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Old 09-21-2008 | 09:58 PM
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From: proserpineQueensland, AUSTRALIA
Default RE: AVOID THESE ARF's AT ALL COST!!!!!!!!!!!!

fair enough, but to what I am seeing these at the clubs and people I help with their kits I am mot impressed to say the least. While most kits look pretty in the box, its when you go the assemble them that you find a lot of nasty's. For instance, the last seagull kit I assisted in I junked all the control rods and linkages. It was a 60 size kit and the pushrods supplied were smaller than 2-56, and unsupported with the usuall flimsy linkages and horns. The covering wouldnt tighten up again with either iron or heatgun, and we put near a bottle of ca into the everywhere we could reach after finding as loose former just behind the wing mount area. the supplied engine mounts weren't even square, the motor wobbled quite nicely when sat on them.

Yes there are some good kits out there, but when you live in the country 500+ miles from a decent hobby shop, and try to buy online or over the phone its a lottery as to what you get at best, and unfortunately Australia is flooded with cheap chinese %^&&*. My advice to anyone looking for a good ARF is to buy a name brand like hangar9, WM, EF etc. Unfortunately here they are very expensive and you usually have to order them in and that takes up to 3 months+ I cancelled my order for an Extreme Flight Yak after 4 months waiting, and the price they wanted was $1695 while it was selling in the US for about $600. I guess you can see why I scratch build these days