No. I normally do that, but there is not a large amount of area for the glue to stick to in the C50, so I covered afterwards. You also have to beware that if you cover the tail as a whole, then cut out the centre section, you will weaken the wood as you will be cutting into it.

Luke, dont send it to me like you did with the extra, it didnt work. Use winzip, its easyer. Just left click---->new---->winzip---->right click
then name it freestyle. the drag the WHOLE FOLDER into the zip icon, if youve got the newest version (9) there is a box to drag down saying compression rate, click: maximum (slowest) then click zip file.

DONE! Thanks anayway for sending them over
Ian

Cheers Archie
Can you believe it was before Christmas that I posted the pics of my covered plane! haven't touched it since apart from more fuel proofer on it. Will get some pics of the IH iso mount and other hardware to post soon as its fitted. Got to borrow a better digi camera for that though cos with my old one you cant get any decent close up shots.


Why have I just become a junior member? Because I dont subscribe or sumething?

Sent the yak to you edible- its pretty close to my capiche in general 3d.


Jimbo,
I dont think the mods would quite go so far as to describe edible a "usless thing" however tempting it may be, so it must be the settings in your account.

You can change the words in your account options!

Thanks for all info everyone. I know everything I need to know now.

One last thing. For tail feathers and firewall will medium/thick cyano suffice?

That did it Luke thanks

Yes. My firewall glued on with med CA both times[:@].

Only epoxy was to retain the wing mounting T nuts as per the instructions.

"as per the instructions"

now, thats what I like to hear !

wot do beople use to cut grp cowls?
i used a dremel tool with a cone shaped fing on it. The gel coating cracked and came off in some places arounsd the edges, is this normal?
No problem now tho, filled it up with quick dry polyester resin.

I cut using a dremel and cutting disk, then use the sanding attachement to smooth things off.

maybe i just got a dodgy cowl...
part from that looks good.

ASM
If bits cracked off I can only assume you were being a bit heavy handed / rushing !?

I use a dremel with a small drill bit to run a load of holes along the line to cut, then use the drill to connect the dots, then a sanding end to smoothen it up and Ive never had any trouble...

Not likely to be the quality of the cowl in question I would say..

We just had some great feedback in from Ireland on the C50 ! Took a Madness head on apparently and matched performance !? Interesting !

Arch I take it thats a Capiche with the fun fly wing

NO - dont think so - I am fairly sure its the aero... hence my comments - "interesting !"

[]Fate has it that I shouldn't finish my C50.[]

Having finished the plane as far as possible before christmas,then waiting for IH to get the YS shipment in, now the engine is being delivered by the Royal mail who tomorrow will be on their 5th working day of a 2 day delivery! Frustrating or what. I know its been sent cos I have a tracking number and one part of the delivery turned up on saturday morning.Just feeling a bit despondent at the moment. Keep my fingers crossed for tomorrows delivery

Jim

hi jimbo where abouts do you fly in hastings? i need some where nice to fly my capiche . not to keen on flying on the pebshum football fields. thinking fo the rye warbirds can you help. thanks

Jimbo, if you get the engine on saturday, 1) complain lots to the royal mail and 2) install it reall quick and fly it!

Im going to try get a capiche 50 at Sandow in May can u tell me how much ill have to spend not including the engine ie with control likages etc is there a deal with every thing to make things easier.
Cant wait to get one right now all i got is a spad3d cant wait to get my hands on a proper 3d especially one as good as the capiche. Also how long will it take to build cover etc
thanks Karim

phillybaby took less than a week to build and cover his ready for flying.!

Jimbo, it may be in the local sorting office waiting for you to collect it.

I once ordered from Carboncopy, after a month, it hadn't arrived, so spoke to them. They said it had just been returned to them undelivered. Turned out that no one was in when they tried to deliver, and they couldn't be bothered to leave a card to collect it.

Also had engines be returned to the US because no card had come through the door![:@]

i also had to wait about a month from carbon copy, took aages
Karim, mine w/ everything cost abot £350 but im shure u could do it for £250 ie. use cheaper servos, engne etc. Im using futaba s3010s and saito 72. well worth the money though

Whats the cheapest servos i can put in without comprimising saftey of performance. Im thinking of putting an ASP .52 two stroke is this powerful enought to everything!or should i go for a 60

4 stroke, you really need 70 size or bigger. 52 will not do the job. If going this cheap route, get the 61, more power for same weight and only a bit more money. Think an Irving 53 would be a better choice in this price range.

As for servos, running 3003 should be fine, but may want to do 6v to get a bit more power out of them.

Jimbos engine and my Graphics, this is 3 weeks running now[:@]
Capiches first refuse to be built then commit suicide ASAP lol

was it under a week to build? thought it was ten days or something... anyway it's on my review, it then just took another 2 months flying before it had graphics on it, then 5 days to kill.

Its a stupid question but how do you pronounce Capiche.