I've updated the Rubber Turns Calculator for any newcomers to FF rubber. With the way rubber can change throughout the years, this chart will give you a good place to start. Use it only as a general guide. hallmanstudio.com/rubber_turns_calculator.pdf

These videos you are making, will become the greatest reference for this hobby. It shows the straight way to go for beginners and also for who is in the hobby for some time. Thank you. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I tried S hooks from a couple of other youtubers that had aggressive circular bends that formed an actual S that was hard on my old hands with .047 and was hard to adjust but worked great when i got it right. After seeing this I went straight to my work bench and nailed it after a couple tries. The angular bends were a easier on my hands and easier to adjust and worked as well as the other method. I rarely comment on the many Tubers that I follow but these videos are really serving their purpose and upping my free flight game. Thanks again

Good Grief, no wonder averaging only 10-15 flights per motor using stock hooks, no silicon tubing or dental bands. With these fantastic, instructional videos you’ll make a rubber free flighter out of me yet! Thanks again.

Tom is The #1 Guru of this sport/hobby/craft/art and an inspiration to us all, modelers, retired modelers & non-modelers alike...Moses

Thanks to your channel and your generosity in teach all. Soon I will fly too!

Thank you for demonstrating rubber creep on a regular model hook! I tried a rubber motor on my recent build and I believe you have saved me certain heartache. Z bend shafts! So far I've got 1 out of 3 I can use without wobble. 1 out of 3 should provide a batting title. LOL! Thank you again!

I've seen the dreaded creeping but had no idea how to remedy it, thanks.

Wow 🤩! Just never understand the proper use of a great interpretation of a hand made device. Cheers 🥂!

4 times the hook-to-peg length? Wow. I really need to up my game as that is impressive. Another great video.

Inspiring, in its simplicity. THANKS !

I am making my reverse Z hooks thanks to this video. They are working GREAT! I've already known them by pictures but the emphasis you have put on showing the advantages made me decide the right way. Thanks Tom!

I am getting into the hobby and this videos are solving many of my doubts, thank you very much!!!

Thanks! Your videos are truly inspiring!

I don't know how I've been missing these videos. They are fantastic. Every little step, you make clear to see. I am kind of getting that book I keep asking you to write.

Thank you Tom, for sharing your knowledge with the rest of the world! Where are my pliers..?!! Greetings from Belgium!

Love these Free Flight Basics videos, Tom:) The timing couldn't be better too, with the winter building season upon us. I've already adopted many of your techniques and it has helped improve my building experience! Just left my building board a few minutes ago where I was using some of your covering tips with greater success. Thank you, Barry

K&S stands for Wally Simmers and "Stoop" Karsch who founded the company. Both were Chicago area free flight fellows of whom you may have heard,

Have been making reverse s hooks will try the alternate z and chec hooks look much easier to make thanks

Thank you Tom for doing these lovely videos. They are educational and enlightening. You might consider this knowledge as petty, since you grew up seeing your dad and you grew up into this hobby. But for people like me you are the mughal, the guru or the Pied Piper. These videos will become the free flight bible. The editing, music and explanation are perfect. Once again thank you and God bless.

I skipped free flight/rubber power when I was a kid. Now as a70 something oldtimer.....time to revisit what I missed. Thank you for the help. Cheers

This is awesome! All your modells are so meticulously built! I'm building my first model and your content is giving me a lot of insights and methods on what to use and how! Thank you so much! I would love to learn how to build a propeller and a nose. Maybe one day you'll be so kind to share how you approach its construction! Thank you very much again!

Great stuff. Many thanks for posting these informational videos. I really appreciate it!

Wow, thanks! You answered so many questions that I had with this!

Great video. For larger models I use a reverse S with a Tim White hook rather than looping the rubber over the prop shaft. It’s like a figure of 8 , one end that stays on the rubber and the other smaller loop fits on the winder or prop shaft. I don’t use silicone tubing in this situation. I often fly mini vintage and use one and a half hook to peg length braided to stop bunching.

Thank you Mr. Hallman. Great video as always. Now, it is time for me to re-fly my old models with Z hook and longer, braided motors.

I learned a lot today, this is invaluable help whe you live in a country where tere isn't anybody around that can give advice. I had given up, now I'm back to building... will fly. soon. Thanks!

