TooJung2Die
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Nice. Do you use some sort of jig for building a fuselage that long and thin?
I have a "sort of" jig which I have used on some other planes, it's basically just some plywood right triangles glued to flat pieces that I can then clamp to the bench to hold the fuselage sides straight, but I found I didn't need them this time and it actually turned out almost perfect. This is actually the first fuselage I've ever built with CA, normally I use PVA or 30 minute epoxy which takes a while to cure so it allows parts to be put into a jig, but CA cures quick enough that I could just hold it true with a square to make sure everything was straight. This is really irresponsible and you should never do it, but it worked here...Nice. Do you use some sort of jig for building a fuselage that long and thin?
I was actually thinking about putting my PAW 049 diesel that I have lying around somewhere in a pod so I could make it self-launch and keep the nose. It has the RC carb on it but I could pretty easily just set up a linkage to hold it at full throttle at all times. Problem is it doesn't have an internal tank so I'd have to get one of those 3/8oz Cox tanks (smallest tank I have right now is 1oz and it gives it 15+ minutes of runtime which is too much for a glider launch) And there's also the problem of even getting fuel for the thing now that Davis Diesel is no longer a thing and Ether is weirdly hard to get here in the States...
That looks great!I spent today generating balsa dust. Whole fuselage has been finished off with 300 progressing to 600 grit sandpaper. Wing and tail are yet to be smoothed, that's tomorrow's project. Hopefully that's also the day the mail arrives...
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It'll look better with its clothes onThat looks great!
i was actually thinking about replacing them with sullivan goldenrods since I didn't know whether the pushrods would have problems with binding and rubbing against each other, since the rear fuselage gets pretty dang narrow. Fortunately some test fitting revealed this was not the case. I also considered pull-pull control because that would probably be the least heavy option and for me at least pull-pull is the easiest to set up well, but if the included setup works fine why change it?@speedbirdted - very nicely done - this telemaster is looking great - I just recently renovated a 'moldie' which has a solid pushrod for the 3V tail - I think in the future I would use them more!
I also considered pull-pull control because that would probably be the least heavy option and for me at least pull-pull is the easiest to set up well, but if the included setup works fine why change it?
That's what I wanted to do all the way through. The only change I made was that stupid elevator since it gave me a headache looking at it.On classic designs like this I often like to keep the build faithful to the original design (other than modern electronics). There is something satisfying about going old-school with the builds.
didn't think about that aspect of it! I mostly just do it so if I ever need to redo the cables they're always close to each other and I don't have to go hunting around the airplane to get all of them. But here there's only two to worry about so I guess it isn't as important.Looks nice and clean inside! Nice touch on the servo wire wrapping too - should cut down on any signal cross talk.