Hello Everyone,

Well, I finally pulled the trigger and bought a kit I've been dreaming about for many, many years. When I was at Joe Nall 2012, I stopped by the Balsa USA trailer and proceeded to plop my credit card down for a new 1/3 scale Ercoupe kit. They had already sold the one they brought with them from Wisconsin, so I had to have it shipped. Three huge boxes arrived last Friday 5/25/12 about 2:30 in the afternoon. By 2:33 I had opened all of the boxes and started looking everything over. Thankfully Chris Wegner had sent me a copy of the build manual so I know what I was looking at. Thanks Chris!
The first box I opened was the landing gear parts. I was expecting to find five cast aluminum parts, but there were only three. I was missing both upper main gear legs. I had the swing arm parts, but not the mains. Oops… I called BUSA and told them about the problem. They were very helpful and offered to send them right away.
Normally, the landing gear is not really needed until the middle/end of the build. Except in this kit… They are needed to be used to mark the mounting locations on the main center section spar on step 5 of the build manual. I was bummed out because I had received a “hall pass” from the girl to spend all Memorial Day Weekend in the Man Cave / Workshop.
Needless to say, I moved forward anyway..