Racer38
01-13-2005, 09:23 PM
Well I spent the entire day building my Spectra and its now ready for the electronics.
I have been keeping up with my documentation and doing a ton of photo's as I go so it will probably be a pretty lengthy Article.
I did find that printing the manual helped but the resolution on the diagrams isnt all that great.
I had one problem and a quick call to MA got the correct parts on the way, it seems some of the blind nuts that are suppose to be 3mm are the same as the 2.5 mm just like the servos. I ended up with 5 of them that are wrong. MA is sending me some new ones but rather than wait I ran a 3mm tap through them and all is well. They said they have seen a couple of others with this problem, it appears the insertion tool used is the same for the 2.5 and 3.0, anyway someone got them mixed up a bit.
The build went real smooth and I have taken alot of time doing the documentation and photos for the article.
Hopefully I will get the electronics all mounted tomorrow and will fire her up this weekend.
I still need to send the canopy out to Rick and get a cool paint job done as well.
More to come.. BTW Those build up videos are too cool !!! Way to go guys !
Hey also is it common tohave a pretty good pile of extra hardware :?:
L8R Craig
I have been keeping up with my documentation and doing a ton of photo's as I go so it will probably be a pretty lengthy Article.
I did find that printing the manual helped but the resolution on the diagrams isnt all that great.
I had one problem and a quick call to MA got the correct parts on the way, it seems some of the blind nuts that are suppose to be 3mm are the same as the 2.5 mm just like the servos. I ended up with 5 of them that are wrong. MA is sending me some new ones but rather than wait I ran a 3mm tap through them and all is well. They said they have seen a couple of others with this problem, it appears the insertion tool used is the same for the 2.5 and 3.0, anyway someone got them mixed up a bit.
The build went real smooth and I have taken alot of time doing the documentation and photos for the article.
Hopefully I will get the electronics all mounted tomorrow and will fire her up this weekend.
I still need to send the canopy out to Rick and get a cool paint job done as well.
More to come.. BTW Those build up videos are too cool !!! Way to go guys !
Hey also is it common tohave a pretty good pile of extra hardware :?:
L8R Craig