Today I recieved my 1/2a C.G. Lil 'Satan that I ordered MONDAY!!!!! Awseomw shipping.  And its laser cut which is jsut great!!

 This was my first experience with ordering from Brodak and I cant help but give them kudos!!

 Now on to building this little monster!

I have yet to have much trouble ordering from any of the manufacturers.  I did have one tho the program for the laser cuter left out two wing ribs.   Hewas great about it tho.  I would be ordering more if I had planned my finances better. They are all great companies.

        Jamie, I have no experience with that engine as its prices skyrocketed over the past few years. I do have a lot of experience with the Lil Satan. Mine currently is Black Widow powered. I spent over a year trying to make this work. The backplate isn't mounted typically as most other models its horizontal so to speak. This means that needle is in line with the leading edge. You now have to cut quite a bit from the pick up tube and make it bend extremely hard to the outer corner. I haven't had success with getting it to stay put. The other problem is I can't get a full tank run. My next Satan was tee dee powered with Dave Brown mount. I used a Perfect 3/4 oz wedge. This ran horribly. It would run away from the fuel, constantly ran overlean. I think your going to need to add nose weight actually. The Black Widow does weigh more and sticks out forward over your Killer Bee. The other suggestion is, I would try and place the tank as close as you can get it to the center line of the engine. This may take a little ingenuity and rib moving to get the tank incorporated within the engine nacelle. I believe though it will be well worth it. I wouldn't use wood screws in your firewall either. I highly suggest blind nuts from the back. I place tape on my nuts prior to epoxying them. I hope nobody gets the wrong idea reading this. Anyway back to the plane. Over the past few months, I've been making most of my tanks using a Uniflow pipe. I'm finding this works far better than anything else I've tried next to a bladder. A bladder would truly be your best bet its just the thin wing is going to make installation difficult not impossible though.Keep in mind that if you make or alter a tank, do not put a overflow that hangs down as you will bend it and damage the tank on landing.  Uniflow has eliminated all of my fuel runaway problems. I'm basing this experience on the speed planes I've tried my hand at. I'm not flipping these planes into maneuvers so that could be another problem. I found that the Satan can get pretty banged up. I silkspanned mine and found out that I will never do that again as it rips constantly. Others may flame me here but Monokote is an excellent choice as its durable and easy. I was told it would twist the wing like a pretzel. It did not . I use high nitro fuel as you will more than likely be doing as well. My paint came off the firewall due to the high nitro and paint chips consistently get sucked into the screen clogging it. Remember, the Killer Bee has no screeen and if this happens its in your engine clogging the reed. Good luck, I love these little planes. It always gets attention when you bring them out. Ken

Put the needle horizontally inboard,  otherwise don't land inverted.   

There is one other solution. Put a perfect tank in the wing and use a sure start or Spook 290 or any of the non tank Coxes. You can use a tanked version but that entails drilling a hole into the tank and then hooking up some small fuel line to the nipple on the backplate. We did that a lot in my youth. Who knew that the tank and backplate were going to be worth their weight in gold. The good thing is that you can use a baby Bee tank as you don''t need stunt vented tank
Another option is to use a balloon tank, cheap and easy to make and use. It's not very hard to balance a Baby Satan so build,fly and have fun.
dennis

Whoah!  Either cover with tissue and butyrate (Brodak, Sig, Randolph, etc.) dope or Monokote.  Not both, especially on a 1/2A  You can't stand the weight, and the dope would bubble under the Monokote making a heck of a mess.

The correct setup for the engine is the needle inboard, the cylinder outboard, the vents toward the top of the plane.  Then there is no problem routing the fuel hose to the outside corner (formerly bottom) of the tank.  It works just fine, and does not require any heroic fuel hose routing.

My main issueis fuel proofing. My dad keeps telling me if I monokote it that it wont be entirely fuel-proof and the wood would go bye-bye. I was jsut gona use the dope for the fuel-proofing and a lil strength. But if just covering it outright with monokote will be fine I reckon Ill jsut go that route!

Remember the A-J Aiecraft Fire Baby by Jim Walker?  Didn't look like any kind of finish on it except for the printed colors.  I also remember a lot of kits saying only three coats of dope needed.  How did our planes so long?