Ultimate Bipe Assembly

[combat chicken]

Mines held up, well other than I lost the original wheel, but the set up, it still holding up well.

Well at least you had an original wheel! Could not find one in my box but luckily I had a spare. Ping Pong left out a bunch of stuff when putting parts in the box. Luckily years of being in the hobby you accumulate alot of Junk, er, I mean spare parts.

 

[combat chicken]

Finally got the wires installed, tensioned and cut to length.

 

[combat chicken]

Had to make a template for the DL50 from the template in the instructions.

 

[combat chicken]

Test fit the DL50. Lots of iron!

 

[combat chicken]

Test fit the cowl. Thinking of different options for securing the cowl to the fuse. The instructions are wood screws into blocks glued to the front inside fuse. The only issue with that design is the screws tend to back out of the wood due to vibration. @ChickenBalls has had an an issue with that. Found some 2/56 cap screws with blind nuts so I may go that route.

 

[combat chicken]

Best way to assemble! Not sure how it will look after a few of these though!

 

[HRRC Flyer]

Hey @combat chicken,

I'm sure you've heard this, but if you use a piece of fuel tubing as a washer behind your cowl screws, it will help keep the engine vibration from backing them out.

Hurry up and get that thing done. . . . . . . . . .

 

[Terryscustom]

Good looking plane, I wanted one in the biggest way when they were making them but I was just figuring out how to build a glow plane much less a "giant scale". Always liked the scheme on that plane.

 

[yakken]

U will love it. My brother had one and the fifty flew it great.

 

[ChickenBalls]

Test fit the cowl. Thinking of different options for securing the cowl to the fuse. The instructions are wood screws into blocks glued to the front inside fuse. The only issue with that design is the screws tend to back out of the wood due to vibration. @ChickenBalls has had an an issue with that. Found some 2/56 cap screws with blind nuts so I may go that route.

Bart I think the blind nuts are a good idea, but honestly I think my screws backing out came from when the motor box was coming apart, and I flew it several flights until I noticed what was happening. Since I fixed it, or fixed at it, I ain't done a thing to it, other than give it a thrashing. I'm glad your about to finish yours up, so we can fly em together, before mine meets it's expiration date.