Now the missus is at work and the dogs behaving herself for once I got some good time for the boat today. I spent the first hour basically trying to get the nuts on the top of the WTC (water tight compartment) to fit. The problem is the whole WTC has warped slightley. It has been like this from day one, up till now its not really been a prolem.
But when I came to put the nuts on today the ones on the Forward-starboard side would not fit at all. I have had to remove a section of the white liner that fits under the lid, and file a bit of the alluminium lid on the corner to make it fit, just to get round the warped WTC. Not much of a problem, but why on earth German kits have such fine tolerances? When the bolts are 9MM, the WTC is 3MM thick, and the lid is 3MM, the gasket is 2MM leaving 1MM to get a nut on ?
Any imperfections in the WTC or the lid and your knackered! Dont think a few extra MM's are going to harm anyone ?
So thats done now I was just messing round with fitting bellows onto the control arms, and glueing in the captive bolts for the motors and such that have came loose.
I have modified the rudder mechanism, basically made the control plate a lot smoother and narrower to make it slide inside the tail a bit easyer, but nothing intersting.
The antennae is fixed under the WTC and round to inner lid of it. The kit is designed not to have an external one so inside it is!
The only thing of note is I have replaced the M4 nuts with a butterfly nut instead. This is personal preferance, I hate having to get a box driver and remove all the nuts on a cold winters day with no feeling in your fingers. I always drop them, so these are easyer to work on with. Pricey for what they are but worth it.
Only problem now is the Bow thruster is ready to go but I have ran out of functions on the reciever. A multi Switch decoder maybe on the horizon. But a little while yet, or she will kick up a fuss again
Paul