{"id":7735,"date":"2018-09-17T07:29:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T10:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foresthaveninn.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=7735"},"modified":"2018-11-09T07:07:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T11:07:44","slug":"mini-ava-refurb","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/foresthaveninn.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=7735","title":{"rendered":"Mini Ava Refurb, Sept 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mini Ava , refurbish, hasn’t been flown much but needs to be cleaned up<\/p>\n

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  • patch slots at rear of pod and repaint pod<\/li>\n
  • remove center panel covering, clean up ribs and recover in yellow<\/li>\n
  • remove inboard end of tip panel covering and replace with lite white<\/li>\n
  • remove fin rudder covering and also cover lite white<\/li>\n
  • add new rudder control horn<\/li>\n
  • relocate rudder control rod exit<\/li>\n
  • remove servo tray, add new for Hyperion Servos<\/li>\n
  • remove spoiler servos add new<\/li>\n
  • remove two different shape gussets at rear of rear center wing mount and replace with new<\/li>\n
  • repair rudder keel, cracked<\/li>\n
  • update spoiler actuation, no more fixed linkage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    Big box 100 inch mini Ava<\/p><\/div>\n

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    nicely packed, no damage<\/p><\/div>\n

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    going in, goodies<\/p><\/div>\n

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    nicely wrapped, bubbles, bubbles<\/p><\/div>\n

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    will clean up the servo mount, actually install new and square off cutout<\/p>\n

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    First look, superficial damage only?<\/p><\/div>\n

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    Stab ding between the balsa and the CF Trailing edge<\/p><\/div>\n

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    ding<\/p><\/div>\n

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    two gussets , two different shapes<\/p><\/div>\n

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    Spoiler harness wing end 4 pin connector, fine wires, pulled from pins, stripped perhaps<\/p><\/div>\n

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    Gusset knocked here<\/p><\/div>\n

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    center Panel rear mount gussets<\/p><\/div>\n

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    center panel left rear corner<\/p><\/div>\n

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    Moving right along<\/p>\n

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    spoiler servo<\/p><\/div>\n

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    center by panel, taped at leading edge<\/p><\/div>\n

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    there’s a crack in the bottom of the rudder<\/p><\/div>\n

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    more clear here<\/p><\/div>\n

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    covering pulled<\/p><\/div>\n

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    plastic, plastic<\/p><\/div>\n

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    repaired<\/p><\/div>\n

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    I just added a filler pieces, veed into place<\/p><\/div>\n

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    slots filled at rear of pod<\/p><\/div>\n

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    clean up Ca<\/p><\/div>\n

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    clean up<\/p><\/div>\n

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    push rods no longer on exterior of boom<\/p><\/div>\n

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    spoiler stops<\/p><\/div>\n

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    new gussets at rear mount<\/p><\/div>\n

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    adding the stops<\/p><\/div>\n

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    rudder pushrod in place<\/p><\/div>\n

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    stab pushrod exit<\/p><\/div>\n

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    spoiler stops, magnets in spoiler later<\/p><\/div>\n

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    new horn above the boom<\/p><\/div>\n

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    new harness, used old connectors, new wire<\/p><\/div>\n

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    need a couple spoiler servos<\/p><\/div>\n

    That’s correct it’s more yellow then the color shows, not green \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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    peeling the center panel<\/p><\/div>\n

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    some cap strips have lifted<\/p><\/div>\n

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    separation here where the tip panel joins<\/p><\/div>\n

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    tips must of got knocked<\/p><\/div>\n

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    some blue plastics<\/p><\/div>\n

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    rib trailing edge separation<\/p><\/div>\n

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    Nice d box section<\/p><\/div>\n

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    separation here<\/p><\/div>\n

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    Lite white on inboard of tip panel<\/p><\/div>\n

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    Nice, contrast<\/p><\/div>\n

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    Yellow center panel<\/p><\/div>\n

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    ready to go<\/p><\/div>\n

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     2,866 total views,  1 views today Mini Ava , refurbish, hasn’t been flown much but needs to be cleaned up Hilites \u00a0remove 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7796,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7735","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foresthaveninn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foresthaveninn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foresthaveninn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foresthaveninn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foresthaveninn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7735"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/foresthaveninn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8189,"href":"http:\/\/foresthaveninn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7735\/revisions\/8189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foresthaveninn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foresthaveninn.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}