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Extreme Composite Edge 540T 50CC Dietrich Performance75CC Extra260
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Extreme Composite Edge 540T 2 x 2 m
Build Review by "Shaky" Svein Part 3
Lets get on with building and installation of the
servo tray and the fuel tank tray. These are an easy build
and are supplied precut with drawings how to assemble. I use some
sandpaper to roughen up where I will put on the glue and use 12 minute
epoxy to glue it in place.
Now it's time to glue together the gas tank tray, this comes precut
and with drawings as well so it's just to use the sandpaper and test
fit everything. Here I use 5 min epoxy cause it fits so good. The two
bottom plates I'll glue on when its dried, as shown on the picture
were this tray is beside of the servo tray.
Back to the servo tray. There is too little space in front of this
plane for any servos so I cut out space for the throttle and choke
servos in the servo tray. This shown in a picture and gluing
underneath more strength for the screws of the servos. you can se this
on the bottom view of both servo tray laying besides each other.
As you see on the gas tray, I now glued on the bottom two pieces
for strength and later to use when mounting the tray in the plane,
this I will come back to later on.
When this is dried I Pre-fit the servo tray in the plane. A
little sanding of some edges was required to get it all the way down
in place. I then measured down the same length in all 4 corners 12
centimeters (4 1/2 inch) and mark it of with a pen.
Then mix some more 12 minutes epoxy and glue it in place.
Here I may need some adjusting and its good to have a little more
fitting time before the glue dries. Here I use plenty of epoxy on top
of the space between the tray and plane body, just to make sure that
this will never come apart.
The next step now is to make a place for the batteries, this I will
have to make myself and place in front of the body of the plane. And
then put the wheels on. I'll bet It will look more like a plane
on each step further now. I'll be back soon with more pictures
and descriptions of this great build. Stay tuned to this
frequency.
Before I make a mounting place for
the batteries, I have to fit the main landing gear. I want to
use the inside mount for the the landing gear as an anchoring place for
the batteries. I'll come back to that in a short while.
First I fit the gear for the wheels in the
plane an measure out so they are centered shown on picture. I then drill
out holes for 4 screws straight through the gear and fuselage of the
plane. After this I remove the legs and drill a bit bigger holes in the
body of the plane, because of the blind nuts that are mounted inside the
plane as shown on a picture. I first press this one in the holes from
inside and then tighten up the screws from outside so that the threads on
the nuts can get a grip in the wood inside. When this is done its just to
install the landing gear and I use blue locktite on the machine screws so
the bolts cannot work loose due to vibration.
Now that the landing gear is
secured, I'll mount the wheels and wheel pants. There are pre
marked dots in the wheel pants so I'll just mark of and drill
holes in the gear and the wheel pants. The only thing is that I have to
file of some of the bottom and side of the gear so it fits the wheel
pants nicely. Then pre mount to see if it fits, I also have to sand some
of the inside of the wheel pants away as shown in a picture so that the
wheels don't rub on the wheel pants. I also use blue locktite here on
the retainers, I don't like the idea of wheels leaving the plane before
landing.
Let's take a minute now to mount the tail wheel. As you can see on the picture, I file down a bit of the area to fit the wheel base. This is to get flat place to mount the leg. This because the Edge has a small angel on the bottom. This is an "Ohio Superstar" type of tailwheel and it will work great on this plane. When this is done I place the wheel base in place and mark with a pen where to drill. I drill holes and then screw in the screws for the leg to make threads in the plane. I use quick drying glue and pore some in the threads to make them stronger let that dry, and then mount the wheel in place. Man, that went great! Lets move on and get to the next page.
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