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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.
Please take a few minutes and 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 however; these are easily removed with a little bit of heat. Use a
100% cotton tee-shirt and your heat gun and heat the covering while gently rubbing
the covering onto the wood with the t-shirt. 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.
Take a few minutes and apply CA to high stress areas such as servo mounting trays,
landing gear mounts, anti-rotation pins, and motor box joints.
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 a high quality epoxy for installing the composite control horns and hinges. We
highly recommend the new Mercury Adhesives 30 minute Epoxy as well as Pacer
Hinge Glue. We very pleased with the results and ease of application and cleanup of
these products.
6.
When applying decals, first clean the area where the decal will be applied with
alcohol. Mist the area lightly with Windex or Rapid Tack before applying the decal
which will allow you to properly position it, and then use a rubber squeegee to push
all of the liquid from under the decal. This will result in very few air pockets
trapped under the decal.
7.
Take the time to properly balance and trim your aircraft and set up rates and
exponential values. Your flying experience will be greatly enhanced once your plane
is properly dialed in.
