Sorry for the delay in responding, I just now got my e-mail telling me there was activity on this thread!

I have not been able to fly my Zero yet, lousy weather here in Kansas City.

I looked at my weights and I added about 9 oz of lead to the nose on the motor mount box. I also used that as an opportunity to laterally balance the model and ended up putting most of the lead on one side of the motor mount "box" vs. in the center.

The plane weighs about 7 1/2 lbs with the lead in the nose.

Regarding the plastic clevis.......I am always afraid of plastic clevis, I always use the Sulivan metal clevis with the retaining clip. In this case, I did go ahead with the plastic clevis, but now that I have heard the story of the failure, I think I will go with Sulivan. The only reason I did not to begin with was because they are 2mm metric and all I had was 2-56 or 4-40 in my parts supply. I will make a trip to the LHS and get some metric Sullivan 2mm before I fly it the first time.

Only other change I made was replace the fuel tank with a Sullivan tank. I have has ARF tanks leak before an it really just ruins the model. That was really the only item in the box that I thought was cheesy (except maybe now the clevis).

Bull-RCU - I really don't think the Zero would make a good second plane. I would recommend a Ultra Stick, 4 Star 40, Something Extra or the like. The taper wing and fully symetrical airfoil would be a little much for a second plane IMHO.

BTW.....on another forum, I read that it has a tendency to drop a wing tip on final if you do not keep your speed up.