A dark RC related sin.

[Pablo68 1118]

C'mon now. We've all done it. We all know the fear and shame.



I'm talking of stealing small tupperware containers that could otherwise be used in the kitchen, to store screws and bits from our RC cars.

Confess this sin and be free!

[Re-Bugged 11584]

Guilty as charged your Honour, I may have also pilfered a recipe book stand to help free up precious bench space 😁

[alvinlwh 7227]

I steal them not for RC but for sorting out Nanoblocks. 

[BuggyDad 5904]

It's just me living where I do RC stuff, so is it theft? Oddly it still feels like it. 

I also push ice cream on anyone I see, like a dealer who's fallen on hard times, just to free up the containers. 

Really I should get back into takeaways too. I've lost my trusty dog food measurer-outer. 

[Rijkvv 66]

Not Tupperware, but I did want to use/commandeer something else from the kitchen for the hobby.

Our kitchen has a carousel, and when we bought it I was told that type is called a Le Mans. I immediately thought of storing/displaying some Tamiya Le Mans racers I intend(ed) to get on those shelves. Fortunately, the first one has yet to arrive, so World War 3 was averted. 😄

[MadAtComputer 43]

I've done it, and I'll do it again.

[TurnipJF 10243]

Guilty as charged. 😁

[Grumpy pants 5503]

100% all time 😂

 

[urban warrior 493]

Hm ... you may call me "weird", but after some years of keeping rc parts in various ice cream boxes or other crude solutions, I changed my "storage system" completely:

A place for everything and everything in its place. But you don't need to worry: I still have some chaos here and there.

[MadAnt 299]

Coffee cans, Chinese food containers, cookie tins, a jar for old oils. We've all used stuff found in the kitchen.

[Carmine A 2455]

ALL TOO OFTEN!   I've used empty sour cream and cottage cheese pots, numerous take-out containers... even TV dinner trays! 

My wife keeps barking "STOP USING TRASH!" 

I tell her, I'm recycling ♻️ 🤪 

[OoALEJOoO 3283]

One mortal sin here, tupperware used as an ESC box

Sadly, Tupperware has filed for bankruptcy... seems we didn't sin hard enough!

[Badcrumble 4422]

My Grandfather had a garage wall of shelves stacked high with tobacco tins.

He never smoked.

But he worked in engineering environments where all his colleagues did so he harvested the tins and made use of them. Each one was labelled with sticking plaster noting the contents.

When my employer's office recently 'downsized', it was amazing how many plastic containers had been abandoned in the kitchen. Quite a few found new homes in my shed 

[ADRay1000 524]

my buddy works at a container machine manufacturer, and one of their products is a paper fiber bowl machine. After seeing a demonstration, I was given a stack of the product to take home. 

They’re great for sorting parts out for builds. They’re about 7” in diameter and about 2” deep, and have held up remarkably well. 

[BuggyDad 5904]

14 hours ago, OoALEJOoO said:

One mortal sin here, tupperware used as an ESC box

Sadly, Tupperware has filed for bankruptcy... seems we didn't sin hard enough!

Reminds me, I feel I should pop this here:

We could wait for the body to get my son's DT-03 running. 

[Old_Corny 315]

17 hours ago, Badcrumble said:

My Grandfather had a garage wall of shelves stacked high with tobacco tins.

He never smoked.

But he worked in engineering environments where all his colleagues did so he harvested the tins and made use of them. Each one was labelled with sticking plaster noting the contents.

When my employer's office recently 'downsized', it was amazing how many plastic containers had been abandoned in the kitchen. Quite a few found new homes in my shed 

I still use a couple of tobacco tins given to me by a neighbour in the early 70's, they're great!

Also using half a dozen empty mixed peel tubs and tupperware

[Pablo68 1118]

5 hours ago, BuggyDad said:

Reminds me, I feel I should pop this here:

We could wait for the body to get my son's DT-03 running. 

IT'S NOT SILLY IF IT WORKS!!

[ADRay1000 524]

how’s this for a bodge? reinforcing the broken hole with a plastic take away container lid. 

[Carmine A 2455]

@ADRay1000 that's actually a great idea! 👍 

[Carmine A 2455]

My latest "sin"!! On my thread in the Big Rigs forum, I've been playing the game.... "HOW many things can I change about the Grand Hauler"!!? Moving the Gearbox back meant I had to change everything on top of it....

For the Cab floor, i had to make a Gearbox hump, cutting out the floor underneath. What to use? Why.... used plastic pudding pot, of course!!! 😂🤪

My wife really hates when I use "garbage" for modeling!

Oh, and the shifter is a bent piece of kit sprue....

 

[markbt73 5850]

I used my wife's ultrasonic cleaner for RC parts, with her blessing, but without realizing the mess it would make inside. She was upset, but... I now have my own ultrasonic cleaner.

[Carmine A 2455]

@markbt73 that's one way of getting one! 🤪

[Mad Ax 10586]

Literally I did just just the day before this thread started!  I was going to the UK Scale Nationals, I wanted to put all my scale recovery stuff (ground anchors, tow lines, kinetic straps etc) into my rucksack because they fall off the cars and get lost.  But then I figured they'd get lost in the rucksack because it doesn't have little pockets for stuff like that.

So I took one of the tupperwares from the kitchen.  Actually one of the most-used ones, as it's smaller than the others and useful for little leftovers.

I'm sure my wife will be annoyed if she notices, but she doesn't notice a lot, I could probably sell her car without her realising for a few weeks.

Mostly I use the empty tubs - in fact our recycling output has increased dramatically this year because I realised I had way too many empty spreadable cheese pots, butter tubs, and other small containers stacked up in the "useful containers" pile.

I've never got enough ice cream containers though, but that's fine because I love ice cream.