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Glued all the ESCs in, fitted and glued down the servo horns, although I am going to see if I can get some of those tiny rubber bands as i dont trust the clip thing that goes through the horns. Need to make sure they dont come off.


Much as I can do today really, all the rest requires the bullet connectors being soldered on to ESC, cant do until I get new wire, need to order some 16awg to extend the ESC wires, I only have 20awg and 14 awg, slightly too thin, sligtly too thick. Then I need to sort mounting the motor, then I guess sticking the fuselage together to continue.

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rhysduck said:
Taking shape nicely.. might have some 16awg here if you need some?
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Its ok I ordered 2 meters of red last night hopefully arrive on Saturday thanks for the offer though

Iv been told I'm going to have to use the flaps on two separate channels and reverse one of them (so no y lead) as I didn't install the servo the other way around which would have meant cutting some foam out

Not an issue though, or they said I could do 4 servo wing and use crow something (a config apparently for the flaps)

Althogh never heard of that, I need to do some reading
 
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I want to be able to cut landing distance slightly, and want to be able to create some drag in the air, but im not sure if I want it to come to a near stop in the air :p

Would you reccomend doing a 4-servo config on with crow butterfly flaps?

or just go down the route of doing a normal flap configuration? I still have to use

Channel1, throttle
Channel2, Ailerons y lead
Channel3, Elevator
Channel4, Rudder
Channel5, Flap1 and 2, one using a signal reverser and both connecting to y lead
Channel6 spare
Channel 7 spare
Channel 8 spare

A guy was trying to explain but I didnt quite get how I would set-up the 4 servo wing, and what the benifits are on this model, I can see some benifits on gliders. This is essentially a glider model almost though

I will read that link you posted.

Although think I'm going to go for standard flap configuration and I can mix with a bit of elevator if needed
 
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Only a small update today, I had to wait for my 16awg wire which arrived this morning, so I extended the ESC wires by soldering the extensions on, I then soldered 3.5mm female bullet connectors on, so I can connector to the motor wires.

I glued the motor and motor mount in, however run in to an issue with excess glue going over the motor, so In the end I cleaned it off, and glued in the plastic motor mount only. I will threadlock the screws and screw in the motor when this has set.

Only thing I am worried about is using two screws to screw the motor to the motor mount, as the mount will only line up to two of the holes to the motor threadholes as the same time. Not sure why they dont this, but apparently other people have been fine with two screws in. As long as this is the case. Then fair enough

I applied a small sticky piece of velcro to the bottom section of the under cockpit compartment, and the other side of the sticky velcro on the back of the ESC, so I now have a removable ESC platform.

Tomorrow I will solder XT60 battery connection on to the ESC power + - wires, and then work out if there is anything I havnt covered so I can start gluing the fuselage together. I am using the stock glue that came with the kit.

Everything else should be accessable through the cockpit container where the battery, reciever and any other modules that I will be using, although I just want to ensure that iv covered everything before I stick it together.

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Yeh was wondering about cooling. Although there is an air intake gap at the underbelly of the nose, which draws air in through the fuselage and the air will pass through out the rear. I have an idea of making one more hole also right near the front of the ESC
 
New bits on order

Servo reverser - £1.90
5 x 300mm servo extension leads - £1.60ish

FrSky D8R-II Plus reciever - £25 delivered

XT60 has been soldered to the ESC power wires, the motor has been mounted back on the motor mount which is now stuck to the fuselage.

Cant really do a lot in terms of gluing together the fuselage to continue yet, well not until I get my Rx anyway, need to test the motor direction and correct if needed before I stick it together.

What is a good glue to use for foam models? just incase this stock stuff doesnt turn out to be the best. Its running out so may need to get some in the future anyway
 
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DJMK4 said:
I want to be able to cut landing distance slightly, and want to be able to create some drag in the air, but im not sure if I want it to come to a near stop in the air :p

Would you reccomend doing a 4-servo config on with crow butterfly flaps?

or just go down the route of doing a normal flap configuration?
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It may depend on your AUW and how much landing space you will have but I would be seriously considering it as an option. It may aswell depend on the wing.. it appears to be quite a high lift generating wing so you should be fine.

Most definitely have a try of some kind of flap configuration :)

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Only thing I am worried about is using two screws to screw the motor to the motor mount, as the mount will only line up to two of the holes to the motor threadholes as the same time. Not sure why they dont this, but apparently other people have been fine with two screws in. As long as this is the case.
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Can you not just make two new holes for the other two screws? :confused:

DJMK4 said:
What is a good glue to use for foam models? just incase this stock stuff doesnt turn out to be the best. Its running out so may need to get some in the future anyway
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I've never had much luck with Foam Safe CA glues, they were never foam safe!
On the models I've built with Depron I use acombination of UHUPOR (its a contact adhesive by nature not a glue but works perfectly fine) and Epoxy. On my SAS EPP models I've always had a little pot of what IIRC is contact adhesive also. It was brown in colour. No idea of it's name though.
 
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Yeh I will use a flap configuration dont worry :) the glue was only if I run out, but I may just make it with the stuff it came with.


The motor mount, so two of the holes line up, the screws have gone through, however two of the holes cover half of the motor thread. Problem is iv glued the motor mount in now, I can "try" and make the holes a little longer for the ones thats only half covering the motor screw hole.

If you get what i mean, although iv read online and people have run in to the same issue they have just used two screws and not had issues.
 
Simplest way of explaining, I can try and get a tiny drill bit and see if I can drill it without it cracking, but I am not sure I should just leave it.

Thick lines are the motor mount holes, thin lines are the motor's thread holes.

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Try and drill it, but if you can, perhaps rotate it a bit, so you can drill clean holes.

Also, put a square of sellotape over the where you are about to drill, and go to your smallest drill bit, and drill carefully. Should be fine.

If you bust it up, you can always make a new mount easily enough.

I used Gorilla glue on mine, was brilliant.
 
Mount is plastic mount that was supplied with the model,I will use a small drill but and hopefully get the other two screw in, thanks for the tip.

Also some more servo extension leads, servo reverser for the one flap and the RX

So now I can continue.


Next tasks extend the two motor mount holes. Test the motor direction plugging in the electrics, configure model on radio, once I have confirmed motor direction is right I can start glueing the fuselage together for the next bits

I'm going to read in at setting a 3 way switch for my flap configuration so that I have flaps in sync with ailerons, flaps and crow

No idea where to start so have to hit up google when I get a sec. As I now have a servo reverser incan use a y lead and use a single channel for the flaps
 
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Why do you need a servo reverser ? Very curious. Can't you either rotate servo 180 degrees or Reverse it on your tx ?

Also what's with all this crow braking. Flaps. spoilers etc. I'm not being rude. Just curious if you already have experience in flying rc model planes.
 
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