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Mini Ava , refurbish, hasn’t been flown much but needs to be cleaned up
Hilites
- remove pushrods and place inside boom
- patch slots at rear of pod and repaint pod
- remove center panel covering, clean up ribs and recover in yellow
- remove inboard end of tip panel covering and replace with lite white
- remove fin rudder covering and also cover lite white
- add new rudder control horn
- relocate rudder control rod exit
- remove servo tray, add new for Hyperion Servos
- remove spoiler servos add new
- remove two different shape gussets at rear of rear center wing mount and replace with new
- repair rudder keel, cracked
- update spoiler actuation, no more fixed linkage
Big box 100 inch mini Ava
nicely packed, no damage
going in, goodies
nicely wrapped, bubbles, bubbles
will clean up the servo mount, actually install new and square off cutout
First look, superficial damage only?
Stab ding between the balsa and the CF Trailing edge
ding
two gussets , two different shapes
Spoiler harness wing end 4 pin connector, fine wires, pulled from pins, stripped perhaps
Gusset knocked here
center Panel rear mount gussets
center panel left rear corner
Moving right along
spoiler servo
center by panel, taped at leading edge
there’s a crack in the bottom of the rudder
more clear here
covering pulled
plastic, plastic
repaired
I just added a filler pieces, veed into place
slots filled at rear of pod
clean up Ca
clean up
push rods no longer on exterior of boom
spoiler stops
new gussets at rear mount
adding the stops
rudder pushrod in place
stab pushrod exit
spoiler stops, magnets in spoiler later
new horn above the boom
new harness, used old connectors, new wire
need a couple spoiler servos
That’s correct it’s more yellow then the color shows, not green 🙂
peeling the center panel
some cap strips have lifted
separation here where the tip panel joins
tips must of got knocked
some blue plastics
rib trailing edge separation
Nice d box section
separation here
Lite white on inboard of tip panel
Nice, contrast
Yellow center panel
ready to go
