yup. Stuff I’ll need eventually anyway. Been working on some furniture projects lately. Went to Florida jets yesterday. I’m reinvigorated. Have to finish the furniture stuff but I’ll be starting up shortly.
My new radios and batteries and receivers have arrived. I got a turnigy 9xr pro mode 1 for 22 bucks. Swapped it over to mode 2. And I decided to use orange receivers and the Telemetry module. Bought 2 9 channel receivers for future use. 18 bucks each. I’ve been messing around with the radio and I’m going to do some ergonomic mods. It’s a little big for my hands. Thumb sticks are too long too. Overall tho seems like a very nice radio for practically no money. I updated the firmware to the open source stuff. Going to take Mel a long time to learn how to use all these features. I doubt I ever I’ll use some of them. I’ll post all of this stuff here.
I saw some of the graupmer radios at the jet show. Really nice. They got one, can’t remember the model a 24 something. Awesome ergonomics, for me at least. Touch screen. Comes with a nice hard case a 8channel, and 2-6 channel receivers, and 5k mah battery. For 399. Maybe cheaper somewhere. I was thoroughly impressed.

KPRogress. I think i may have messed up my vacuum bag. I applied too much resin and although I’m put 3 layers of saturation material I still got some bleed thru to the vacuum bag in a couple area. This coring material soaks up a ton of resin then I think it gets compressed out. I think I’ll have to just layer a bunch more material in the future.

So vacuum bag doesn’t really stick to resin. Score 1for me. I had a couple spots where the breather material got a little stuck for some reason, but that will be ok. I think the bag is usable. I’ll vacum test it tomorrow before I lay up the bottom half. Just having a quick glance at the mold, when I pulled them out of the bag, I’m really excited. The wings pulled up a bit and it’s still warm so it’s a teeny bit flexible, I could see the surface and it looked pretty nice. I can’t wait to pee
the ply off and look at them tomorrow. So much more work than I could have anticipated but I’m feeling like I’m finally over the initial learning curve.

Problems lol. So I need to do a bit more research. I used way too much resin. Breather material maybe isn’t for absorbing resin? I had so much resin in this that it saturated the breather cloth and hardened into a thick layer. Couldn’t peel the stuff off. Peel ply was stuck because it had this thick layer hardened over it. So, I too the grinder and a flapper disk and ground a whole mess of excess resin off. Down until the red line in the peel ply started to show brightly. 6.2oz per upper half. And it’s stiff. I’m very happy. I damaged the one part trying to peel the peel ply up, so I did the repair. Added a small section to stiffen an area in each half and put them back in the bag so they bond well. The exterior surfaces of the parts came out really good. So...I am going to make the bottom tomorrow probably. I am going to use way way way less resin and see how I comes out. I think part of my problem was that I did 2 oz then this core material and I didn’t do another layer of glass so maybe the peel ply peels off glass better. I dunno. But I will do the extra glass layer on the bottom and see how it comes out.

I’m very impressed with vacuum bagging. Makes excellent repairs. Parts came out really good. Have to do a little more trimming.i added a bit of foam to the ailerons.