Shoulda waited longer.

I wanted to use dope paint for most of the re builds. I used Rustoelum lacquer for the white on the "Wild Thing". I gave it that same trim design as the other one. When I sprayed the butyrate clear dope over the white things didn't go well. It ended up looking like a weathered paint job. When I saw that I ordered two cans of two part urethane clear for the other two planes. I flew the Wild Thing this morning and it flew well but needed some tweaking as I expected. The engine ran well but needed more elevator throw whick I took care of at home after the session. I also flew the Vector 40 which I haden't flown since March 31. I had put the Brodak 40 back in with a metal tank so I figured there would be some problems. It took a couple short flights to clear the gunk out of things and the plane was very touchy. I made some adjustments at home and flushed the fuel system. Back in March the vector was not steady in level flight. Since then I have found that lmaking the leading edge of the stabilizer pointed instead of round makes a big difference in how stable the plane is. I have tried this on others in the fleet and got very good results. I taped pieces of 1/8 diameter carbon rod to the leading edge and the Vector was nice and stable in level flight. As with the others, all 1/2 inch thick stabilizers, I glued the rods to the leading edges and covered them with trim kote. As an aside, a hawk was sitting on the baseball back stops while the field was being mowed and while I was flying not far away. I was surprised that the bird stayed so close while the other activitys were going on. The newly mowed grass gave him better hunting.