to make things vs enough strength to hold the thick rubber bands our 3.5 gm models require. You can estimate weight by figuring out the area of the ring multiplying by the length then by the density. Add a little for glue.

Jeff Anderson
Livonia, MI