At the moment, just pics, will annotate later
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GMinty fox from SWM, 14.99 with 2 servos, £20 inc postage, but they only spent £2 on the stamp???
(http://s1.postimage.org/eo3pdo3o/image003.png) (http://postimage.org/image/eo3pdo3o/)
So, includes the green Wing, Elevator and Canopy
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Built
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Weighs in at 51G, more that Gordons orange one?
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Mark COG on wing
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Remove Canopy with something blunt
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Canopy off
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There's a 9G bearing
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Remove it, I levered it out with a flat head screw driver
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9G...
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Brng it down to 42G
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Now Cut out the tab that holds on the canopy, I used a Scalpel and sandpaper, but you can melt it out with a soldering iron.
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The motor :) this produces 250G~300G of thrust with a 4X5 Prop on a 2 cell batt, shoud go quite quickly.
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Weighs in at 16G, 1G more than they say, shouldn't be an issue though...
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Annoyingly, it is a front mounted motor so I originally designed a piece of ABS plastic to mount it on, however it comes with this Triangle Mount, which is stronger than my mount :)
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That adds 1G
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I was thinking I could mount it with some 2' Carbon Tubes with screws in them...
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... like that, they are stuck in with Araldite :)
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My amazing spacer method, it actually worked quite well
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Adding the third leg
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Fitted with an easystar prop
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It has one of those Prop saver rubber band thingys
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Bck to the plane, I had marked out areas to cut for the servo and ESC... I cut around the edge with a Scalpel, then puled out small pieces of foam with a pair of wire snipper's. That is the Aileron Servo
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I then drilled out the holes for the Motor, they don't look straight but they are...
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I coated the inside of the hole with araldite and stuck it in, I tried to make it as parallel to the plane as possible...
To be cont'd
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Looks good so far bud, another Fox, these are really popular this month :)
Quote from: Coyote on July 24, 2011, 10:26:56 AM
Looks good so far bud, another Fox, these are really popular this month :)
Yeah lol, I needed a plane that is small enough to take with me to croatia, I am building it to flat pack :)
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