Post by Jef on Mar 4, 2014 23:30:14 GMT
When I bought my Thermik Excel, it had already been badly bodged.
There are a few areas that need some pretty severe fixing.
It was cheap though
The v-tail servo shoulders had been mounted on the top skin of the fuselage a foot from the tailplane, with the body of the servos hanging inside the fus.
As it is now an electric model, the original place for the servos is taken up with batteries. So the obvious place to put some servos now, is in the tailplane surfaces themselves. This work has started in earnest (at last, so some good is coming of the poor weather / short days / dark evenings) and is progressing nicely. However, I don't yet have a plan in place for dealing with the two servo-shaped holes a foot from the tailplane.
I suppose it might be possible to roll some 1/64" ply and cyano it in place inside the fus, but what should I use as a filler (to get the repair near invisible) if I can do that?
Thanks in advance,
Jef
There are a few areas that need some pretty severe fixing.
It was cheap though
The v-tail servo shoulders had been mounted on the top skin of the fuselage a foot from the tailplane, with the body of the servos hanging inside the fus.
As it is now an electric model, the original place for the servos is taken up with batteries. So the obvious place to put some servos now, is in the tailplane surfaces themselves. This work has started in earnest (at last, so some good is coming of the poor weather / short days / dark evenings) and is progressing nicely. However, I don't yet have a plan in place for dealing with the two servo-shaped holes a foot from the tailplane.
I suppose it might be possible to roll some 1/64" ply and cyano it in place inside the fus, but what should I use as a filler (to get the repair near invisible) if I can do that?
Thanks in advance,
Jef
....lol
that the holes in the fus would make a great place to access the plugs and sockets for the v-tail servos, so instead of filling and painting (and we all know what that would have ended up looking like) I popped some heat shrink on the plugs and sockets for security then made a tapered rolled (0.4mm) ply hatch and covered that with hologram film.