Fantastic Information and Instructions 👍🌷 Thank You Very Much Maxfliart 👍

Thanks for this. I am going to make one for my next model.

Thank you again! Seeing your step by step bends makes it almost easy.

Great Episode. Please keep going.

Tom, this is very very helpful. Many thanks. In time, I would also like hear what you have to say about about prop shaft/nose block bushings. Your videos are literally note worthy.

Great tutorial!

Excelente, gracias por mostrar como se hace!!!

Très jolie vos avion félicitation 🎉

Thanks for your videos. I'm learning a lot. In my club i am the only one who flies models whith a rubber engine. My next goal is to make them myself. Cheers from Spain.

The video is great. Getting better and better！Could you record a video explaining the propeller bearing?

Thank you ...good idea

Nice video

That music 😵‍💫

KZfaq needs to replace the like thumbs up with a love this button!

Bobbins work well and are easily turned from aluminum or machinable plastic,

thank you

max i love you vids and as model airplaner for 65 years i never flew rubber or ff.. but.c/l ...r/c.. as a retired orthodontist you have a correct bending method ,,hold the wire with pliers bend with finger... my i suggest a birdbeak plier ..one beak round one flat not serrations not nicking the wire.. or polish the wire ..im learning about rubber from you ...thx

I make a bobbin which is easy to turn and has always worked well. Have you used bobbins?

So what is your preferred hook and why? Can't thank you enough for these super videos. I have modeled mostly alone for all the years that I have been into it, so most of the stuff I do I learned via trial and error. Now I see the error of my ways! LOL

Wish I’d seen this thirty years ago.

Thanks Tom for these helpful videos. Is the Z hook the better alternative? I'm looking forward to increasing my rubber motor lengths as well.

Is music required for bending? I suppose so as it is piano wire.

Beautiful Videos! We want to make one 3D printable. What should be the approximate maximum flight weight for the 20" model?

If you are using a long motor like 4-5x prop hook to peg length can you put more winds on the rubber per inch than you would if you were only using 1.5x prop hook to peg length? I am asking because this situation would involve putting a larger motor into a relatively short fusalage.

Where are you finding the silicone tubing. If a crocket hook is being used would the z hook still be the appropriate shaft ?

Your aircraft and videos make me want to sell my rc gear, batteries and all!

Will O rings prevent creeping rubber on small models only requiring one loop of 1/8" rubber?

Thank you for passing on your knowledge. I must ask, is there a reason why you are wearing a glove when handling the rubber motor ?

I don't think the Z or reverse S is necessary. Simply having the bar perpendicular to the rubber will do it. Looks like a stirrup, or equilateral triangle. The motor won't twist off, but if the motor gets off center, it will swing around inside the fuselage and bang into things, wasting energy. I devised the "Czech" hook many decades ago and didn't use it because I liked to use an O-ring on the motor. It is also hard to get a tightly wound, lubed motor over that wide part. You can grip it a bit from the end and let some turns out, to form a loop, but I didn't like to let any turns out. If you watch how the rubber twists off the circle, you find that it gets off the side, perpendicular to the circle and therefore twists off in the direction of its twist. Which way it goes is determined by which side of the loop the rubber goes to. It can go up on the shaft or it can go off the end. If it goes up on the shaft it will still turn the shaft, but if it goes off the end, you will have a lot of damaged tissue paper and a motor that is tightly jammed inside your fuselage. Getting it out can cause further damage. I finally settled on a circle with the end overlapping the shaft about a radius. It is made as a right handed pigtail. If the motor goes around to the end side, it will twist toward the shaft, but be stopped by the overlapping end. If it goes toward the other side, it will go around toward the end until it is blocked by the shaft. The end must be spaced away from the shaft enough that the O-ring can get onto the hook. It occurs to me now that the square loop could be made in a right handed spiral with the end overlapping the shaft. One that guarantees keeping the motor centered is a T-pin, with the motor around the shaft. The problem with that is getting the loop of a tightly wound, lubed motor over the far end of the T. Again, letting some turns out will do it. You must be sure that the two strands come around from behind the shaft on the side such that the shaft prevents them from going between the two doubled legs of the T. Otherwise the motor can get off center.

what if the rubber remains on the hook while you are winding it? Will it still climb?

to your opinion is gorila glue good for it 🤔

what type of wood gluo are you using

What is a plane without the prop

good .. its easier then the S hook