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We start assembly in a sequence as:
1. Installing door hinges, doors and all air cylinders, for a minimal fee, the factory will
install them all for you, which I believe is well worth every cent.
2. Pneumatic lines for doors, retracts, brakes and air brakes.
3. Fuel tanks, replacing internal lines and installing external lines with a vent exiting the
fuselage, (Optional) Smoke tank with fuel lines and vent to exit fuselage.
4. Gluing the flap hinges, aileron hinges and rudder hinges also all control horns.
5. Elevator balancing, servos, extensions and linkages
6. Wing and rudder servo covers, servos, extensions and then linkages to each horn
7. Installing Ordnance on wings.
8. Front wheel servo with pull-pull linkages or another Non pull-pull assembly (Optional)
9. Cockpit with pilots (Optional)
10. Preparing the Equipment tray, Header tank, ECU, turbine valves, Fuel pump with shutoff
valve, Air valves, Servos for the air valves, receiver, voltage regulators with switches,
(Optional) Smoke pump with shutoff valve. (Optional) Air failsafe, and or (Optional)
Steering Gyro.
11. Installing equipment tray and making room for cockpit
12. Connecting the forward to the aft fuselage
13. Carbon fiber bypass, thrust pipe & engine
14. CG (Center of Gravity), Batteries and Air tanks
15. Transmitter setup & Maiden Flight
Before we start, Some info about Adhesives:
The correct adhesive to use for most procedures is either white Hysol 9462 made by Locktite or
white Aeropoxy made by BVM and for a little faster setting time there is a clear Vpoxy made by
BVM. These are very strong epoxies which are thixotropic. "Thixotropic" means it does not run,
Hence it stays where you put it. It is infinitely superior to regular epoxy, even slow-setting
epoxy, for our purposes, because of this characteristic. Regular epoxy will run down hill with
gravity as it dries, usually taking it away from where it is supposed to be. We will be using this
process with regular epoxy only once to balance the elevators. A good example is in the
hinges...using regular epoxy, a good portion of the glue will migrate down away from the hinge
into the inside of the wing as it dries, and you won't even know it is happening. Hysol or BVM’s
poxy stays where you put it. The downside is it takes overnight to dry properly, but we have tried
to arrange things to keep you busy while waiting for the glue to dry. We also highly recommend
that you only use a proper dispensing gun, and only the long-type mixing nozzles.
We have found over extended use that the short nozzles do not mix this glue enough, and only a
thin nozzle and gun will let you fill the hinge and control horn holes properly with glue, you can
not do it by mixing it on a flat surface and then trying to get the glue in the proper place by a
brush or stick. You can buy a complete kit with a gun, nozzles, and two cartridges of
glue from your dealer for approximately $60 to $80. Consider it a great investment, the glue is
the best you will use. One cartridge is plenty to assemble your F18-f.
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