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| victorb | Heliman - Location: Newark, DE, USA - |
TT 50 Koala BuildJust finishing up the build and am trying to decide whether to use the decals provided or another scheme.
Kit quality is very very nice, for a TT prepainted fuse. All the parts fit nicely.
My kit was missing the Hardware bag so a complete inventory should be done before starting the build. I called TT (ACE) Customer Service and they had one in the mail the same day. Instructions are pretty well straight forward, and in sequence, just a few words left out here and there, but nothing detremental to the build.
Wood parts were very good quality and the assembly was tru and well pre-assembled. Most of the of the assembly time was spent contouring the "feet" of the platform, to match the interior contour of the fuse, which hold the full length wood platform to the body. On this build, you have to attach the mechanics to the flooring platform to get everything square and then backdrill thru the Fuse so as to lineup with the landing gear.
The landing gear cross tubes attach using an alluminum screw (must be sacrifical, incase of a bad landing) I replaced with a sturdier steel Dubro socket panhead screw. One of the alluminum screw provided broke when installing.
There are approx 27 each 2.0mm screws holding the attached parts,(Cockpit and Upper Cover) and TT doesn't say in the instruction to add the same # of backup plywood plates to the underside of the surfaces, provides more meat for the screws for holding.
Sorry for being so long winded but when you start putting all this down, from the build the flow doesn't want to stop.
Good luck it should be very enjoyable build and as soon as I can I will provide Pix's.
Vic
    
I Have a Love Hate relationship with this hobby, Love to Build, but Hate to Crash.. |
| 07-05-2008 06:43 PM | | | |
