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RE: Show us your Beaver! - 4/23/2007 11:38:16 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hey there War Birdman... Paul from New Zealand here. Got myself the yellow, white and blue KMP Beaver. Just been checking through some of the threads and thought I'd ask you about some of the mods you may have done to yours.
1, Not a real biggie, but can I paint over the covering? Thinking of making mine a Warbird as the Australian Airforce had one with floats. So I'd like to paint it all green or silver.
2, Don't like the wire land based u/c, do you know of any good scale type remidies here?
3, Did you use the factory fuse servo mounts and control rods? Thinking of running SIG type golden rod down the bottom of the fuse and getting the control surface attachments to the inside ( not showing ).
4, Have you beefed up the fuslage from the tail forward to the former at the rear of the main wing ( just asking as this is my first glass one ), extra expoxy around anything?
5, Did you apply any further strengthning the firewall? Like fully epoxy the gaps on the inside

Oh my elevators have a 1/2 inch gap between them and the fuse, and like wise with the Flaps... did yours too? and have you fixed that?

Sorry for the heap of questions ( don't have anyone here locally that knows )
Thanks, Paul

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RE: Show us your Beaver! - 4/25/2007 3:25:50 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hey Paul,

I read one can paint over plastic mylar coverings if it is scuffed up real good. I never tried that and don't know how well it will hold up. I chose just to recover the wings to change color and so I could install blind nuts in the wings for the strut attach points and wing tube. I didn't much care for thier mounting methods (small screw into soft balsa as shown in the instructions.)

As far as the landing gear, I think one can use the wire gear and make up some more scale looking fairings over them. I'm only using mine for a few test flights until I get it all dialed in and then permanently installing the floats on it.

I plan on using the servo mounts depending on how it balances out and making up my own push rods.

I would beef up the tail area where the stabilizer mounts to the fuse and the fuselage to the firewall. (You can twist the firewall the way it comes out of the box.) As far as beefing up the fuse between the tail and wing, I don't think is necessary. It's not meant to be an aerobatic airplane.

Check to make sure the formers or secure. On mine they were hot glued in and some were loose right out of the box.

1/2" gap? Mine is about 3/16"on the elevators to fuse and I did add an 1/8" to the flap ends to close up the gap to the fuse.

Overall I think it's a nice plane. It's just that some of the hardware and mounting methods need to be improved and or modified along with the instructions.


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RE: Show us your Beaver! - 4/25/2007 3:37:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		For all you Beaver fans, Check out this web site. Tons of full scale pics and info.

http://www.dhc-2.com/current_cover_page.htm

(It's the current master index for full scale Beavers)

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RE: Show us your Beaver! - 5/8/2007 6:23:02 PM   
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RE: Show us your Beaver! - 5/21/2007 9:04:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		Scratch built beaver using telemaster 40 wings saito 56 for power setting on great planes 40-60 floats

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RE: Show us your Beaver! - 5/21/2007 9:07:14 PM   
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RE: Show us your Beaver! - 6/5/2007 7:28:02 AM   
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short curcuit in the controller... Would you have thought, that fire would be the element that ends the "life" of a float plane?
By the time I had rowed out to the bird in a littly dinghy, it was far gone. Engine and floats were saved (see next post).

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RE: Show us your Beaver! - 6/5/2007 7:34:57 AM   
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So here is the new and improved beaver (HVP modell of Czech Republic)... complete with flaps, position-, anti collision- and landing lights.. Vario Prop. Brushless motor (no combustion engine allowed on lakes here in Germany), 5S2P Lipos.

Radial engine done with Williams Bros. cylinders that I found somewhere in the farthest corner of a Sydney hobby shop while being on vacation down under.

landing gear mounted for test flights. Now she's on floats and flies beautifully.

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RE: Show us your Beaver! - 6/6/2007 2:57:49 AM   
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Status: offline 		Quick question for all you beaver fans. Especially those that have dealt with Unionville. Have you found it fairly easy to put that kit together? I was thinking of getting the 8 footer as my third aircraft but it would be my first real build although I've had to repair mine a little and I have a 4 star that was given to me that I have to repair as well. My dream is to have a Beaver on floats and that's what I really want but I'm concerned I just don't have the knowledge to put it together myself as a first kit attempt. Any other suggestions are welcome. KMP is really neat but the price of it really puts it out of my league.

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RE: Show us your Beaver! - 6/6/2007 3:23:49 AM   
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Status: offline 		I think you have to take a look to my Beaver kit. They are VERY scale and fly great. You can download the building manual on my website to see the knowledge required to build it ! My float kit will be ready in a couple of week.
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RE: Show us your Beaver! - 6/6/2007 1:21:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		Not to say it isn't a good price for what you get but I just can't afford at my stage to sink 700 dollars into just the kit for a full kit. That's why I was looking at Unionville's

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RE: Show us your Beaver! - 6/6/2007 8:39:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hi there Drew,

My first Beaver was a V-Mar 60-90 sized one.. I found it pretty good looking ( scale like ) and easy to put together. Though they are quite the same as the one KMP or the closterman Beavers, I thought it represent good value.
Once I had built it ( powered really nicely with a Thunder Tiger 91 Four Stroke ) I flew it heaps, actually flew nicer that a trainer, just bigger! I bought a set of great planes 60 sized sport floats later for it.
I decided after a few months of flying it that the nose "looked" too long and I shortened it ( quite easy to do ) by nearly 3 inches. To get the CofG correct all I did was to mount the flight batteries against the engine bulk head and also put in onboard glow system and it's battery well forward too.

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RE: Show us your Beaver! - 6/7/2007 1:55:33 AM   
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Hi there Drew,

My first Beaver was a V-Mar 60-90 sized one.. I found it pretty good looking ( scale like ) and easy to put together. Though they are quite the same