Thanks for the advice Darrinc.
I do hope the plane turns out to be a great flyer, especially since I have put so much time into it. It has been a frustrating build because I was not expecting to have to rebuild or do the extra work at this time on this plane.

I crashed a plane earilier this year and had nothing to fly. I do have a 4*60 kit on the table but it is not finished yet so I bought a GP big stick 40 ARF as a quicky to have something to fly until I got the 4* finished. Well I got bored with the stick (built in a few hours) and have not had the time to put into the 4* to finish it, I still need to buy covering and do a lot of final sanding. I have been so busy with work and such recently that I have not had the time to pay attention to the details of the kit.

I decided to buy another ARF that I could get into the air quickly but wanted something a lot more capable so I could get into 3D. I thought this Razor ARF would go together quickly and be in the air in no time. This has not been the case and has taken much longer than I planned, that is where the frustration has come from.

I dont know, maybe I should not have bought a plane that was just out for this occasion, but then I also think that my ARF just happend to be one of the ones that did not get the attention that most of the Lanier ARFS get.
I have read a lot of threads about ARFS and it seems like a mixed bag, some ARFS are great and some are not. Some seem to have to do a lot of work and on some of these planes and I guess that is to be expected in some cases.

I do intend to keep this thread updated and will post my views when I fly this plane, if it turns out to be an excellent flyer I will certainly be happy and let everyone know about it. It will make all the hard work worth it for sure.

You mention the Hitec 605 servos, I am sending my 605's back, they do not center correctly on the rudder or the elevators. I have read numerous threads about this problem with the 605's. In addition I have read about a lot of failures as pertaining to these servos going to full delfection in flight. I will say also that I have seen some threads with good experiences with these servos, but why take the chance?
I have not had time to decide on what to replace them with yet but will probably get Futaba servos. Maybe the Metal gear 3305's or the 3010's. I like the 3305 over the 3010 because the 3305 has the metal gear but has a slower speed.
Not sure at this point.


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