Turbojoe
Elite member
It's moving right along now! I got the top and bottom hatches completely finished along with their magnet catches. Added and sanded spackle at the tab and slot areas. It was then time to do a trial fit of everything and setup the radio. I'm using a Lemon 6ch DSMX RX and a Castle Creation Micro 10 ESC. I soldered the 2mm connectors on to the motor and replaced the 3mm on the Castle ESC with 2mm. At some point I'll have to decide if I want to use the tiny red JST battery connectors that I loathe or use the XT 30's that I had started putting on most of my smaller packs. For now I'm using an adapter I made. The XT's take up more room and I might have to use JST.
Nose gear works perfect. In fact I may move the pushrod out a hole at the gear as it has a really tight turn radius.
That little motor is wicked too! With a 2S 370mah Turnigy Nano-Tech pack at storage voltage and the 6x3 prop the assembled fuse will pull vertical out of my hand if I let it. That prop is SHARP too! I have the cuts to prove it!
Weight so far as you see it in the pictures is 122.1 grams. That's with 2 servos, ESC, RX, 2S battery and landing gear with wheels. Just for grins I weighed ALL of the remaining wood including the sheets the parts are still nested in and it was 53.7 grams for a total of 175.8 grams or 6.2 ounces before final sanding and . I just weighed both rolls of covering as shipped in their plastic bags and they total 60.3 grams. That gives me a total AUW before deducting waste wood and covering backing and shipping bags of 236.1 grams or 8.32 ounces. I expect it to come out closer to 7.5 ounces when all is said and done. In any case there is more than enough power to fly it.
On to the wing sometime tomorrow.
Joe
Nose gear works perfect. In fact I may move the pushrod out a hole at the gear as it has a really tight turn radius.
That little motor is wicked too! With a 2S 370mah Turnigy Nano-Tech pack at storage voltage and the 6x3 prop the assembled fuse will pull vertical out of my hand if I let it. That prop is SHARP too! I have the cuts to prove it!
Weight so far as you see it in the pictures is 122.1 grams. That's with 2 servos, ESC, RX, 2S battery and landing gear with wheels. Just for grins I weighed ALL of the remaining wood including the sheets the parts are still nested in and it was 53.7 grams for a total of 175.8 grams or 6.2 ounces before final sanding and . I just weighed both rolls of covering as shipped in their plastic bags and they total 60.3 grams. That gives me a total AUW before deducting waste wood and covering backing and shipping bags of 236.1 grams or 8.32 ounces. I expect it to come out closer to 7.5 ounces when all is said and done. In any case there is more than enough power to fly it.
On to the wing sometime tomorrow.
Joe