Addiction build
I got to spend a few hours on the build before I went away for the weekend. Got up to mounting the horizontal and vertical stab. Left off at putting the tailwheel in.
Lessons learned:
1) Take notice of the manual when it says be delicate with mounting the servo aileron. The mount is strong enough for the purpose but when the incorrect force is applied (ie me with a screwdriver) it can break. I cracked one end of the mount. It was only a small crack so a bit of CA and she's good as new. I'll have to keep an eye on it though.
2) Don't cross thread your bolts! I messed up one of the landing gear pre-installed blind nuts when I went a bit cross threaded. To make it worse, I'd pushed the nut out of the mount and couldn't get the bolt back out. Ended up cutting the bolt in half, retrieving the blind nut, finding a new bolt that fits, run it through the nut to establish the thread properly again and back on the landing gear goes.
3) No need to use more string on the aileron pushrod than supplied otherwise the heatshrink won't fit over it.
Besides those minor hiccups, everything else has gone quite smoothly.
