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Originally Posted by Mankster  You do realise you have the shafts for the planes the wrong way around dont you 
Looking good so far, measuring didn't work at all for me, just make small adjustments and see what happens. |
I realised just by accident to be honest. I was literally about to mix the resin to fix them into the lower hull and for some reason I looked up at the plan on the wall and realised just in time. But that was more luck than good judgment !
I have fixed them in today, and apart from having problems with the resin not going off due to low temperature, they seemed to go in ok.
What was a pain was measuring and re measuring to make sure I had them in the correct place. I had to make an articulation frame out of wood to keep it in place long enough for the resin to go off.
I have superemposed the brasswork in the picture to make the wokings a little clearer. The origional picture was hard to make out. Basically there just flung together so I could get the brackets glued in.
They WONT work in this configuration, but as I said its just to get the pieces glued in.
Now dismantling all the brasswear.
The stop for the shaft was awkward to glue in. I couldnt find reference to it in the instructions, so I just chamfoured the bottom edge and used resin to stick it in. Same with the control unit for the planes.
I think all the time I spent measuring all the dimentions was critical, as others have said on here they are awkward to get running correctly, and any error in measuring exagerates the fault with the planes.
Now just to clean up all the mess I made with the resin, damned stuff gets everywhere when it wont go off.