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  1. 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...
  2. 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...
  3. 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...
  4. AKNick

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

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  5. AKNick

    110" TIMBER Assembly Thread

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

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  8. 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...
  9. AKNick

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  10. 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...
  11. 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...
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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!
  16. 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...
  17. AKNick

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

    @Snoopy1 ran across this, and thought you may like it. Not sure if this is near you at all.
  18. AKNick

    AJ Laser 230z 73" Build Thread

    Still running strong this one! Flew it today and had lots of fun flying XA with it. Made a retro addition to my worn out aileron wire extensions LOL!!! They were starting to feel loose when plugged in so I figured it was time for new ones.
  19. AKNick

    91" SkyWing ARS 300 Assembly Thread

    Worked on my choke setup. Basically found a threaded pushrod I had laying around, put a 2-56 ball link on it. Drilled a hole where I could dangle a piece of wire with a z bend in it attached to the choke lever. Put the cowl on, and checked where it hit and marked and dremeled out a hole large...
  20. AKNick

    91" SkyWing ARS 300 Assembly Thread

    Not really... I tightened the bolts until they just started to squeeze out some RTV, waited a little bit then tightened them all the way. I think tightening them all the way in the beginning is the way to go, thinking that if there was any give in the RTV, it would eventually break down and get...
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