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Title: Tip Weight Box
Post by: James Mills on August 27, 2014, 10:05:13 PM

I'm putting together a Top Flite ARF Nobler and I was adding a tip weight  box and made the mistake of putting the box in the top of the tip instead of the bottom.  Since it's an ARF and there are no appearance points I want to ask if it really matters if it's in the top or bottom of the tip?

Thanks,

James

Title: Re: Tip Weight Box
Post by: Tim Wescott on August 27, 2014, 11:46:41 PM

There's no difference performance-wise.

Title: Re: Tip Weight Box
Post by: Jim Thomerson on August 28, 2014, 06:47:52 AM

I've done that, unintentionally, on two recent airplanes.

Title: Re: Tip Weight Box
Post by: Tim Wescott on August 28, 2014, 09:47:50 AM

Quote from: Jim Thomerson on August 28, 2014, 06:47:52 AM

I've done that, unintentionally, on two recent airplanes.

The last thing I did like that was to custom-build a fuel tank for a full-fuselage ARF, designed to extract every last drop of fuel from the side of the tank to my left as I looked at the nose of the plane.  Then I turned the plane upright and said some really bad words.

Title: Re: Tip Weight Box
Post by: Tim Wescott on August 28, 2014, 07:33:40 PM

Actually, the very last time I did something like that was when I read this thread and thought "oh dang, I need to go cut into a wing and make a weight box" (epoxy drying as we speak).