World's Cheapest ARF

Still, big bolts for the application...

All this talk about this uber-wonder ARF is making my credit card talk to me in the middle of the night... heheh

"The OTHER Kevin in San Diego" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

I used 6-32 steel bolts for landing gear retention. I've seen more models damaged from the gear coming loose than by bending the gear when it doesn't come loose.

Ed Cregger

Marlowe:

I read your post with considerable interest. I too bought a Bandit, but I put an OS 46 AX on it! The plane weighs around 4 plus pounds, so I'll have to be easy on the power (which I have way too much of).

I have confined my power plants to an OS 40FX, 46 AX, and a FS-52S. I figure these three engines should last me the rest of my life, and I'll be able to will them to by heirs. I did have a 40LA that I sold cheap to a poor unfortunate who promptly destroyed it. Now I wish I had kept it for the Bandit.

Ciao,

Mr Akimoto

I flew mine last Friday. Flies great. Landing gear is somewhat bouncy. The OS 48FS seems to fly it great but the carb is somewhat high in relation to the tank causing dead stick conditions. I have now mounted it to the bottom of the motor mount rails. This should help the leaning problem.

I was thinking of making this my winter flyer. But since I mounted a four-stroke engine and the model is covered with sticky-back covering, it would probably be better off spending the winter hanging from the ceiling. I'll fly my trusty SPAD Dominator off the ice when I need a flying fix.

Good flying, desmobob

Interesting that mounting the motor just about 1/4" lower would mak that much of a difference.

If one mounts any fuel tank, in such a way that the tank centreline i at the centreline of the carb, checked with the thrustline of the plan level, then what happens when the plane is flying and the thrustline i NOT level ?

I usually put the tank wherever it fits, then mount the engine i whatever position (right side up, rotated sideways, whatever..) I lik it to be and that's it. I checked my set-ups and the differenc between the tank centreline and the carb centreline varies from 1/ inch above to 1 1/4 inch below. In one case, the fuel tank is 6 inche behind the engine. No running problems.

I do make sure that I set up the running performance at half full tan and I also hold the plane "prop up" with 3/4 throttle to see if i leans out, and at idle, I hold the plane level and then point it dow and up about 20 degrees. Most of my engines can be started by a quic rotation CLOCKWISE of the spinner after priming. So what gives here

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You simply haven't ran across the right engine with a very low fuel tank, that's all.

Also, if you live in a warmer climate, it eases the demands on the installation a bit. But I am just assuming that you live in a warmer climate than some of us.

If you are an aerobatics pilot who demands that the engine run remain constant whether inverted or upright, you will quickly notice a difference in how your engine runs if your tank centerline is off from the carb's spraybar centerline.

Ed Cregger

You haven't tried running a not-quite-broken-in-yet Super Tigre G51 inverted with the carb spraybar even with the bottom of the fuel tank.... :-)

All my two-stokes start with a little flick of the spinner, too (easiest are TT .40 & .46 Pros and O.S. 1.60 FX).

Good flying, desmobob

I am in Utah at 5000 feet. Hot in summer, cold in winter. Miles an

miles of nothing. I do quite a bit of aerobatic flying and still find that my set-ups ar OK. Guess I have been lucky, huh

-- indoruwe

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No, I would guess that our standards of "okay" are vastly different.

I never pictured you living in Utah.

Ed Cregger

Hmm .... where did you think ?

Interesting, when you read these posts, you "kind of" get some ide about who is who. Got to know Martin M fairly well now, but like wh really is this Akimoto guy

-- indoruwe

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Whether accurate or inaccurate, I pictured you being of Asian or Polynesian extract. Not because of your posts, but because of your name.

I also realize that Native American might be a reasonable guess. But all of that is only reasonable in my mind with my background. After all, I'm just guessing.

Now that I think of it, I have read some of your posts for a while now and I do remember you being from Utah. Sorry about that.

Mr. Akimoto shall forever remain a mystery to us all...

Ed Cregger

Ed, haven't you heard, he's a retired U.S. Navy Lt. Commander. Har.

Bill(oc)

You're correct. 31 flavor, like so many of my k> he's a retired U.S. Navy Lt. Commander. Har.

Yeah, I read that a while ago, except for the fact that he calle himself a "pilot", which is strange, since all of my collegues wer called "naval aviators"

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I just finished up some final little details on mine. With the heavy Du-Bro composite main gear bolted on instead of the stock wire mains, mine weighs 5 lbs. 14 oz. (Magnum XL52RFS on the nose). Geesh! My new Twinstar with two ST .34s only weighs three more ounces!!!

I can't wait to fly this thing. :-)

Good flying, desmobob

Be sure and give us a first flight report, Ducati Roberto!

Ed Cregger

Will do, Mr. Cregger, but it might be about four months before the weather gets agreeable enough (for R/C'ing or motorcycling) here in northern NY. =:-0

I usually get in a couple of flying days during the winter. I generally drag a SPAD Dominator out on the ice with me on an ice fishing outing or two, or put skis on my Super Frontier Sr. for a genuine flying outing. I'd bring the new lead-sled trainer, but I don't know how that shelf-paper covering would hold up to the cold (or how willing the Magnum XL52RFS would be to start and run).

Good flying, desmobob

I just got one yesterday. I glued the wing together and it has zer

dihedral - it almost looks like it has very slight anhedral - but s little it won't matter - I wonder about zero dihedral for a trainer.

The wing dowels were laughable. One looked like a dog chewed on the en and the other looked like a twig. Not a problem, I plan to replace mos of the hardware anyway.

Has anyone flown one yet

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Have a few of them for "giving stick time to kids". Surprising well behaved trainer. Smallish rudder, but was surprised how good it reacted using the rudder to make a turn. Read all the posts about this unit. A lot of "mods" have to be made, due to a bit of poor workmanship, but then for less than 40 dollars ..... Zero dihedral .... Same with ours, no problems, unless you are looking for a wing with dihedral. It does perform like a zero dihedral wing. Very little tendency to go upright, or none at all. As a matter of fact, one of our units has negative dihedral, just a bit, wing joiner was kind of loose in the cavity. Flies OK. HTH