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RE: GROUP BUILD - Top Flite Giant Scale F4U ... - 12/22/2005 2:14:31 PM   
wulf190



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Status: offline 		Here's a pic of one I found at REI. Close, but not quite perfect. I think if you look around you might find one a bit more rectangular.


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RE: GROUP BUILD - Top Flite Giant Scale F4U ... - 12/22/2005 6:15:28 PM   
wulf190



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Status: offline 		Or, there's these little guys. They stick right on the inside of your sunglass lenses and probably right on for size on the canopy there.


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RE: GROUP BUILD - Top Flite Giant Scale F4U ... - 12/23/2005 1:48:52 AM   
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was able to get the stab in place last night, and the fin tonight,
I got to work on the compartment in the fuse for the switch,& valve. getting there a little at a time.
George

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RE: GROUP BUILD - Top Flite Giant Scale F4U... - 12/23/2005 1:27:46 PM   
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Status: offline 		Looks good George. Once your glassed, I think you're about halfway finished. I can almost smell the Zpoxy from here

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RE: GROUP BUILD - Top Flite Giant Scale F4U ... - 12/23/2005 9:52:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		Looking good George, just don't get in a hurry , from hear to the finish plan your steps so you don' have to back up, take it from the back up kid

Will try to post some pic of my build next week

MARY CHRISTMAS AND HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR

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RE: GROUP BUILD - Top Flite Giant Scale F4U Corsair - 12/27/2005 1:11:42 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hi Bossman, I am at the point of sheeting the wings on my Corsair. Some how it just did not
feel right without sheer webs in the outer pannels so I added them, both sides of the spar out
to the aileron servo bay. Can't hurt......right?

Mike

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RE: GROUP BUILD - Top Flite Giant Scale F4U Corsair - 12/27/2005 2:10:35 AM   
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Status: offline 		OK guys, I got one for you , I was talking to one of my club members todayat the LHS discussing Arrowshafts vs 4-40 threaded rods, he is of the opinion that with the threaded rods as PUSHRODS that i'm asking for trouble even going down inside the plastic tube supplied in the kit, he claims with the ANT. running down the length of the fuse that there will be all kinds of interferrence,so therefore his answer to eliminate this is to use ARROWSHAFTS.

ANY ANSWERS PRO or CON ------Most welcomed

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RE: GROUP BUILD - Top Flite Giant Scale F4U Corsair - 12/27/2005 2:52:42 AM   
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Hi Bossman, I am at the point of sheeting the wings on my Corsair. Some how it just did not
feel right without sheer webs in the outer pannels so I added them, both sides of the spar out
to the aileron servo bay. Can't hurt......right?

Mike


Mike.
LOL, I had the same feeling when I built my wing. Yes the webs made the wing stiffer at that point in the construction but when the sheeting is applied you really don't need the webs. Depending on what you used the weight added shouldn't be much.

Pete


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RE: GROUP BUILD - Top Flite Giant Scale F4U Corsair - 12/27/2005 2:57:50 AM   
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Your frind is Right IF you have metal to metal fittings, and you are useing the old am radio's that is my under standing from the radio fokes and my experiance. Sence I have gone to FM and the computer radio I have used both and never had a problem, I used the metal rods in my first corsair, aand Iam using them again in the current build.

please E-mail me your address and I will send you the dwg of the muffler as I am tried of fighting with this scanner...


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RE: GROUP BUILD - Top Flite Giant Scale F4U Corsair - 12/27/2005 11:59:13 AM   
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RE: GROUP BUILD - Top Flite Giant Scale F4U... - 12/27/2005 1:15:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		George, I agree with Bob, I think you're safe with the kit pushrods and no metal-metal contact too. You've got a good radio.

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RE: GROUP BUILD - Top Flite Giant Scale F4U Corsair - 12/27/2005 3:26:21 PM   
M_Callahan


 

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Status: offline 		Thanks Pete, like I said it didd'nt feel right. Every thing I have built in the last four years has
had sheer webs. I hope to have the wing sheeting finished today. Retracts will be here Thursday
and I can start on the fuse.

Mike

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RE: GROUP BUILD - Top Flite Giant Scale F4U Corsair - 12/27/2005 3:36:05 PM   
rt3232


 

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What size are you building 1/5 or the 1/8 just cerious


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