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Old 04-30-2012 | 04:53 PM
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Default RE: SE5a 1/5 Scale, can it compete?

Well, I have been trying soooo hard to finish these wings. I have all of the panels finshed, ailerons beveled, and one of them installed. I am so lousy at drilling straight, I liked the thought of the robart hinge, first time trying them. I learned the need to add balsa for the entire length of the hinge to be installed into. So all of the ailerons have been fitted with balsa blocks anddrilled. Idid get one wing setup and installed but it looksreal bad. So tonight I am trying another but this time instead of drilling with a big drill and bit I am going to try using a small file to do the drilling slowly and by hand. It can't be much worse than this!

The first pic is of the aileron with the robart in position, the second shows my low tech, make it work, CA and scraps. The 3rd picture shows how I used a tooth pic and epoxy to make atype of rivet to ensure the servo blocks will hold. The other wing shows my added balsa to the two ribs that are notched for the upper wing servos. I upgraded from Futaba 3003 to 3010's for the aileron servos for the extra torque to drive both ailerons on one servo. This mod elminates the need for servos in all four wing panelsand for ugly Y connectors running down the spar from the upper panel and lets me use a more scale pushrod to connect the upper and lower ailerons.

Remember this is my 3rd RC build (Falcon 56 when I was 17, the Four Star shown earlier in the thread).
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