ECOMRC Miss Elaine

[IamNabil]

It goes into that slot, right? If you seat it against the edge of the slot furthest from the hinge line, the bottom hole will be above the hinge. At least, it looks that way.

 

[bicyclemonkey]

I got the control horns sorted finally! I plugged the slot with a popsicle stick wood glued in place, then marked the new holes I needed to drill. I drilled pilot holes then ran the screw into the holes, then hardened with thin CA. Let sit for ten minutes then I put some thik CA on the screws before I attached the horn. It's not going anywhere lol.

 

[bicyclemonkey]

Before I install the elevator/rudder I'm going to mount the engine. This way I can stand the fuse on end and not worry about damaging the tail end.

The firewall came with what looks like gray primer already applied.

I'm going to fuel proof the firewall still since it's kind of dry with a epoxy diluted with denatured alcohol. I went ahead and extended the center lines all the way out to help line up the engine. I'll drill the holes and add the blind nuts after the epoxy that way I won't get drips inside the fuselage.

 

[bicyclemonkey]

OK, that was pretty hard to get the mount drilled so the backplate is 125mm from the firewall.

Got it first try...what a chore!

 

[bicyclemonkey]

The firewall has been fuel proofed.

and on the inside too.

 

[bicyclemonkey]

Tru turn spinner...

and got the engine mounted and lined up.

 

[bicyclemonkey]

Well crap, any suggestions here?

 

[bicyclemonkey]

Done, I just bent a new wire but without the spring.

 

[bicyclemonkey]

Starting to show some progress!

 

[KKArioKA]

preeettaaay

 

[bicyclemonkey]

I ended up using small Robart point hinges b/c the CA hinge slots were a mess.

 

[Ak Flyer]

I tried some of those point hinges (the hobbyking versions) and I love them. I used them on foam stuff and they were great. Much more solid control than the tape hinges I had been using. I'm going to use them when I get around to doing the flap mods to my balsa cub. I love point hinges.

 

[bicyclemonkey]

By far the worst part of the build so far was the tail wheel. This part would have sucked even if the factory tail wheel hadn't broke.

I should've used a bracket that screws to the bottom of the fuselage instead of trying to make the factory method work. Like this one on my Tiger Moth:

This way seems like there's more slop in the tail wheel gear with the factory setup.

And because of this, I couldn't get the hinge line any closer together than this:

 

[bicyclemonkey]

OK, on to the next problem...30" of unsupported push rod.

I'm going to replace as much of that length as I can with 5/16" arrow shaft (just b/c I have a bunch laying around).

 

[colorex]

Man, that's coming around beautifully... I'll probably never get into nitro though...

 

[bicyclemonkey]

Thanks! As I was reading the manual before delivery, I didn't think it'd take this long or I'd run into this many issues.

We'll see how this works.

 

[SteveOBHave]

This is looking awesome Keep up the brilliant work! I can't wait to see it fly, it's a damn pretty plane.

 

[bicyclemonkey]

Thanks for the kind words, guys! I should be getting some full body pics of it here in the next day or so.

 

[bicyclemonkey]

Success!!! Sorry for the crappy pics, using my iPhone 3GS

 

[bicyclemonkey]

Not much room to screw down the servos. I got the pilot holes drilled and hardened but I keep stripping the heads of the included phillips servos mounting screws.

I got a pack of 100 of these from RTL Fasteners so I can use a ball driver or at least the short end of an allen wrench. In hindsight, they were even cheaper from Micro Fasteners.

I'm going to run to the local hobby shop to see if they have any so I don't have to wait a week just to mount my servos. If they do, I'll have the extra for the next build.