Arthur
Get the build area sorted!
Messy
In order to build the “perfect plane” I have to have “peace of mind”. 
This can be achieved in an environment that is fully Feng Shui, organised and clean. As the current building room is not yet up to par, some work needs to be done here…
This can be achieved in an environment that is fully Feng Shui, organised and clean. As the current building room is not yet up to par, some work needs to be done here…Improved build area
After some hard work, where I added a large table and some storage place on the wall, I organised the RC- kit that was rusting away up till now in the shed outside. Now this is starting look like a proper building room.Build plank
The only thing that is still lacking is a build-plank.Requirements for this build plank are:
- Perfectly straight so wings will not get build warped
- Long enough, so all parts fit on the table
- slightly soft, so I can push needles in the surface
Surfaces that have been considered are (o.a.):
- Dry-wall
- Cork (also used as sound insulator on walls)
- regular plywood
I settled for the plywood, as my previous builds have been made on this as well and I have no complaints on this material. I bought some 10mm plywood (1220x610mm) and put some iron-on strips on the sides to prevent splintering (looks really nice to…). As @rob is going to try out some industrial cork, I am really curious as to how that works. That could be a nice upgrade in the future. Dry-wall is not my material of choice as I suspect that pushing in pins and needles in roughly the same spot will cause a messy surface.
So now that all the preparations are done,… let’s get building![kkstarratings]
The Motor has arrived!
Small parts of the hardware order are coming in… 
Funny how a €14,- motor from China comes in a nice box, with fasteners, shrink-wrap, multiple prop-adapters, spare axel, bullet-connectors and rubberbands for a flexible prop adaptor…
Funny how a €14,- motor from China comes in a nice box, with fasteners, shrink-wrap, multiple prop-adapters, spare axel, bullet-connectors and rubberbands for a flexible prop adaptor…Inside F5J Hobbyking motor choice
Motor choice Inside F5J
Well, The bullet is through the church (as we say in dutch…). After long searching on the Hobbyking website, during which Hobbyking changed their category layout (nice work guys! Now I realy can’t find anything anymore and it was shit to begin with!!!), we have made our choices for the Inside F5J Hobbyking motor and servo’s setup. Basically, we have chosen a setup of about €100,- (ex transport), which I think is quite good, compared to the advised setup with the Hacker motor/esc and the graupner servos. The latter would set you back approximately €350,-. This effectively means that we can afford to f#ck up our setup about 3 times… Sounds good to me!
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