Plan on adding some lead. I needed four oz under the OS52 four stroke. Don't be tempted to use one of the brass spinners, it add to much load on the crank.

I had to spend a couple hours with the heat gun getting the covering presentable. I found that if I used a strip of blue masking tape, I could lift the covering where it was stuck to a rib and that let things work out a lot better. Watch the covering, it doesn't change colors like Monokote so it is kind of hard to tell when you are about to blow a hole through it. I did manage to get it to look OK though.

I've had a marthon week, rebuilding crashes. I'm good now for two more before I get out the glue again. Speaking of balance, I forgot to check the balance on the 4* after splicing the fuselage back together. Got to do that before morning, just in case the weather is OK for flying.

Snow?? This time of the year?? We may get a bit of rain tomorrow, we really need it as we only got about 20% of normal this winter. We've been here going on eight years and we've only had one "normal" rain season, all the rest have been below and this last season was really bad.

Don