Yeah, as I said, I was quite miffed. Needless to say hot glue sure doesn't get along well with nitro fuel either! I had the unforunate discovery when rebuilding my NexStar that the joints easily peeled apart. I mean they used hot glue through-out including on the formers and other places that one would expect something more robust. My fuselage was pretty much toast and I didn't even bother trying to reconstruct their wood structure - everything was built extremely cheaply. Nevertheless, for a newbie to the hobbie a person gets what they pay for I guess.