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Old 12-31-2012, 08:50 PM
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Default RE: Hobby People's VQ-Global 28% Fly Baby ARF

Have had some issues with the hardware in this kit.

The landing gears use pre-installed blind nuts in the fuselage. Three per gear. One of them I could not get the screw into. Not sure whether it had glue residue or some other reason but I had to re-tap it to get the machine screw to go into it.

There are 'spats' that attach to the aluminum landing gears, and the holes to attach the spats are pre-drilled. And they do not match.

Same deal with the wing attaching. Each wing uses one 5mm machine screw and both wings have pre-installed blind nuts and neither one would allow the screw to thread in. I had to re-tap both of those.

Whe I went to install the landing gears, they had pre-drilled holes and on each gear two of the three holes did not match the pre-installed holes and blind nuts on the fuselage. I had to Dremel out the holes on the gears to get them enlarged to allow the machine screws to thread in.

The flat washers included in the hardware package are awful. They are stamped out with jagged edges and off center holes. And the washers meant for the landing gear screws are concave from the die stamping process.

For the wing flying wires to connect and disconnect to the fuselage, they included two jewelry lobster clasps.

The control horns included look like the same ones I have seen in .40 - .60 size kits. And they are brittle, and I have seen them fail before. Not suitable at all for a giant scale airplane.

The kit includes some parts for a rudder pull-pull setup. But again it is designed for a smaller airplane and the metal looks thin and weak. The kit is also supposed to include the cable for the pull-pull but it is missing.

So, instead of using this stuff I have placed an order for $60 worth of Dubro heavy duty control hardware to replace it.
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