ahh the Astro Hog. Ugly, but I heard it flies great -Todd On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 6:00 PM, John Gotschall <johng...@comcast.net>wrote:
> > > Oily wood... > > > I was once gifted an RC airplane, called an astro hog. This astro hog > had years and years of flight time on it. > > It was very well constructed, but after years of flying, the wood at the > firewall, foredeck and bottom was soaked through with caster and > synthetic oils from the model airplane fuel. > > I needed to dry that wood out and epoxy had to stick to it, in order to > replace the firewall. > > I used K2R (not KR2) spot lifter. Every day for 2 weeks I'd apply the > spot lifter, every night, scrap it off and reapply. > > Afer two weeks, I was able to install a new firewall to that (once) oil > soaked fuselage, allowing me to install the new (twice max recommended > power) german engine I had in surplus. > > worked great, lotsa poser too. > > Unfortunately the plane was lost when the ailerons responded to > uncommanded input (on short final) from a defective potentiometer in the > RC handset. > > The firewall never let go of what was at one time oil soaked wood. > > jg > > > > > > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >
