jross
Well-known member
Buddy gave me this after slamming it into the ground. He assured me it would never fly right again. Looks like a pretty easy fix to me. Everything else on the plane is mint, including motor and prop. Would love to get it flying, surprise my buddy and thank him again for the free plane!
Glueing the crack on the right side should be easy, it's figuring out what to do with the compressed side that has me scratching my head. I thought about applying heat to see if I could get it part way home. Also thought about cutting slits in the foam to create a mild accordion effect, move the fuselage into alignment and then fill the resulting V shaped cracks with glue. Maybe spray foam. Hack off the excess later. Alignment doesn't appear to have shifted much up and down.
I figure any thrust angle is applied with the large nose mount for the motor, if there is any. I can use that bottom seam to align the fuselage and should be able to get it bang on.
Any advice? Been putting it off because I can't make up my mind how to do it.
Top View
Right Side View
Bottom View
Glueing the crack on the right side should be easy, it's figuring out what to do with the compressed side that has me scratching my head. I thought about applying heat to see if I could get it part way home. Also thought about cutting slits in the foam to create a mild accordion effect, move the fuselage into alignment and then fill the resulting V shaped cracks with glue. Maybe spray foam. Hack off the excess later. Alignment doesn't appear to have shifted much up and down.
I figure any thrust angle is applied with the large nose mount for the motor, if there is any. I can use that bottom seam to align the fuselage and should be able to get it bang on.
Any advice? Been putting it off because I can't make up my mind how to do it.
Top View
Right Side View
Bottom View