HobbyKing's Tips Bench Tuesday - How to Repair a Crashed RC Foam (EPO) Plane
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2024
- After crashing an RC foam plane, how do you repair the damage and get it flying again? Rob goes over some tips and tricks to give more life to your crashed RC EPO planes. The plane being repaired is the Avios Grand Tundra Plus after an unfortunate weekend flight.
Intro: 00:00
Grand Tundra Crash: 00:18
Adhesive Recommendations: 01:31
Reinforce Joints with Bamboo Skewers: 03:13
Uncovering Hidden Issues: 05:22
Repairing the Fuselage: 06:45
Fixing the Landing Gears: 20:25
Wrap-up: 21:30
Outro, Featured Products, Close-ups: 24:04
The Durafly Tundra has had a massive cult following within the RC community and it's said to be one of the best RC planes on the market with an impressive flight envelope. We've followed this with the Avios Grand Tundra, which has all your favorite features from the original Durafly Tundra, but on a larger scale and with further improvements.
From slow flight through to fast aerobatics, the Grand Tundra does it all with such finesse. You can enjoy short take-off and landings (STOL) with its massive 90-degree flaps, wing vortex generators, large wheels, optional floats, navigation lights, and much more! If you are looking for a big RC foam plane that can also double up as a floatplane, then look no further.
Get the Avios Grand Tundra Plus: bit.ly/37tdAFi
Grand Tundra spare parts are compatible with previous and current versions of the Avios Grand Tundra (unless otherwise stated).
Featured in this video:
Foam-Cure EPP and EPO Foam Glue 4 oz: bit.ly/3CwX0CF
Maxi-Cure Extra Thick CA Glue 4. oz: bit.ly/2VK0qB1
Insta-Set CA Accelerator 2. oz: bit.ly/3s50ck5
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Thank you these are the kind of videos that are super important to this hobby and often overlooked and underrated. These repairs are a lot easier than people think but are a bit overwhelming at first glance most of the time for most people.
Glad to help
Nice Job Rob! See you around the flying fields!
Stronger than it was when new ! Nice work
Nice Rob, glad to see ya buddy, everyone need to learn how to fix their planes, thanks for sharing 👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼
Very helpful. The skewer part is an excellent point to follow.
Great to hear!
Great video , thanks for taking the time to film this .
Nice job!!!! You sold me on the Hobbyking adhesive that you made the repair with. I'll add a couple bottles with the airplane order I'm putting together now.
Keep up the fantastic work!!! Love the how to videos!!!
Thanks for that positive feedback! More to come!
Nice work. I know that the video did not have time for a touch up as it would have required some fill and waterbase color match up. Newbees may not know this. Just to mention I use the old formula Sherwin Williams - Lite Spackle to do the fill. The container feels low on weight like it is empty. Lite! I used to use DAP Lite spackle and others but they changed the formula and it doesn't sand nice anymore in a short time period. It takes very little sanding as it dries fairly quick and then I usually blend my waterbase match paint and either mask spray or brush it on. I like to speed up drying time with a warm air blow gun on it also.
After the fun fly yesterday I am going to need to use some of this!
Just pour half a stick of hot glue in it that does the job for me every time 😂
Great tips, thanks for sharing.
Thanks. First "minor" repair required today and this video really helped.
Grateful 😊
Superb video !there is hope for us all . Fix it don’t bin it !
🤞 More on the way!
Fabulous, dude, what an inspiration. My teacher said a true RC guy is a guy. That's got tape and glue on his plane. I guess that's me .😮
Right on brother, you do awesome work, great job. I'm watching you tonight because I broke my plane today. Haha ha, I will copy you now much, Aloha.
My little Tundra looked about he same and I just glued the nose back on with Uhu Por without reinforcement. It does look pretty solid though. It’s waiting for first flight after repairs. Should be ok, but I’ll definitely think about reinforcements for the next repair, especially because the foam tends to get a bit mushy from a crash.
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for this Video. I was gonna buy a new fuse for my V1200 now I know I can glue. 👍👍
Glad I could help
Great video,I have the Flight V900.I fix it with epoxy and paint it with testers paints.Testers paints match the paint on the plane very well,almost seamlessly.Thank you for the video
Amazing
Thank you! Cheers!
