Well all of my kit is finaly here and so is the contest balsa I ordered to replace the stock sheeting in order to save weight.

Needless to say I was very curious to see if this stunt would save around 10 oz as expected or not, so I found my sweet little digital scale (acurate to +/- 1 gram=0,035oz) and went to action...

The weight of all stock balsa sheets: 598gram=21,09oz
Weight of the contest balsa to replace the stock: 311gram=10,97oz
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Weight reduced by replacing the sheeting for a better grade is 10,12oz or 0,63 lbs if you like. Same as slashing the weight of the sheeting by 50%.
Now some scrap and cutting some of the material off is expected while building the kit, so a total of approx 0,5 lbs will be saved on this model by this stunt alone.



Looking at the manual it states that there is 4 fuze sides, where 2 makes one fuz side, and the manual instruct us to join 2 ply together to get one full length fuz side. Digging into my kit I found 2 full lenght fuz sides instead of the 4... This is good as I don't have to glue em together to get one piece. Obviously Lanier have made a change to the better in their kit but not updated their manual for it. Also, I have checked out the material of the fuz sides and found it so so. Meaning it is def not good nor is it poor... I said before that I was planing to change these fuze sides but are now feeling a bit undecisive as if it is really worth the effort to replace these to save perhaps 2 oz?

All I need now is my Tower Hobby order to arrive and I will actually start to build this kit.