Picked up a sorta NIB ARF through a friend. It's one of the older versions. The cowl paint and windscreen don't match the chinakote on the plane. But the price was decent and I just happen to have a new DLE20 sitting here on the shelf........ It's been tossed around a little. Thje parts are in good shape, but missing a few minor pieces of hardware. I don't normally use much of the metric hardware that comes with an ARF, so it's not a big deal.

Working on the aileron servos now. Pics coming tonight.

Installed aileron servos in wings. JR911 mid-size servo. It's a coreless - ball bearing - nylon gear - servo with about 45oz torque at 4.8v. I'm using a 6v battery, so I'm guessing they'll be around 50-53oz torque.

This ARF has been lying in some guys garage for 3 or 4 years. It's missing the elevator pushrods and a few other bags of hardware. Ended up peeling the covering off the bottom of the plane and cutting all the pushrod tubes out. I hate wire pushrods anyway, but only having 1 in the bag when I need 4 ............ I'm not messing with it. Cut 'em out and put some other pushrods in there. I've got one in place at time of pics. I got one more pushrod here and will have to run off to the LHS and buy 2 more tomorrow.

I wish it didn't look like a snake running through the fuse, but thats where the holes laid out and there's not much room to drill new holes unless I patch the old ones first. Thats what semi-flexible pushrods are for, right?

I'm going to use cheap Hitec 311 servos on each elevator half. They're new and will do the job.

6hrs later.........

Glued the tail on. Used a little tape to hold it square. It kept wanting to twist out about 1/4" Measured from the outside of the wing where the tip of the aileron lands. There's a sharp corner there. 40 and 1/8" from that tip to the trailing edge corner of the stab.

I got one side hinged and finished the linkage. I'll work on the other elevator half and the rudder tomorrow.

Hello Rcpilot,
I've been considering one of these and was wondering what your opinion of the over constuction was. Also what size servos does this Cub require on the control surfaces?
Thanks for your input. Looking forward to the flight report.

Dave

It's typical china ARF construction. China lite ply and laser cut parts. I have an older version, so the paint on my cowl and wind screen don't match the china cote covering.

The airframe seams reasonably well built. The landing gear is kinda cool, but you'll want to replace the stock rubber bands with something much more substantial. Right now I have (6) #64 rubber bands on each leg and it seams to be holding up okay. But I have not attached the wing and fully assembled the plane yet. Once the thing is completely assembled I'll have to see how it holds up. Might be okay with just 6 rubber bands - might need 8 on each side.

The cowl doesn't have a lot of inlet opening to cool your engine. I'm using a DLE20 gasoline engine. I want it cool. It's brand new. I decided to build a baffle inside the cowl to direct as much air over the cooling fins as possible. I'm going to install the plastic dummy cylinders and cut a hole in the forward facing side of each cylinder set. That would effectively TRIPLE the square inches of inlet opening. I'm also going to build a small lip on the bottom of my cowl - near the outlet opening. That will help suck the air through the cowl.

I'm planning to buy the DuBro 1/3 scale Cub wheels from Tower. At 5.6" diameter, they would be almost the perfect size bush tires for this Cub.

The stock tail wheel sucks. It REALLY sucks. I replaced it with a great planes scale tailwheel. I cut a piece of 1/4" hard aircraft plywood to fit the bottom of the fuse - last 4 or 5 inches of the tail on the bottom of the fuse. I drilled the holes and mounted blind nuts for the GP scale tail wheel. Mounted the bracket and then cut some covering off the bottom of the plane. Glued it on with a paste of 15min epoxy and micro balloons.

I got it for $100, but it was missing some hardware. I can live with it for $100.

Would rather have had the World Models 1/4 scale Cub. Thats what this was SUPPOSED to be when a friend went and picked it up. But it wasn't a World Models Cub and it ain't 1/4 scale. I almost didn't buy it. But it was still a decent deal for $100 and I just happen to have a shiny new DLE20 sitting here......

I'd say for a hundred bucks you did OK. Thanx for your input.

Dave