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Tips for Success:
1. Before starting assembly, take a few minutes to read the entire
instruction manual to familiarize yourself with the assembly process.
2. Go over all the seams on the aircraft with a covering iron on a
medium heat setting. Also, due to climate changes, wrinkles may
develop in the covering. These are easily removed with a little bit of
heat. Use a 100% cotton tee-shirt or microfiber cloth and your heat gun
and heat the covering while gently rubbing the covering onto the wood
with the cloth. Be careful not to use too much heat as the covering may
shrink too much and begin to lift at the edges. Take your time, and a
beautiful, paint-like finish is attainable.
3. Apply CA to high stress areas such as servo mounting trays, landing
gear mounts, anti-rotation pins, wing and stab root ribs, wing mounting
tabs and motor box joints etc.
4. By the time your aircraft arrives at your door step, it will have been
handled by a lot of people. Occasionally there are small dings or
imperfections on some of the surfaces. An effective method to restore
these imperfections to original condition is to use a very fine tipped
hypodermic needle and inject a drop of water under the covering
material and into the ding in the wood. Apply heat to the area with a
sealing iron and the imperfection will disappear. Deeper marks may
require that this process be repeated a couple of times to achieve the
desired result, but you will be surprised at how well this technique
works.
5. Use high quality, fresh epoxy for installing the composite control
horns and hinges. We highly recommend Pacer Z-Poxy 30 minute
Epoxy. We are very pleased with the results and ease of application and
cleanup of these products.
6. Take the time to properly balance and trim your aircraft and set up
rates with exponential values. Your flying experience will be greatly
enhanced once your plane is properly dialed in.
7. Extreme Flight now has their own Vimeo channel. There are many
assembly videos providing extreme detail on certain aspects of the
assembly. https://vimeo.com/extremeflightrc
