Scrapper hit the nail on the head. Almost ALL of us have a bunch of junk/treasure that we have been keeping to use "someday" on the "next project after I finish the next project after this one".
What we should consider doing is letting Fritz' group of kids cash in that "someday" for an important project they have
today. The stuff will get used on an airplane
sooner than we might get to it, and each of us will be doing a little something for the future of aviation at little or no cost.
Most of us airport bums have collected
a lot of stuff over the years. I have drawers full of nuts, bolts, Cotter pins, and "stuff" that I keep to use on airplanes. I have two big pickle jars full of thick wall tube Micarta spacers that I inherited from someone who passed away, and I seem to remember he collected them from floor sweepings at some long-forgotten manufacturing facility. A bag of these spacers will be headed toward the school project in this thread, in addition to a few handfuls of other stuff, in addition to the plywood Im entioned earier if we can get it shipped.
Mike Langdon was one of our most beloved EAA chapter members, and when he passed away I got an early VW engine he had that was different from most of the mainstream later VW engines. I think it was an old 36HP version? As such it was probably absolutely useless for use as a Sonex or Cygnet engine conversion. But I kept it (covered in a special protective layer of dirt) for years, not wanting to abandon the memory of my old friend who walked across Europe with General Patton. Six months ago a friend of mine was visiting, saw the engine, and started shouting how it was the
perfect VW version to replace the one on his historically significant Druine Turbulent (for some mechanical configuration reasons I had no idea of). We put it in the trunk of his rusty little Geo Metro, and not only will he be able to put a rare airplane back in the air, I now have the floor space to stack some tires that I had been given.
Scrapper's Matco tailwheel will be going to an important use on a kids project, where we will be creating a new generation of pilots and homebuilders. Then his Maule tailwheel will apparently be going to help Don's Taylor Mono done faster, putting another historically significant homeubilt airplane in the air. My sheets of plywood and a bag of ancient Micarta spacers will be making a small difference to these kids. Fritz gave them the basic structure of an aircraft (Sainthood, I tell you) but then thanks to his taking a moment to bring this up in public, if the builders and tinkerers on HBA pitched in just a little, we can all play a part in making a class full of kids into aircraft builders.
SO... in my very best
basso profundo James Earl Jones / Mufasa voice: "Simba, all aircraft enthusiasts are connected in the great Circle of Hardware..."
I happened to be on a National Guard field trip close to the airport and decided to go in the EAA 555 hanger. My Sgt had things well in hand so I wandered over not expecting anyone to be there. I had started a hands-on STEM class (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) this fall to try to get some of my kids excited about aerospace careers by designing and building payload rockets. I was fantasizing about having the kids build an airplane. That's what I dreamed about back in high school. We have a fabrication and an automotive class and I thought we might be able to really do this. 
He showed me the wings of another Sonex in the hanger. Every rivet was signed by what looked like a child The wing had actually been build by children. Fritz threw a lot of gasoline on my smoldering fire that day. I went home and asked the auto and fabrication teachers the same question. "What would you think of building an actual airplane?" There was instant excitement. We all asked our kids if they would be interested. Instant (and very rare) excitement.
His amazing generosity in providing a Baby Ace fuselage frame and 0-200 engine was just the start. I'm reading these posts and see the reality that Fritz was talking about. This is a very special community of friends that will go to great lengths to share their passion of flying with the next generation. As amazing dreaming about flying is for these kids, it's even better to have them rub shoulders with people like Fritz. I want them to read your responses and look into a community of friends that are helpful, generous and kind to each other. They don't see a lot of that in the places they frequent on their smart phones. I am not a gooey, emotionally astute or spiritual kind of guy, but when so many seemingly random puzzle pieces fall together in such a short amount of time to do something extraordinary like this, I know there is something behind it. Something good, and I am excited to be a part of it. Thanks for making this crazy idea start to become reality and helping give these kids a life-changing experience. 
