How many mistakes do you make building kits??
02-22-2010, 05:16 AM
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RE: How many mistakes do you make building kits??
It's not that if you make mistakes or not it's how many steps you go before you realized you made a mistake!
Noting worse than building a mistake deep with in a model!
Noting worse than building a mistake deep with in a model!
02-22-2010, 08:12 PM
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RE: How many mistakes do you make building kits??
ORIGINAL: heritageman
MISTAKE, that's when your fingers start poking through the balsa sheeting.
MISTAKE, that's when your fingers start poking through the balsa sheeting.
Other mistakes:
1. Putting WAAY TOO MUCH epoxy on the plywood wing joiner and inboard ribs of my Four Star 60. Ended up being unable to fully join the wing panels because it started to cure, and I could not pull them apart. So, I ended up having to fill in the gap, and had a slightly longer wingspan.
2. Sheeted aforementioned P-51D wing with the retract servo inside...unmounted.
02-22-2010, 10:00 PM
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RE: How many mistakes do you make building kits??
ORIGINAL: AmishWarlord
It's not that if you make mistakes or not it's how many steps you go before you realized you made a mistake!
Noting worse than building a mistake deep with in a model!
It's not that if you make mistakes or not it's how many steps you go before you realized you made a mistake!
Noting worse than building a mistake deep with in a model!
...or/and...
...What you do after discovery of the mistake(s)...?
...and...
...How you solve the problem with an unwanted modification...?
Yes of course I have made sometimes stupid mistakes too... my list is probably endless...
Remember one parallel case to combatman's servo installation ooppsss;
I planked both wing halves to a 3 meter glider to later read in the instruction PS’s: We recommend that all servos and linkages to Aileron – Flaps – Air Brakes been properly installed before sheeting the wing!
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02-22-2010, 10:19 PM
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RE: How many mistakes do you make building kits??
Seems I've built a number of planes with warped wings. None of them ever had any funny flying characteristics, and I am wondering if anyone out there ever built a wing that was so warped you could not control it? How warped is really too much? Always makes for more interesting snap rolls!
Most painful mistake: Not securing the throttle flex cable on my Twin Otter. First 18 (yep, 18) flights had the right engine flame out as the cable would vibrate on climb-out and the resulting push-pull motion at high frequency rotated the carb barrel making it act like an air pump back into the fuel line. After fixing that, flew the plane for four years with not one single engine landing.
Most painful mistake: Not securing the throttle flex cable on my Twin Otter. First 18 (yep, 18) flights had the right engine flame out as the cable would vibrate on climb-out and the resulting push-pull motion at high frequency rotated the carb barrel making it act like an air pump back into the fuel line. After fixing that, flew the plane for four years with not one single engine landing.
