RE: Balsa USA Stingray & Ryobi Pic's
Jim, sure I'll post some pics. right now I've only got a couple of formers glued together, I started on it Monday. This plane is going to be a further experament of mine. I'm only building with Titebond wood glue and very little CA or epoxy. Then I plan to cover it with dress lining bought from wal-mart using sig's Stik-It to bond the fabric to the airframe and then paint with thined latex house paint. I'm going to do a WW1 Folker look'a'like. I plan to use the bottom half of a 1gal bleach bottle as the cowl. should look great. I bought the plane for $60 and should take less than $5 in glue to build it and bout $12 to cover, the hard part is stealing by wifes bleach bottle if shes not done with it by the time I need it. You got'a know by now I'm a cheap a@@, lol.
As far as the engine go's, I'm thinking I will use the homelite 30cc I just got off ebay(brand new-$26, CHA-CHING!). I was thinking bout the ryobi but I du'no yet. I wish we had talked a bit more before you started to build your stingray. I plan to use my ryobi in my 1/4 scale cub in the future and have found a neat way to mount it. If you remember the mount you got from Pete has that hole in it the carb mounts through, just put a hole in the firewall that size, drill four hole for the case bolts and flush mount the motor to the firewall with tha carb inside the tank compartment. Nice, clean, may not need to move the firewall but mostly....yep, CHEAP!..lol. I do have two of Pete's mounts and there great as are his mufflers but I just pick and choose where to spend the money on some planes.