Soft Hold-Downs

Here’s a simple trick to help pin down your airplane parts during construction. If you need to pin down a model part made of light plywood or some hard grain balsa that will easily split, add a length of silicone tubing to your T-pins. Press the pins into the work surface on either side of the part and the tubing will provide sufficient holding pressure while the glue sets. I use medium size T-pins and...