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- Page 1 79" Slick 580 ARF Instruction Manual Copyright 2016 Extreme Flight RC...
- Page 2 THIS IS NOT A TOY! Serious injury, destruction of property, or even death may result from the misuse of this product. Extreme Flight RC is providing you, the consumer, with a very high quality model aircraft component kit, from which you, the consumer, will assemble a flying model.
- Page 3 Items needed for completion: Masking tape. Hobby knife with #11 blades. Thin and Medium CA. We highly recommend Mercury M5T thin and M100XF medium formulas as well as the Mercury glue tips. 30 minute epoxy. Blue Loctite. ...
- Page 4 Tips for Success: 1. Before starting assembly, take a few minutes to read the entire instruction manual to familiarize yourself with the assembly process. 2. Note that this aircraft is covered using our printed covering technique. Your aircraft has been sealed with a gloss clearcoat. Due to climate changes, wrinkles may develop in the covering.
- Page 5 NOTE: Some photos in this manual use another of our aircraft, but all of our 50cc sized aerobatic aircraft assemble nearly identically. Let's begin! 1. Locate the 2 wing panels and the aileron control hardware as shown. Use a soldering iron or sharp hobby blade to remove the covering over the servo opening and the slots for the aileron horn.
- Page 6 2. Use sandpaper to scuff the portion of the horn that will be inserted into the control surface. Do this for all control horns on your aircraft before installing them. 3. Locate the square control horn plate, and assemble the horn as shown. Insert into the aileron without glue, and use the plate as a guide to cut the covering around the plate.
- Page 7 4. Using 30-minute epoxy, glue to the horn into the surface, making sure the screw holes are lined up with each other. Wipe up any excess epoxy, and clean up with denatured alcohol. Repeat the entire process for the other wing half and allow both to dry.
- Page 8 5. Attach a 12” servo extension wire to the aileron servo, and make sure it is secured with tape or heat shrink or a lock. Use the servo manufacturer supplied mounting hardware to install the servo as shown. Electronically center the servo and install a 1.5"...
- Page 9 Place the wheel on the axle and secure with the wheel collar, use a 1.5mm hex river to tighten the collar set screw 9. Attach the carbon landing gear to the fuselage. The screws are installed into the fuselage for shipping, remove them first. Use Loctite thread-locking compound on these screws when you install them.
- Page 10 Using epoxy or rubber cement, attach the gear cover plate as shown. 10. Locate the gear cuffs. Slide them up the gear legs to the fuselage, place a dollop of rubber cement inside the gear cuff to glue the cuff to the carbon gear leg. Screw the cuff to the gear with wood screws as shown.
- Page 11 11. Insert the wheel and axle into the wheel pant. Place the threaded portion of the axle through the hole in the landing gear and screw the locking nut onto the axle, making sure the wheel pant is positioned properly. Use the included metal wrench to hold the axle as shown, and tighten the nut securely.
- Page 12 Scuff center of rudder control horns with sandpaper, remove a covering square under plate as you did for the aileron horns, and glue into rudder with epoxy as shown. Make sure rudder horn is centered in the rudder, side to side. Allow to cure. Note: The same horn is used for either front-mounted pull-pull rudder or rear-mounted push-pull rudder control.
- Page 13 13. While the rudder horn cures, install the tailwheel as shown, using thread-locking compound on the screws. 14. The rudder on the 79" Slick 580 is removable for transport, held in place by a steel wire pin which runs the entire height of the rudder. Locate this wire pin and lube it with silicone spray lube or another plastic-safe lube.
- Page 14 15. Locate elevator hardware as shown. Install elevator horns as shown, using the same technique as the previous horns.
- Page 15 16. Attach a 36" servo wire extension to your elevator servos, use a plastic lock or tape to make sure the wire connection cannot come loose in flight. Feed the wires through the tube in the fuselage as shown. Install the elevator servos as shown using the mounting hardware included with your servos.
- Page 16 17. Locate the carbon spar tube for the horizontal stabilizers/elevators. Insert the tube into the fuselage and slide the stabs/elevators on. Secure with screws and washers. NOTE: If you intend the remove your stabs for transport, don't Loctite these screws. If you intend the stabs to be permanent, use Loctite.
- Page 17 Place the firewall drilling template over the firewall and drill the four holes for engine mounting, and the additional holes you need for your installation. Most installations will not use a choke servo, and so do not need the hole for the choke pushrod.
- Page 18 19. Mount your engine as indicated by the manufacturer. To determine the exact length of standoffs and shims you need, place the cowl on the airplane and measure as shown to the firewall, and subtract the length of your engine. For a DA-50, a 2.5 inch standoff is needed.
- Page 19 21. Mount your fuel tank (we recommend the Extreme Flight Flowmaster 14 oz. or 17oz. tank) and run the lines, mount your fuel filler in the fuselage as shown. 22. Test-fit your cowl onto the fuselage. You will need to cut your cowl to fit around the cylinder head of your engine if you are using a single-cylinder engine, and for any additional cooling desired.
- Page 20 23. Once you are satisfied with the fit of your cowl, make sure any equipment under the cowl (ignition, any lines, throttle or choke linkage hardware) is installed properly and well-restrained, and prepare to install the cowl. Cut and place pieces of tape as shown to indicate the location of the cowl retention nuts in the fuselage.
- Page 21 Place your cowl onto your airplane and install your spinner backplate. Make sure you some clearance between the backplate and cowl, we recommend 1/8" (3mm). Use tape to hold the cowl in place and roll the tips of your tape indicators forward over the cowl to indicate the locations of the holes.
- Page 22 Note: Depending on the size and weight of your power system and batteries, the weight of your spinner and prop, or the type of exhaust on your motor, you can use either a front-mounted rudder servo operated through pull-pull cables, or a rear-mounted rudder servo operated through a pushrod.
- Page 23 25. Forward, pull-pull cable rudder control. The cable connection is made as shown: We recommend taping the rudder in the straight-ahead position during installation of the cables and servo to prevent any surprises. Make the forward cable connections, crimp the brass sleeves, and then install your servo and attach the cables to the arm as shown.
- Page 24 With your servo and rudder centered, make the rear cable connections to the rudder control horn as shown. Screw or unscrew the ball links to make the cable longer or shorter for tightness. A really-tight "banjo string" cable is not needed, and puts extra load on the rudder servo.
- Page 25 27. SFG installation. Note the shape of the SFG's used on the 79" slick, they may appear "backwards" the first time you see them. This is by design, for performance reasons. They attach to blind nuts hidden in the wingtips as shown. 28.
- Page 26 Electric power, continued: If the wood extension box is not the right size for your installation, or your power system exceeds its limits, regular standoffs should be used as shown. Note the location of the ESC, try to keep your ESC in strong airflow for cooling.
- Page 27 29.Balancing and rigging for maiden flight. Balance your aircraft by supporting it under the wings at the root, where the wing mounts to the fuselage. The balance range is 5.5 inches to 6.5 inches (140mm-165mm) from to the front of the wing. This is from the front of the wing tube to the back of the wing tube. For the initial flight, we recommend balancing at the front of the wing tube (5.5 ") and only moving the CG back if you find that you need to after checking the CG in the air according to the procedure outlined below.
- Page 28 People often ask me at trade shows how I get the planes to look so shiny, this is my secret. Thanks again for your purchase of the 3DHobbyShop 79" Slick 580 ARF. I hope you enjoy assembling and flying yours as much as I have mine. See you at the flying field! Extreme Flight RC...
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