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  1. AKNick

    91" SkyWing ARS 300 Assembly Thread

    Prop polishing!! It’s been a few days, My lacquer has had time to set and fully gas. Used 2000 wet sand paper, followed by Meguiars scratch x 2.0, followed by more sanding, 3m ultrafine foam polishing pad with more buffing compound watered down and presto! I was pleasantly surprised how well it...
  2. AKNick

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    Looks very nice! Herding cats is an understatement though. So many people with ideas and input, yet never respond to e-mails, no-shows for projects, excuses, never step up to the plate to actually help the club unless it's to their own personal benefit, and still complain that we are not...
  3. AKNick

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    I found that if you hit the little "x" on the top right of the add, you say why you don't want it, and it will say ads removed by google. .. no idea how long that last for, but I refreshed the page and they didn't come back... Oh and it was FIVE ads at the top! Banner, sub banner, and then three...
  4. AKNick

    91" SkyWing ARS 300 Assembly Thread

    All I have left is engine baffling! Then it's run time and a flight!!! :mario-banana: It's only been three weeks... I even had a few tiny bumps along the way and some bonus painting/glassing items. All of this is made possible for the level of completion SkyWing has put into their airframes. I...
  5. AKNick

    91" SkyWing ARS 300 Assembly Thread

    Wheel pants!! What beauties these are. I’ve had terrible luck in the past with these never lining up or staying on well. These fit pretty good, and was easy to level them. You don’t have to take the wheels or axels off to install or remove them. I used blue locktite on the screws and welders...
  6. AKNick

    91" SkyWing ARS 300 Assembly Thread

    Wheel cuffs! First off, my ARF came with two left wheel pants... darn. Talked with Tim at NWRC, who had run out of stock on these. I said I could wait, but eventually would like a set. After a couple days he said he think he found a solution. One was being returned to him due to box damage, and...
  7. AKNick

    Alert! CALL TO ACTION: FAA threatening new regulations!!!

    Well... in an indirect way they are by hindering our hobby with adding blanket regulations without the supporting data to say that what we are doing is unsafe. The threat is that there appears to be a complete disregard for the minority, which is why we need to keep speaking up for ourselves and...
  8. AKNick

    Alert! CALL TO ACTION: FAA threatening new regulations!!!

    Sent
  9. AKNick

    110" TIMBER Assembly Thread

    Here is another video I spent way too much time over editing. LOL
  10. AKNick

    Ads

    To me it seems like the banners are larger and now are in between the GSN banners on the home page. Either they are just bigger, or they added a few more in between posts.
  11. AKNick

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  12. AKNick

    110" TIMBER Assembly Thread

    The flaps are very effective. Floats around to a crawl in the sky on 1/4 flaps, Full flaps are amazing at around 45-50deg (I think). Little throttle bump to maintain altitude decent rate on final works like a dream. It does balloon quite a bit requiring a down elevator stick input all the time...
  13. AKNick

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  14. AKNick

    91" SkyWing ARS 300 Assembly Thread

    Thanks guys! Took a while. Kinda messed it up a bit when lightly scruffing up the paint for the clear coat. But it still turned out pretty nice. Need to wait a few days before polishing the clear coat a bit to clean up the lines. Worked on my antennas... I’ve been staring at them for weeks...
  15. AKNick

    91" SkyWing ARS 300 Assembly Thread

    Venturing into the unknown... painting a prop. Feels wrong scruffing up and using rattle cans of automotive paint to do this... lol! We’ll see how it turns out once everything is set up. I’m going to clear coat it afterwords too. Gotta try new things sometimes. So far, it’s working out...
  16. AKNick

    110" TIMBER Assembly Thread

    Well you can achieve 40deg with the 1.5” arm. Geometry is not that great. Plus if you want more deflection for flaps I suggest the 2” arms. It works out quite nice that way.
  17. AKNick

    110" TIMBER Assembly Thread

    Which is why I went with the 2” arms and used the 1.75” hole. A 1.5” arm seemed to short to me as well. Just didn’t feel right to me at deflection, seemed like the servo was going to get its butt kicked.
  18. AKNick

    110" TIMBER Assembly Thread

    Very nice! Servos look pretty. What are they again? My CG is close to 5” from the leading edge without fuel now.
  19. AKNick

    91" SkyWing ARS 300 Assembly Thread

    I’m using the 1267. If it does fail, it would just stick for a second based on what I’ve seen.... but it has worked well for others and it’s super popular so we shall see!
  20. AKNick

    91" SkyWing ARS 300 Assembly Thread

    Next job indeed! Fine tuning surfaces to match each other. Setting EPAs and deflections. The miracle throw meters are nice, you have to be gentle because there centering is picky, need to make a fixture that opens the jaws up a little. But works for now. Used a little digital protractor to match...
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