I got to put all this advice into practice this weekend when I strained my Arrows Bigfoot through the middle of a ponderosa pine tree, and it came out the other side in about 8 pieces. 5 bbq skewers and 6 hot glue cartridges later it looks like Frankenstein's monster but flies again.
Good stuff!
my Habu is 43% Foam Cure now
Thank you for the clear explanation. I crashed my Grand Avios Tundra today and need to fix a lot. Too bad that not all parts can be ordered in the Netherlands. I have wanted to order parts 3 months earlier, but they are still not there.. In any case I am going to work on repairing my Tundra. Kind regards Fred
Hot glue is the only glue I’ll ever use on foam planes. Never had a problem and seal so strong that when I crash again those hot glue sections stay intact.
Hey, Bud, what kind of hot glue gorilla glue?
@@HAWAII-uh7sc any hot glue will do
Agree. But what about the hinges. I tried contact cement still waiting to see if it works
Tbh,, hot glue is the best one for epo/any foamies plane, even polyfoam that easily break 😂
Great video! Thanks for sharing your knowledge! What kind of glue did you use on the cowl? It's plastic...
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Thanks
I imagine if that foam had had reinforcing spars running through the fuse nose to tail before the crash, it probably would never have broken at all...
Maybe... but that adds weight... some people wouldn't like that.
@@robcaprio1498 one structural brace that weights a few grams is better then no structure at all.. 😊
Nice video Rob. I'll be sharing on our club's Facebook page. Where can I get a sweet shirt like that?? ;)
You'd have to order one... we had them custom-made.
Which CA (thin, medium, thick or foam safe) did you use for the landing gear plate?
Nice job. I have gotten presents(?) with pieces of foam broken off the wing. or Tall parts. Do you have hints on fitting a fresh piece of foam?
I don't at the moment but that's a good idea for a new video so watch this space for an update!
I just crashed my new e flite fw 190 and I am devastated. My first crash in the hobby. Looks like it’s not the end of the world upon further research. I can probably fly it again after some glue and replacement parts
You can take a piece of the plane and go to hobby Lobby and find the color that best matches the colors on your plane.Thats what I did And a side note,the paint went up in price,it's almost 4 dollars for one little jar.Back in my childhood days it used to cost 50 cents.
ive had better luck over all on large breaks up front where all the weight is by using Hot Glue which adds even more weight up there where its needed anyway. with the C.A.Glue ive had them fracture right on the edge of the repair over time.
👍👍👍👍👍
My front-end foam is smashed in and puffed out. I need to reshape my foam back to its original shape before I can glue anything, but I don’t know what I can do to re-shape it.
Heat is your ally here. Use a heat gun (not too close) to heat the foam a bit and then press it back into shape. Sometimes the back of a spoon is very helpful.
Is Foam-Cure the same as Clear Gorilla Glue?
I noticed that there was some foam crushed on the left side of the fuselage just behind the nose. Wouldn't this throw off the thrust angle and at a minimum mess up the trim? Is there a way of un-crushing that foam? Thanks.
You are correct ,that's why most people i know leave the foam in hot wat6er for a while for the foam to recover back to as close as original as it can get , then follow this process .
Yes. A bit of heat applied to the foam and it's reshaped easily.
@@BreatheRC problem with the hot water technique is the snakeskin finish afterwards. A tip I find works brilliantly is to GENTLY rub the affected area with the back of a metal spoon whilst the foam is still warm. Done properly you shouldn't be able to tell it was ever reshaped.
@@kevinlane Thats exactly the method i use 👍
First of all barbecue sticks weaken the foam and everything know hot glue is cheap and the best not epoxy it's too hard .these sticks made weak spots best too use hot glue ,thank for trying to help young people
I've never had skewers weaken anything and even if they did the benefit of having them outweighs the potential loss.
Can you use white/wood glue for this repair?
I wouldn't... I'd suggest always using an adhesive designed for use on foam.
How do uncompress foam?
La réparation est très, très moyenne, et la finition est du même jus. Pour la solidité, j'ai un gros doute. La réparation est trop basée sur la colle, et les joncs en bois devraient être plus longs, pour pouvoir encaisser la rotation et l'accélération du moteur et la contrainte du poids de l'accu.
The repair is just fine and it's as strong or stronger than the original fuselage.
What's needed is a better foam.
Beer cooler foam is a joke.