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First thing I did with this bird was to try and put the gear on. I ran into a few issues here, first there were no main gear mounting screws to go into the metric tapped angles and blind nuts. No problem there, just drilled for new american bolts and installed as usual. Second issue I ran into is that the tail wheel mount is recessed into the fuse, which is nice, BUT, the supplied tail gear was too long to fit into the recess. agin no big problem, just a cut on the bandsaw and round the edges with the grinder.
Next item was to start assembling the tail feathers. this went very easy with the supplied hardware and some common sense. when it was time to mount the horiz.stabs to the fuse I had two issues, first was that there was no hole to run the servo wire into the fuse, and second, the tabs that hold the stab on were too big for the precut notch in the stabs. both of these were easy fixes but took some time to evaluate the best approach.
I must say that despite the issues I have come acrost I still am happy with the purchase, and am not "b!t" at all. I then proceded to mount the engine. I am running a DL-55 and it bolted up nice and easy. I am going to go over the firewall with glue and pin the firewall for added strength.
My next issue that really got my attention was the fact that the wing retention is by rubber bands. I do NOT like this, so I am going to drill out the wings and install a 1/4-20 blind nut to accept the new nylon retention bolt. to make this work I will have to make a ply plate to mount in the fuse for the bolt head to seat on. this is an item that should be addressed my the mfg. in my opinion. more on the new wing mounting system later.
That's as far as I got last night, hopefully I can get some time to work on it tonight or this weekend. |
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Rob-
Rob-
this has been corrected and all are now thumb screws for retention..We had to buy out the existing inventory from the supplier who was taking direction from the prior dealer.. this was the fist thing we changed.. ALL are now as they should be.. in todays times you would have to be a little crazy.. ok alot crazy to produce planes with rubberbands. ALL done here.