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Remember that the skins are the part you spend the most time looking at, so spend a little extra time when handling them, when deburring them, clean the printing off them with GP solvent so it doesn't bleed through your paint, and get assistance when installing them to avoid dents. There is a particularly nasty "Fish Scale" dent that happens when tension all runs to one point on the sheet. They are really ugly on the finished job, you can see them happening and once they have happened they are very hard to rub out. The most critical time for help is doing the leading edge wing skins and the round corners on the fuselage.

I mounted it in the plane today, I think it would be better if it rises 10mm instead of 9mm. It is quite usable but an extra millimetre would be better.

I did it myself Dan, that is why I included the measurements so you can do it too. The Xcom kit could come with a bush as part of the custom Savannah wiring kit, but it doesn't. It didn't even have the screws to mount the radio in the panel which is disappointing. Edit: I did reply last night, but didn't hit post sorry.

I did mine with a nylon bush, the outer diameter is 28.6mm, step is 26.6mm, the riser is 16mm diameter and rises 9mm. The hole up the middle is 11mm reduced to 6.25mm where the nut seats.

You will need to find the start new Thread button at the top of the Savannah page.

Wing and fuselage skins roll up if you need them to, makes them more compact and less prone to dents when handling. You will be handling them to de-burr, then to clean, then to mask and prime with black, then to assemble. Putting them into and out of the box is a two person job if you try to handle them flat, so get some more straps like the ones they supply to form the leading edge skins, they will hold the rolls.

Can you get hold of a couple of skateboards Bob?

There is a knock off version of the paint buddy roller on the internet sometimes (They have a dark Blue top) but the tank leaks and the roller is crap so don't worry about them, About three years ago I got one of the very last original ones that was being discontinued. I went through 3 rolls of 38mm masking tape doing masking for the black mastic. Don't leave the tape on any longer than needed to dry the black or the gum dries out and you will wreck the black layer soaking it off with solvent.

Way to go. You haven't mucked around lately, I could use a bit of your momentum.

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If you do order the xcom, tell them to send you the screws too, just ridiculous that they send out a kit with no fixings. They didn't even send the mounting screws that come from electrophone with the UHF.

Don't forget your crimping pliers and coax stripper....

In a previous discussion about this same topic I have mentioned that Gundy had trouble with his Microair radio in his Savannah at Natfly. Sue and the crew on the Jabiru site pulled a brand new one out of the box still in the foil and loaned it to him to get home to Gladstone. That is real local service, went way out of their way. He had a good run out of his Xcom replacement, not sure what became of his Microair.

Got that kit sitting here beside my desk....Tell me again, when did you say you were coming to visit?

I have always wondered if the giant can opener was piloted at the time of the attack, or did it act alone?

That sounds extremely economical to me, good for you. No incentive for you to ever own a plane then.

Is it just me,Or can everyone hear that ticking noise?

Sound like he has school fees due soon.

Looked a bit like the 50Hertz dance my electrician friends describe.

The cracking occurs because the lexan is such a good thermal insulator and the evaporating fuel chills the tensioned face of the curved sheet causing it to shrink even more which causes the cracking. I am thinking your friends put fuel on un stressed sheets or else the ambient temperature was much lower than in Australia so the temperature reduction of the evaporation became ineffective.

Most blokes would!

Considering the app costs the same on android and apple, so when is the functionality of the android app going to start to approach the apple one? It is still extremely Lite for a premium priced app.

What about a rod failure? You need some spring to open the throttle or it will be tiger taming time.

Would the standard setup benefit form the gentle return springs?

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