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JPGale -> RE: T34 Racing (6/16/2007 6:06:18 PM)
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bkf has given you some good tips here. I personally do not do anything other than put lots of glue on the wing joints I also leave the landing gear stock. Make sure your engines are in very good condition, what may be a good sport engine is too worn to be a race engine, we run these things over 16.5k. I replace the push rods and use z-bends (in fact a part of the rules) on the elevator, rudder and ailerons. if you set up servos as per part 18 on page 8 of the manual this will ensure that and then bring the rudder push rod out on that side of the plane. As you go through with the racing you will develop your own ideas and methods for each plane, I always put a flag on the bottom of mine for easy identification (see photo on the customer photos section of www.california-hobbies.com).
You will also need race numbers, I get mine from a club member at SCCMAS (morgan hill), but you can also get them I beleive from Steve at onsightsigns.com (bkf can you confirm). Come out to SCCMAS any Sunday afternoon, there is normally at least 1 or 2 racers there with a T-34, if I have one of mine I will be more than happy to show you everything I normally do. Also check out the SCCMAS.org website, there is a forum there where a fellow racer put build tips for a T-34 up including photos.
If you need planes or just a copy of the rules then contact Kevin Norred (T34RACING@YAHOO.COM) he is the race series director and he also is a world models distrubuter, I get my planes and spinners from him. I will also point him here when I see him tomorrow.
HTH
James
Race #78
It'll do racing team
SCCMAS Morgan Hill
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