New Toy

Some years ago, Pacer brought out a water based hinge glue. It was in a small bottle and quite expensive. It was easy to use and I never had any problem with it. By the time I'd finished the first bottle, Pacer had stopped supplying it. I emailed them to see if I could get some direct from the U.S.. The reply was prompt and stated that American modellers (modelers?) had found that Pacer Canopy Glue did the job even better and was a lot cheaper. I've used canopy glue ever since. Clean up with water. Never had a sticky hinge. For flat "pinned" hinges, I drill part way with a Robart hinge jig, cut the slot in the usual way, the hole is for the glue bottle nozzle, makes filling the hinge slot fool proof.

When I originally built my EF Edge 50cc, I hinged with Robarts and pva, very easy to do. But within a few months some started to loosen. I managed to pull them all out and reglued them all with epoxy.

It may be that I didn't use enough glue or that with extreme 3d movements it's not up to the job.

I am not planning to use pva again, don't like doing the same job twice!

Only managed to get a couple of hours on the plane tonight

So decided to get a few of the smaller jobs done

Tail wheel was disassembled and then reassembled using blue loctite on all screws, then got the fuel dot fitted and plumbed the fuel tank

Some people have had problems with the supplied hardware, so not wanting to risk it, all control rods and ball links were replaced with Secraft ones

Dont know if it was needed, and I have always used the hardware supplied from Extreme Flight in the past, but didnt want to find out the hard way that there was an issue

Nest job was to make up the extension leads for the elevators and rudder, I use Powerbox cable and crimps, and then braid all cables to prevent them from rubbing against anything

Final job for this evening was to install the elevator servos and make up the control linkages (Installing the servo wasn't fiddly at all )

I use two drill bits the correct size to make screwing the ball links on easier

Can't believe your not done yet! The Extra was finished overnight!

simondean wrote: Can't believe your not done yet! The Extra was finished overnight!

:lol:

Mind now Simon your on sticky ground there - your project and progress.

If I didn’t have to work it would be done by now

Little bit more progress tonight, made the extension leads for the ailerons, and fitted the servos, I have run out of braid so will have to braid the cables when it turns up (Hopefully tomorrow)