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Happy Days:
Yea, I'll say 'Amen' to that Luke. Thank god for EPP. Marvellous stuff. (and cheap too!)

K.

Happy Days:
Hey Luke,.........

Looking at the picture of your Phase 6 I see you've "Banded" the wings on. ( Good idea I'd say :clap: )
But how have you managed to fit the dowls through the fuse' and avoid the wooden elevator control rod  :?:

I've got the same problem right now in my build. So,........how did you do it? :?

Keith

luke:
well keith,
sorry bout being so slow with a reply havent been on line in ages, i didnt bother with the timber push rods, i just uses ordinary wire rods with extra formers down along for suppoort (thats another reason why she took so much lead to balance her  :oops: ) what i did then was to put an extra triangular plate of lite ply to act as a doubler to the front of where the wing sits , why did i do this ???? becouse after my first flight i came in a little hard with one wing down and tore out the plate foe the nylon bolt. so i reckond that sticking in dowels and using rubber bands would be better (theres a little play on them enough to soak up a bad landing, takes from the appearance  though

Happy Days:
Well many thanks for all that info Luke.

Anticipating the problems you spoke of vis heavy landings I too have put in extra doublers. In fact I've put them throughout the whole of the front section and back to just behind the wing saddle area. I've also reinforced the floor of the nose and lined the whole front section with a layer of glass. I figured that rather than use lead as ballast I might as well use the reinforcing as ballast. (I did think of calling this model "Bomb Proof" A friend said he thought  'Nuke Proof might be better :lol:  My wife recons no model is Keith Proof ...........she says I break everything I fly!)
(She's not very understanding!:roll: )

Left with the problem of how to get the banding dowels through the fuse, and past the wooden elevator control rod, I've used parts of the original metal aileron control rods instead of wooden dowels (I've fitted servo's in the wings to operate the ailerons.)
Being smaller diameter than wooden dowels I can just get the metal rods through the fuse, beneath the saddle doubler, and over the top of the elevator control rod. It's all a bit of a tight squeeze, but so far I can't see any reason why it wont all work. :?:

So thanks again for coming back to me Luke. I've just finished covering the tail feathers so it shouldn't be long before it's time to maiden her.  :)  
Watch this space, I'll keep you posted.

Keith

luke:
no problem keith , i dont know if this helps but when i was mounting the servos i put them as far forward as possible (past the wing seat, and as low down to the floor as possible) i find that i go through phases like that aswel (cant keep anything in the air but it passes) good luck with finishig and test flying it keith,
ill keep an eye out for the report
tell me how  you find the elevator response

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