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2am hinging video, for anyone interested, or bored. haha

Again, I flew a Mike Domo's V2 and loved it... so I got this one. I would have tried the stock hinges (adding one to each end of each surface) but when I saw Jeff Leshinsky's similar looking china round hinges all fail totally in less than 30 flights on his other brand ARF I got paranoid. haha I am ...

I put the axles, tires, and spats on today. I went ahead and gave the stock axles a try. But, not the stock axle collars. Two of the collars were missing and the other two were pretty poorly tapped and threaded. I couldn't get them to work. So, I used the stock axles with DUBRO collars. The stock ti...

Finally on the gear!

Putting on the landing gear was a bit tricky. I put the bolts in from the top and to keep the washers on and the bolts on the ball driver I lathered them up with RTV. Then I put the fuse on its side and threadlocked on the lock nuts.

I was looking at the tiller arm setup and thinking this would only work if you drill a hole big enough for the balljoint to be glued into the bottom of the rudder. I checked the manual for the first time and that is what it says to do. haha So I did.

Okay, I got out to the garage for a couple of more hours... I finished all the hinging (all I had left was the rudder) and it's really nice. :) I decided it was time to put it on the gear... so I put together the stock tailwheel. If you want to make a flat spot for the set screw to tighten on you ha...

I'm going to add a slot closer to the servo... like I did here on my Pilot RC 122" Extra.

After all these years the truss control horn slots are still not cut far enough apart to use conicals. They only allow for a balljoint between them. Hard to believe.

First plane I've seen with extension tubes in the wings... nice.