ORIGINAL: bikerbc
.I have been thinking about the Hanger 9 set....If you have had experience with them what do you think of them? Do they leak? I have had several sets of the smaller hanger 9 floats for the 1/5 scale Cub and they are covered with film...They dont stand up well...IGlassed mine and that helped a lot...I can build a set out of foam but its a lot of work..I just thought if these were decient floats it might be worth picking a set up...
In my opinion their floats are overpriced and not made very well. I've seen several sets on 25% Cubs in the last two years and they have had nothing but trouble . They split and leak, the tops pull apart, and one set lost both bottoms after a bumpy landing and they peeled back like someone took a can opener to them. I looked inside of those and there's hardly anything inside for strength. These aren't getting slammed around either. Just an occasional bumpy landing. I've had kit and scratch built floats hold up for years with no issues after some rough landings.
I took a 60 size set that were damaged in a bumpy landing , repaired and glassed them and are decent floats now. To spend all of that money on them only to have to rework them to make them strong you would be better off to build a set .or look around for a used set.