Continuing/finishing (?) a Revell 1/72 type VIIC from another user

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Subdriver is officially in the mail... its SUPPOSED to be in your hands by Friday David!

lemme know when you get it... cause I have a small request if possible.... can you put the snort manifold on top of the SD in it's proper possition for the Type 7 ... on the other side of the 'gas' tank... so it's under my conning tower and not under the deck gun.. LOL

if it requires a new tube, and its a PITA .. then no worries I'm appreciative either way just getting the leaks taken care of :D

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alright.. it's in a box ... padded the best I can manage and guess against the best efforts of CP and USPS LOL ... but I missed the chance to get it in the mail...

so soon as I can get my ass to a post office on time I'll get it out to you ...

thanks again Dave... I really do enjoy the building aspect ... just a little growly at the fact I anticipated it a little easier with purchasing so much "all ready done" ... but alas.. I'm a big boy and life goes on.. and the Sum'***** will get wet for the summer damnit! LOL

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Very good. We'll get you up and running.

David

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no worries

only shots your sure to miss are the ones you don't take right? ...

I'll have it in the mail system end of next week (pay and scheduling)

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

(in the voice of the Soup Nazi)

No SAS for you! ...

You're struggling as it is, let's keep this adventure a simple one, OK?

Send the whole kit-and-kabudle. I'll re-build everything and get it into working order, send it back to you, and you start enjoying this hobby.

Crawl, walk, only then run!

David

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*tried to send a message... didn't work.. *

I just had a thought

do you want/need any outside SAS testers? ... I would be willing/interested if you could build a Type 7 SAS SD withough the gas chamber/system ? I understand I would have to make the sealing vavle bit within the conning tower..

if that doesn't jive ... how would you like the SD sent back ... with all the electrics inside? or would you like me to pull the RX, controlllers and basically just send it with motors and servos?

I would like to make it really clear that I don't hold D&E resposible at all ... infact I'm over the moon with the help you've given me ... I'm just a little cross with Iran right now as purchase was all I had to do was make control rods, balast and paint... and well... I've had to go over and readjust every thing he's done.. LOL to the point that the snort manifold on top of the SD is in the wrong place and didn't even clear the deck properly...

however life goes on! ...

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

I'll do just that. Package it up, send it in for a replacement. Sorry about that.

David D Merriman lll
835 Holly Hedge Ave.
Virginia Beach, VA 23452

David

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oooohhhhh (cue the music and sing along... you know the tune)

---- theres a hole in my SD dear davey dear davey
theres a hole in my SD dear davey
a hole....

yeah my SD leaks.... the O ring around the engine room endcap leaks like a siv ... the master switch in the battery room leaks(that should be pretty easy to shore up with some silicone) .. and the seal for the pushrod for the vent/gas leaks.... and possibly the oring for the balast tank at the other end of the engine room ...

considering the SD was supposed to be perfect as purchased(and I've read all the fixes IR3 had already been through on the forum here) .. and all the fixes I've been having to make... I'm sorta choked right now ...

I know the guys here will stand by the SD and work with me for the parts I need to get the SD running 100% .. I don't have the tools to take apart and rebuild the gas system wall and seal without breaking ****...

hey Dave... any chance for a trade in/upgrade I'm sure you could do minor work to this thing and resell it easily...

message me and lets get either this or something else sorted :D

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rough filled the saddle tanks with foam... will more finish shave it to fit the SD later tonight... did some rearranging of the wiring in the SD so the functions matched where i wanted them on the Transmitter.

had to Westernize my transmitter too, as the clicker was on the Right stick and spring on the left stick... switched that around..

also gassed the SD to see/check that for leaks and functions... appears to be all working proper.

made my hose to pressurize the SD for a water/leak test... but forgot my darned valve tool at work

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haha! .. yeah .. glues already drying...

as awesome as it seemed to have one so far already built .. definately would have been more steps forward to have done the build myself. Far less "what the hell is this doing like this? " moments...

SD checking/tweaking ... foam/trim... and paint left now... looks like I've got all the control surfaces sorted...

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Things break. Fix 'em!

This is the hard-part of an assembly like this: you near the end, you assume (wrongly) that all you have done is final, and there are only steps forward. As you're finding (and already knew), as you deal with an ever increasing machine of complexity, the likelihood of breakage and one task undoing a previous task(s), things start getting 'touchier' and advancement with the project seems to slow down as new, unexpected problems arise demanding your attention and creativity.

Gut-check time. Take heart, buddy ... you're not as far from the goal as you think.

David

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yeah rudder travel is fine... I'll probably end up taking some travel from the bow planes via my radio end points

think I've got the stern planes sorted... after breaking more stuff ofcourse... I've now managed to snap off both of the outter support peices for the stern planes now...

at the rate I keep snapping peices I'm really considering selling or trading this thing for a complete 1:230 skipjack kit... but it's probably just minor frustration talking... but hey... if theres any chance of a trade Dave... lemme know... LOL!

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

35-degrees from center is the maximum effective throw. You don't need much stern plane, ten-degree up and ten-degree down is plenty.

Sounds like your linkages down-stream of the SD are sloppy. Tighten things up in there.

David

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before I go too nuts... what kinda sweep are all of the control surfaces supposed to have?

my bow planes and rudder seem to have a TON of movement .. and my stern planes nearly none

if I look at my attach points for the stern of the boat ... I have it rigged as: left - bow, center - rudder, right - stern

have I got this right? does it matter? ... the far right servo doesn't seem to have any less movement ... but when I hook up a control rod.. it does...

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success! .... sorta... I got the stern planes apart... I grabbed em with my mechanic ham fists said "puny plastic boat HULK SMASH!" and yanked em apart ....

well not exactly .. but that's what it felt like once the stern planes finally let go in spring loaded fashion as things that are barely moving seem to always do at the end.

so the glue is drying on the poor little supporting arm on one side that snapped off in fabulous fashion ... and the glue is also drying on the stern plane that 'somehow' developed fractures while I was repositioning the square tube inside it so that the bellcrank sat in a better position and get better sweep angles of the planes

hoping this weekend to get the initial foam in the hull and move onto the tweaking/checking the SD in prep for first bathtime... I mean ... initial testing in the domestic test tank.