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Old 04-05-2009 | 08:19 AM
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Default RE: CMP giant scale Zero build

The spinners from yellow aircraft are about 80 USD. They are neither cut to accommodate the prop nor are they drilled and tapped (for mounting the cone to the backplate).

There are advantages and disadvantages to the Yellow spinner. It's good because it's scale and also because it's heavy (nose weight needed on Zeros). The major disadvantages are that you need to do all the cutting and drilling and tapping, and because it's heavy, it must be very carefully balanced or you'll do damage to the motor, plane, or both.

I tried to use two (one came with my Yellow Zero and I bought a replacement from Yellow), but I could never get either of them accurately balanced. They now sit on my shelf and I just ordered one from Gene Barton. His are scale in both size and profile (for the Bert Baker/Yellow Aircraft Zero) and he can also accurately cut for a prop and mount the cone to the backplate (extra 25 dollars). I think that I paid about $55 for the spinner and another $25 the extra work when I ordered from Gene. So for the same price of the Yellow you can have one cut and mounted (and also bead-blasted so that it's ready to accepted paint) when you order from Gene Barton. Very nice guy, too.

He is responsive to email, so I would go to his website (www.genebarton.com) and send him a note to get the cost and delivery estimate (not sure if he keeps them all in stock).

Good luck.

Noah