ORIGINAL: Lotus72D
ORIGINAL: capthis
I bought mine today from the local hobby shop and got started by weighing everything in the box.
Everything is in ozs.
Fuse 11.89
Fin/Rudd 2.15
Stab/Ele 3.08
Canopy 7.79
W Tube 3.23
Cowl 4.27
Gear 6.54
Motor Mount 2.75
Hardware 2.97
Misc ply .50
Wheels/tailwheel 3.13
Spinner 1.67
Wheel pants 3.57
Total 53.54 ozs. (3.35lbs)
Now I don't plan on using the wheel pants or the spinner so minus them it's 48.3 ozs (3.02lbs)
The first thing I did was lighten the canopy. That brought the weight down from 7.79oz to 4.66ozs. A savings of 3.13 ozs. Well worth the effort.
So my kit componenets weigh 2lbs 13.28ozs. Pretty decent I would say for an arf.
The pics of the canopy mods below.
Will be using a Saito 1.25.
My fuselage & canopy weigh 2 lbs 2 oz!! Must be made out of oak as your fuse & canopy seem to be about 20oz vs 34 oz for mine.[>:] Even though the rest of my component weights are close to yours, I am not happy about the almost extra 1 lb fuselage I have.
Ok I went out and weighed the fuse again. It weighed the same. Then I noticed that the firewall when standing the fuse on end was hitting where the lid to my scales hinge, and that was supporting some of the weight.
The fuse is not as light as I had originally posted. The rest of the weights should be accurate however as they wouldn't have encountered the problem.
I thought the fuse was too light. The fuse weighs 25ozs.
So add the 25ozs with the lighten canopy of 4.66 ozs, and the fuse assembly weighs just under 30ozs. very comparable to your weights.
This is why I never used to weigh anything. It just gets too complicated.