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Originally posted by crxmanpat View PostOK, 12S F-22 #2 is ready to maiden. I was hoping to get all of the formation lights done by this weekend, but I only got the verticals in so far. Waiting on MRC to get the P-38 plastic lens covers back in stock so I can do the navigation and strobes in the wing. I want to do all of the lighting wiring in the wing at the same time, so holding off on the formation lights there for now. Some scale detailing I've done to this one:
Painted the struts and interior gear bays white.
Put a 90mm F-16 nose wheel on in place of the stock one.
Printed and installed Radar-Guy's main wheel "hubcaps".
Printed and installed RCJetDude's twin nose landing light mod.
Printed and added pitot tubes.
Did the panel lines in charcoal and sealed with Testors Dullcote.
Painted the exposed servos. Covered and painted the wire run for the vertical formation lights.
Added all the extra decals provided in the kit based on my prior posts about those.
Painted the underside engine panels to match the top.
Filled in the slots on the wings and stabs where the support rods show through and painted.
Maiden on Thursday, then we have the Arizona Electric Festival Fri-Sun. Plan to get a bunch of flights in. Still running a JF90 with a HET 700-60-1120kv for 12S.
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I, admittedly, have had some lousy landings with my Raptor, although the last couple were very decent. I've also had an issue with the nose wanting to veer off to the right when taking off. So bad that it veered off and the right wing hit a pole and was damaged.
So, I repaired the wing and noticed the nose gear being loose. Enough that it would cause steering problems.
Well, repairing the nose gear is no small chore as the foam was molded around the plastic mount. I had to cut quite a bit of foam from around the mount to get it out in order to epoxy it back in.
Repaired now and am printing the nose gear brace.
Tom
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Originally posted by I-fly-rc-aircraft View PostI, admittedly, have had some lousy landings with my Raptor, although the last couple were very decent. I've also had an issue with the nose wanting to veer off to the right when taking off. So bad that it veered off and the right wing hit a pole and was damaged.
So, I repaired the wing and noticed the nose gear being loose. Enough that it would cause steering problems.
Well, repairing the nose gear is no small chore as the foam was molded around the plastic mount. I had to cut quite a bit of foam from around the mount to get it out in order to epoxy it back in.
Repaired now and am printing the nose gear brace.
Tom
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Originally posted by I-fly-rc-aircraft View PostPS: I can't find the .stl for the light housings to mount on the main gear doors. I've read just about every post here and in the 3Dpup thread.1 PhotoPat
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Originally posted by RCjetdude View Post
I got some white 1W LED's off of eBay, made some 3D printed mounts for them which I then just glued to the gear doors. I made a three to one harness and just plugged the nose strut light and two main strut lights into the take off light spot on the MCB-E. I then recessed the foam in the wing where the light fit when the gear was retracted. I think Pat did something similar on his.
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Run the lightest 2S battery you can. I recommend these 450 mah ones I found on Amazon. Make sure you solder plenty of lead to the battery connector as well.
Fish the wires through by sticking the fishing wire in from the avionics bay.
I’ve installed at least 8 of these center burners now. It’s definitely worth ordering f the right connectors if you don’t have them already.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B071H...mob_b_pd_title
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01DD...mob_b_pd_title
Originally posted by john2kx View Post
Any tips or tricks to the center burner install? Should have mine Thursday.
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Originally posted by I-fly-rc-aircraft View Post
Steve made some housings for the main gear doors
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I got an Admiral 10 channel receiver plus satellite and I'm ready to maiden mine. No jitters. I had no steering and rudder jitters with the Spectrum AR610X I tried or this Admiral 10. The original Rx I used unsuccessfully was an old Spectrum AR7000 DSM2. I have no idea how a good Rx could be incompatible with the Freewing blue box but there you go.
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Originally posted by RCjetdude View Post
Here is the file. Pat is right about the FS bird not having lights on the mains but I made this to help with visual orientation for landing if desired.
Tom
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Originally posted by I-fly-rc-aircraft View Post
That's exactly why I wanted the lights, to help with visual below the tree line especially on a overcast day. Thanks Steve although it's an invalid file.
Tom
Not sure what you mean by an invalid file. When you click on the link, it should download the .stl file Steve posted. Then you open the file in your slicer program to create the .gcode file for printing. Works just fine for me.
EDIT - Steve posted just as I was typing. I'm referring to the first file he posted.Pat
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