Thank ya, I upgraded to a AR10360t+ really like the plus seems like I can get more throw and boy does it work great. Next up is to install the 3D cockpit install a HUD light set for the canopy
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Originally posted by rifleman_btx View PostIm sure someone has tried or even done it by now, but has anyone swapped the wing actuators for standard sized servos?I solemnly swear to "over-celebrate" the smallest of victories.~Lucky B*st*rd~
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Originally posted by Delorean74 View PostHi: While not in use, I’d like to mount mine on a wall or ceiling. Are there recommendations or kits available to do either? Thanks!
I do not know of anything commercially available; however, I see other guys on U-toob and in photos, that are doing just that.
If you find a system or come up with one on your own, please post that solution.
Best, LBI solemnly swear to "over-celebrate" the smallest of victories.~Lucky B*st*rd~
You'll never be good at something unless you're willing to suck at it first.~Anonymous~
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I hang all of my planes from the ceiling. I keep a 3-step ladder in the garage just to put them up or down. It's easier than you may think. As far as how to hang them so the string doesn't bite into the foam and leave a string track... don't do that!
Always look for hard points outside of the plane and many times, with jet noses, on the inside. Prop planes are relatively easy. I usually hang them from the prop shaft and from the tailwheel looped over the stab joiner each side. The vertical fin or rudder end up keeping the plane straight.
On jets, you don't have the prop shaft. But, typically, you have either a nose cone tongue or a canopy tongue. They're usually foam, but some are made of wood or plastic. Simply loop the string around the tongue, refit the canopy or nose cone and hang it. Also typical, you have the plastic exhaust in back to loop the string. For the foam tongues, I wrap them with fiber tape. Make sure the fiber is running perpendicular to the string so as to do the best job of protecting the foam tongue. Also, the string barely makes an indent where it exits the crack between the nose/canopy and the fuse. You can also add fiber tape to these areas or re-enforce to your specs. If you're really concerned about small dents in the seam, you can use dental floss for the string as it is very thin and strong.
Something else to watch for... always try to hit a ceiling joist when installing hooks. I use proper wall anchors if I absolutely can't get near a joist. Of course, joists almost always run parallel to each other at even distances apart. This usually makes all the planes also hang parallel unless you have the need to get creative.
And this, sometimes if there is no tongue or outside hard point, I have used the forward battery tray or any other inner hard point and drilled a hole in the fuselage directly above the connection. To get the string thru this small hole I clamp a portion of the string in my vise and super glue about 3' of the string while pulling tight. Let it dry. Now you have a section of strong straight string that will easily poke thru the hole.Fly low, fly fast, turn left
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Originally posted by f4u ausie View PostI use a 1inch. 25mm or about. Wide. Elastic. And just go under the fuse Wider is better. Does not mark the foam.. it's easy peasy.. to get it down. For upcoming sorties
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