Hi all,
I am in the process of assembling a Lanier stinger 60 ARF. I was wondering what your thoughts are on the hardware that came with the plane. Anyone see or have any problems with the qualilty of the stock hardware? Do you think it should be replaced?

thanks,
djt294

If it comes with the usual 2-56 rods I would replace them with 4-40 rods.

The wheels gotta go. Heavy and junky. The tail wheel dosn't fit the hub. The guide wires vibrate loose. An easy fix is to not use a clevise on both ends, put a Z bend on one end and it can't turn. Also the small nuts and bolts that attach them to the tail feathers must be replaced with bolts with nylock nuts. Or go cable or carbon. Control horns are light but do the job. Say good by to the wheel pants. The light ply mounting block is too small, it should cover as much of the in side as possible to be strong. I replaced them with custom pants. The cowl cracks all over but some how stays together. You have to oversize the holes for the mounting screws and isolate them with servo gromets (fuel eats them) or make them up with pieces of fuel tube. The CG in the manual is not correct. It is 4" to 3/4" For the motor mount placement the horisontal line from the bottom up is 3" not 3 1/2" The control horn placement on the rudder is 7/8" up from the bottom not 1 7/8" A couple of areas of sheeting on the fuse came loose after time but no big deal. Good luck, Joe

I just put my stinger 60 together. Have not flown yet due to the CG problem. What type wheels do you suggest? As well as wheel pants too? How much weight did you have to add in the tail?

Chris

I installed the Dave brown lites on mine saved quite a few oz's

As far as added weight I got mine to balance without any weight by moving the battery around.

I'm sure the C G problem is different with your choice of engine. I set it up with a Saito 100 which is lighter than the OS 91. Personally I think this plane would be nose heavy with the 51 as well. I chose 4 3/8" as my C G. For the 100 FS I had to put the rudder servo in the tail on the bottom of the fuse. I used a five cell 17000 milli amp battery back in the fuse against the servo, the engine sits right up to the fire wall (it actually touches it) with any excess of the front of the engine mount cut off and got away with one ounce of weight on the tail. This is with a 14 x 8 Master Airscrew, A wooden prop may be lighter. If you look at the wheel pants the ply mount is small. The pants crack where the block ends. You could remove it and put in a longer one or add to each end and laminate over it. I chose to fab a custom pair from balsa (block) and ply sides. The cowl is holding up since I isolated it with rubber grometts where the screws go thru. Good luck, Your going to love this plane.