Well,
@cbarnes0061 , You are the man ! ! ! ! !
Here is a decent profile pic of (to quote Rob) "My Baby". Thanks to
@Bartman for his blessing, me and
@Decal Dennis are working on a couple of surprises for this Bad Boy.
As you can see, it's not the most colorful plane, but that's OK with me. I'm a subdued kind of person anyway. . . . .
The man who sold me the plane said this is the only weight he had to add to balance the plane. If you look carefully, you can see the two nickel metal batteries that are going to come out in favor of a pair of Lion or LiFe packs.
One thing is fore sure, when I'm done, you won't see this mess 0f wires in this shot. Moving the batteries back will help clean this up nicely.
If you look closely at the lower right hand corner of the picture above, you will see where the wing is not tight up against the fuse. This is the biggest problem I have found with the plane. The wing dowel is not quite lined up properly with the hole in the fuse. I think some VERY careful filing on the back side of the hole will eliminate the stress on the dowel and allow the wing to fit much better. Can anyone think of a reason I could not do this? With two 10-32 bolts holding each wing half on, I cannot think of any reason why not.
Oh yeah, Those of you who are not half asleep reading this by now saw where I said something about moving the batteries back. Well, there is a very good reason for this. I have changed my mind one LAST time. I am going to put my 3W70 twin inside that huge cowl. It will help fill the void inside the front, if nothing else.
I have a few more pictures, but even after I cropped them down as much as I could, the file sizes are still too large. I'll get some more pictures this weekend.
Of course I told him I would pay for all shipping costs and restocking fees. So my aileron servos are going from 167 oz./in each, to almost 300 oz./in each. The best news is that even though the stronger ones are slower by 0.04 sec/60 degrees, they are the same price. Besides, I seriously doubt my slow fingers will ever know the difference.
