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10-15-2007, 03:45 PM
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| Uber Contributer   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Wirral, Merseyside, UK Age: 18
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 |  EF 58" Extra-300 BUILD THREAD -- ELECTRIC!
Hi All, The extra's are now here and ready to go and as I believe Dan has sold out of all of his 1st shipment of 58" extras!!! I am hopefully receiving mine tomorrow, it is the red and blue version and is going to be all electric powered!!   Here is my setup: Torque Revolution Motor and Airboss 80A speed Controller running on an APC-E 15x8 prop Flight Power Evo Lite 5S1P 3700mAh batteries Hitec HS225MG servos on ailerons and elevator and a Hitec HS5625 on rudder Hitec Electron 6 receiver I am hoping for an all up weight of around 5.5lbs and it should be ballistic on this with 10minutes plus flying time from the batteries. As I believe the model goes together really easily and can be ready to flying within a day, tedious work such as the cutting of the trim on the tail plane to mate to the fuz is done etc etc I will be providing a build thread and lots of pics and videos very soon. any questions fire away, cheers Graham 
__________________ Graham "Rolling" Roscoe Last edited by Graham; 10-17-2007 at 05:33 PM. Reason: change to write up |
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10-15-2007, 10:46 PM
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| 2009 NE Huckfest Huckmeister  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Fremont, NH Age: 23
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| Re: EF 58" Extra-300 BUILD THREAD -- ELECTRIC!
How's the covering? I am interested in this as a glow plane, and I'm wondering if the covering will hold up better than it does on Fliton stuff and the Reactor.
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10-16-2007, 04:55 PM
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| Uber Contributer Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Wirral, Merseyside, UK Age: 18
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| Re: EF 58" Extra-300 BUILD THREAD -- ELECTRIC!
Covering quality issuperb and has a really nice finish. The model is brilliant, the quality is awesome and the finish and lightness is unbelievable, I cannot wait to fly this thig the power is going to be ballistic.!!!! Some pics of the build so far, this thing is going togther sooo easily, loads of extras are included and alot of the tedious work has already been done!
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10-16-2007, 07:03 PM
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| Bad-ass Super Contributer!  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Cumming, Georgia Age: 41
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| Re: EF 58" Extra-300 BUILD THREAD -- ELECTRIC!
Nice pics Graham. Looks like you have made quite a bit of progress. Covering is Ultracote. Last edited by EXTREME FLIGHT; 10-16-2007 at 07:05 PM. Reason: spelling error |
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10-17-2007, 02:52 AM
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| Uber Contributer Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Wirral, Merseyside, UK Age: 18
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| Re: EF 58" Extra-300 BUILD THREAD -- ELECTRIC!
cheers Chris and an absolutely awesome model as usual from you Out of interest where did you mount your speed controller, just want to make sure I get it right so it doesn't over heat etc. cheers
__________________ Graham "Rolling" Roscoe Last edited by Graham; 10-17-2007 at 02:53 AM. Reason: spelling error |
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10-17-2007, 12:18 PM
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| Flyin' Around   Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: england
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| Re: EF 58" Extra-300 BUILD THREAD -- ELECTRIC!
A few pics of my build guys. You can see my ESC is mounted just behind the bulk head graham 1 (512 x 384).jpg 2 (512 x 384).jpg 3 (512 x 384).jpg 4 (512 x 384).jpg 5 (512 x 384).jpg 6 (512 x 384).jpg 7 (512 x 384).jpg 8 (512 x 384).jpg extra 2.jpg |
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10-17-2007, 05:12 PM
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| Uber Contributer Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Wirral, Merseyside, UK Age: 18
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| Re: EF 58" Extra-300 BUILD THREAD -- ELECTRIC!
Well after another few hours of doing the little other bits shes ready to go, made up with it what an absolute pleasure it is to build, the quality is just awesome, everything goes where it should and with 100% accuracy. The bad news is I gotta wait until the weekend to fly it now!  but as soon as i do I will get some vids and pics together. final pics of the build:
__________________ Graham "Rolling" Roscoe Last edited by Graham; 10-18-2007 at 12:29 PM. |
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10-18-2007, 08:13 AM
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10-18-2007, 05:06 PM
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| Flyin' Around Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: england
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All done  Just got to get me old man to cut some graphics for it Got this thing on the scales and the AUW is.............. 5.1lbs!!!!!!!! That's lighter than the glow set up  Going to get it hooked up to the watt meter later and see what this set up pulls!extar 5n.jpg extar 6n.jpg extra1.jpg extra 2 (512 x 384).jpg extra 3 (512 x 384).jpg |
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10-20-2007, 01:43 PM
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| Uber Contributer Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Wirral, Merseyside, UK Age: 18
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| Re: EF 58" Extra-300 BUILD THREAD -- ELECTRIC!
Well WOW is the only word that can describe this plane, it is simply awesome, so smooth and an pleasure to fly, no bad vices and performs the book, I love it!!! What you've all been waiting for, pics from the maiden and following flights:
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