Roddie's 1/2A control-lines

Marleysky wrote:Eat more cashews, use empty can #2.  

Refer to previous thread: https://www.coxengineforum.com/t9893-control-line-reels?highlight=Line+reels

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Thanks Rene.. Your 1st suggestion has teeth.. I'd rather not have to mail-order something if I don't have to. Most flyers are prepared with spare/"purpose-made" line-reels. Maybe I can make-up a reel using some cardboard-discs and hot-melt glue.

akjgardner wrote:

roddie wrote:Getting ready to use 15 lb. Dyneema-braid (fishing-line) to fly my small 1/2A models. I'm planning on using a single 60-65 foot length of line running "through" a lightweight handle for two lines that are 30-32 feet long. I'd rather not wind the lines around the handle.. and I don't have an empty reel. When we had the first CEF Reed Speed contest.. I made-up a 42' two-line set that I have wrapped-around a "Planters" cashew-can..  

Any suggestions..?

good luck Roddie, can't wait to see the flight report

Thanks much Joe.. As per usual.. I'm applying the "Roddie-redneck" method to making my own reel..



stay tuned......

rsv1cox wrote:As Carly would say "Anticipation is making me wait".  

Behold.. the "triple-R" (Roddie Redneck Reel)......






I just need to cut a slit for the airplane-end terminations..

NEW222 wrote:Nice job roddie! Look just like the ones you can buy, but for only a fraction of the cost. My post is rather funny now that I see yours just above mine. You must have just been hitting 'Post' as I was typing mine. Anyways, thanks for sharing and I will probably build myself a couple too.

Thanks Chancey! It wasn't very hard to make. The outer-discs I made from the heavy cardboard that you find on the back of a note-pad. Heavy-grade poster-board would also work. I traced the plastic-lid from a peanut can for the size.. (4" diameter) The two inner-discs I made from corrugated cardboard. I traced the plastic-lid from a Pringle's potato-chip can (3" diameter), The plastic-lids have a center-dimple which I pierced with an awl. This allows marking/ piercing all the cardboard discs on-center.. for alignment when gluing.

It's important when gluing the discs together.. that there are no gaps that the control-lines could slip-between. I cut a short piece of tubing/bushing for the sheet-metal screw that runs through the center.. to avoid the coarse threads chewing-up the cardboard while cranking the handle. The sheet-metal screw was sized for the little wooden spool that I had. A small round cabinet-knob would work with a short screw and flat-washer. The crank-handle is just a short length/piece of 5/16" hardwood dowel.. glued into a drilled-hole approximately 1-1/4" from the center of the reel to accept it.

I think I'll install a strip of hook & loop to secure the line-terminations while winding them on.