Is there anything in the manual indicating what engine the Tiger 2 was designed to run with? What engine are you installing? While most two-stroke engines are designed with the throttle on the right, many four strokes have it on the left. Often a simple solution is to swap the location of the throttle and rudder servos. Some four strokes will also allow you to flip the orientation of the carburator so the linkage is moved to the opposite side. Every engine and every plane is a little bit different so this is one area where you have to do some amateur engineering to get everything working properly so it isn't unique to your Tiger.
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Has anyone had problems with the Tiger 2 ARF? After researching second planes, I bought a Tiger 2 and am not very happy. Somebody at the factory must have read the blueprints wrong because:
1) the throttle pushrod goes through the wrong side of the firewall,
2) the steering arm pushrod is aligned to connect with the engine servo,
I'll chalk the other problems up to my inexperience:
1) poorly fitting main landing gear,
2) eyelets on the landing gear that don't fit the landing gear (why not just supply 2 wheel collars for each wheel?),
3) what is with the wing bolt plate? If the wing has dihedral, why provide a flat plate?
I've rigged the minor problems, but just not happy with my solutions to the first two issues. My current solution is to epoxy a hardwood brace in front of the servos, drill holes and pass and epoxy the pushrod guides (throttle and steering) to it. My fear is that both pushrods cross from one side of the fuselage to the other in a short space and will bind.
Anybody have these problems or have any suggestions?
I very disappointed. This is an ARF intended as a good second plane (I would presume for pilots with relatively little building experience). It should not have to be re-engineered. When I'm done, it better fly well!