Those of you who have placed orders from Niagara, how many years did it take to get your floats? They don't respond to emails but were nice enough to accept my immediate payment. I have placed many an orders from Canada and never had to wait more than 10 days. Its been almost a month now.

It seems like it did take around a month or maybe a bit more. I was not impressed at all with their (his) customer service. Enough said on that. The floats are pretty good, I guess, IF you have some scratch building ability and artistic talent. I had no experience with completely balsa sheeting such a complex shape, and I am no sculptor! You need to do some carving of raw blocks. Mine came out pretty bad. I used them once and replaced them with some Modelfly floats. I found that the instructions mentioned using some glue that would disolve the foam. I pointed that out to the guy up there and he quickly changed the instructions. When I pointed that out, he said it was just a coincidence, and was going to update the instructions anyway. He basically told me tough-****, I bought them, ruined them by not being experienced, and I was on my own. He did, however, give me some ideas of how to fix my ruined floats. I hope you get your box of raw materials soon. Don't get contact cement anywhere near the foam, as the instructions used to tell you to do. It melts FAST! If you are a skilled builder, you'll be fine. If they arrive![X(] Have fun!

I have used several sets of Niagara floats and have found them to be excellent. I use the same contact cement that I use on foam wings. If you have ever done foam wings, you know that a solvent based contact based cement will melt foam and you have to use 3M #77 or a similar water based cement. Sig has some as do several others.

They are easy to do. You make up the covering like for a wing, coat both sheet & foam with contact and let dry, then roll the foam on to the sheeting.

You do have to carve a small nose block as well as join sheeting, but you have to do this for all foam floats. If you can't do that, you'd better stick with the plastic ones.

I think mine took 3 weeks for delivery to Florida.

I have no problem with building experience. For the last 10 yrs or so, I always bought kits and enjoyed building. Its of late that I took to ARFs as time on my hands is short. I was just wondering why its taking so long. Well, will just have to wait.

Thanx for the replies

Be careful with the 3M 77 as it will eat up the foam. They changed the formula in the last few years and it now contains acetone. I've heard that if you spray a light coat on the foam it won't eat it up. 3M also has a spray glue made for foam labeled 3M 78 that works great, but is hard to find. In the last 2 years I've made around 100 pairs of floats using the 78. I join foam to foam with it and sheet the balsa with it.......Seaplane