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thanks for the italian lesson ( feel sorta silly)

all this info sure has been a help.

I had already read about the landing gear & have made an aluminum plate but I put it on top (away from fuselage) of the gear.

These messages are the reason I'm installing a Dubro tank
I totally agree about the OEM tank -sure wouldn't want a plane full of fuel. :-)

I like your battery placement. is that the same location I read where one person put his rudder servo to set up a pull-pull rudder. I wondered if he cut through the ultracote on the bottom.
I assume from this that with the OS 46FX your Aresti was tail heavy -do you think you could've gotten by with elevator servos in the tail. If I could do that - I'd cut out the servo tray & put a rudder servo with pull-pull in the center-between where the elevator & rudder servo cut outs are on the stock tray. -what do you think ?

As far as the packaging tape - go to your local pharmacy and ask the R.PH.(pharmacist) to sell you a roll of his "SCOTCH" RX tape. It should be 2 inches wide and don't fool with it if it's not Scotch -there are other cheaper brands. I use it for everything. I've seen prescription bottles several years old & the label looked new - They should all make their tape this good.
I have a 20year old Kadet that was my dad's. I wanted to fly it but the wings felt mushy-I cut the monokote open to look at the spars & just placed tape over the panels to tape the monokote back together. Flew it 3 times then hung it back up. :-)
One of these days I 'm gonna recover the whole plane.

When I get me Aresti flying - I'll sure remember the nose-over tendency

Thanks again for all the valuable help. I'll keep reading this forum
Eddie