ORIGINAL: Sundance2018
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.
If it is really hot glue in the nexstar, then it is only in the nexstar. My first plane was the Hobbico avistar and it was built using the same glue and quality of any ARF.
Austin