It has been a little while since I have been able to do anything with my plane as I have had family in town..
I received alot of my parts and tools last week and was pretty excited to get the plane balanced. I understand I can do it without a CG machine but I prefer to do it the CG machine until I know what I am doing. Anyways I receive all of my stuff from Tower and you can imagine my disappointment when I realize that the CG machine was defective. I have contacted tower and they seem to have intentions to replace it and to even reimburse my shipping costs. So I will have to wait a little while longer to be able to do that.

I also tried to start the engine this past weekend without much luck. I am very disappointed in the plastic spinner, the rubber grommet or whatever you call it in the electric starter was cutting into my plastic spinner. Is this common or am I doing something wrong? Would you guys strongly recommend me getting an aluminum spinner. I am thinking of doing it but was wondering if the issues I am having with my plastic spinner are something I don't need to worry about. I was able to get my engine to start but it would not stay running, but alas I was not armed with my trusty OS engine guide. Which I will be the next time I try to start it. I did however burn up the glow plug that came in the engine in just a couple of tries to start the engine. I am glad I bought a few glow plugs and think I will get at least a few more.

Well, I am sure there will be more to come Caleb