ORIGINAL: SeamusG
Great deal!
Are you a member of a local club? If so I would take the plane to one of the ''old sage'' club members and have 'em do a stem to stern inspection. I do this with every plane that I build before MY maiden just because I want fresh eyes looking for things that I might have missed (repeatedly
).
Please, please, please be so careful on the start up stand. One of our members was firing up his red 4Star60 with a Golden Knight Saito with an APC prop. It was spinning at full throttle - for some reason only God knows he stuck his hand, fingers first, into the prop.
Not trying to unsettle you by any means - just tossin' out a heads up - don't let your mind wander when ya go flying.
Let us know how you like the 4Star!!! Btw, I'm (re)maidening my 4Star60 kit. Just replaced the original Saito 91 with a Super Tigre G90. Why? Because. No other reason. Got bored after a hard landing that knocked the landing gear block out - I don't know WHY I used metal hardware to hold the gear on rather than 1/4-20 nylon bolts. I let my mind wander during the build.
One friend I fly with just had a brain fart and stuck his hand in the prop of his G-62, it was vary ugly!! It can happen to anyone at any time if you quit thinking for a second. If you give it some thought, what would have happened if you would have had nylon dolts in there and had a hard landing. The LG block is an easy fix. Don't second guess yourself, I use metal bolts all the time with reinforced LG blocks.