Noteworthy moments in my hobbies and tracking my R/C Plane builds (majority).
Today was a great building session and two Johns along with one other club member who stopped by for a visit today. Peter’s place was a beehive of activity! Through it all I chatted some, they conversed lots, and I kept working away to put in another 2 hrs on my plane. Today was about […]
Building 4 Star 60 Day 39: Fuselage Bottom & Top Covering Read More »
Tuesday was another 2hr building session, which is about my typical. When you look at what I got done to the uninitiated you may think to yourself “It took you that long to do what?”. In order to install the rudder and elevator push rods correctly it takes time. The first step is to figure
Building 4 Star 60 Day 38: Rudder & Elevator Push Rods Read More »
On Saturday I got to work on my plane again and made some more progress on covering and installation of the fuel tank. One of the discussion Peter & I had in a previous session was what I’d like to do with the cockpit, use covering or paint it. I decided to go with painting
Building 4 Star 60 Day 37: Covering, Fuel Tank and Rudder Hinged Read More »
Tuesday was an excellent covering session and nice to get in back to back days working on my plane. Covering is definitely a time consuming task and the tail with all its intricacies took a lot of concentration and patience. Throughout the process I learned how to do things better, namely so that I do
Building 4 Star 60 Day 36: Tail Covered Read More »
Being Family Day in Ontario I got over for an afternoon building session with Peter. I started off where I left off, the rudder. I used the heat gun to shrink the covering over the ‘holes’ in the rudder and then using the markings on the fin figured out where the hinge marks were hiding
Building 4 Star 60 Day 35: Tail Covering Started Read More »
It was great to get back working on my aircraft after a 16 day hiatus due to being away for birthday weekends amongst other things. Though I wasn’t able to make it Peter did tinker a bit as he got the engine mounted, fuel tank set up and the throttle connections hooked up. I forgot
Building 4 Star 60 Day 34: Covering Rudder + Hole Made Read More »
Last Tuesday I got to work on my plane again and been so busy since I’m only now getting around to blogging about it. The first thing we did was install the wire for the tail wheel. This involved first bending the tip of the wire into a 90 degree angle and ‘sanding’ the wire
Building 4 Star 60 Day 33: Tail Wheel & Invasion Stripes Read More »
Saturday I got over to Peter’s for another building session. We started by going over what Peter had done. In order to not ‘waste’ my time on some of the easy but tedious stuff Peter will do some of it for me when he has a chance so that those things don’t hold us up
Building 4 Star 60 Day 32: Hinged Ailerons + Tail Touch Ups Read More »
