ARF's versus KIT's the saga continues
gpmikemorse, I noticed you mentioned "Tower Hobbies", in my experience TH or known to be on the low end of the industry, their products are not of the same quality as most of the popular name brands products.
Even if it were say a known brand lets say for example a World Models ARF trainer in most cases the manufacture would replace a structure defect, I would even think that TH would pick up the tab here as well. If you built the kit yourself then you would already know what kind of structure you have but say if a weak joint cased the kit to tumble to the ground who would pick up the cost here?
Randy