---------------------------------------------------------- Zenith750-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Mon 08/22/11: 3 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 04:03 AM - Sub Kits (MacDonald Doug) 2. 06:47 AM - Re: Sub Kits (Tommy Walker) 3. 07:47 AM - Re: Sub Kits (fritz) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 04:03:33 AM PST US From: MacDonald Doug Subject: Zenith750-List: Sub Kits Dan, the manual is laid out so that you build the rudder, tail, wings, then fuse.- After scratch building my 701 helping a freind build a 750 kit, t hat order-is the way to do it.- Follow the manual especially if this is your first kit build.- You will find that the manual pretty much holds y our hand during the rudder assembly.- By the time you get to the end of t he fuselage build it is a lot more general in the instructions because it a ssumes you have learned a lot about how things go together by that point. - If you skip the wings until-later then you will be missing a lot of t he transition and will find the fuselage instructions a little bit frustrat ing.=0A-=0ADoug MacDonald=0ACH-701 from scatch=0ANW Ontario, Canada=0A- =0ADo Not Archive=0A-=0ATime: 04:22:56 AM PST US=0AFrom: "Dan Sherburn" < dsherburn@att.net>=0ASubject: Zenith750-List: Sub Kits=0A=0AI'm going to bu ild via sub kits. Can anyone recommend a good order to =0Apurchase/build? I n other words wings before fuselage, etc... ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 06:47:13 AM PST US Subject: Re: Zenith750-List: Sub Kits From: Tommy Walker I agree with Doug. built 2.5 701's and did it that way. On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 6:01 AM, MacDonald Doug wrote: > Dan, the manual is laid out so that you build the rudder, tail, wings, then > fuse. After scratch building my 701 helping a freind build a 750 kit, that > order is the way to do it. Follow the manual especially if this is your > first kit build. You will find that the manual pretty much holds your hand > during the rudder assembly. By the time you get to the end of the fuselage > build it is a lot more general in the instructions because it assumes you > have learned a lot about how things go together by that point. If you skip > the wings until later then you will be missing a lot of the transition and > will find the fuselage instructions a little bit frustrating. > > Doug MacDonald > CH-701 from scatch > NW Ontario, Canada > > Do Not Archive > > Time: 04:22:56 AM PST US > From: "Dan Sherburn" > Subject: Zenith750-List: Sub Kits > > I'm going to build via sub kits. Can anyone recommend a good order to > purchase/build? In other words wings before fuselage, etc... > > > * > > * > > ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 07:47:07 AM PST US From: "fritz" Subject: Re: Zenith750-List: Sub Kits I scratch built a 701 a long time ago----- Didn't Chris say in the manual it is easier to fit the fuselage to the wings than vise versa ???? I built fuselage last. What's said below is very important about the "learning curve". Fritz ----- Original Message ----- From: Tommy Walker To: zenith750-list@matronics.com Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 9:44 AM Subject: Re: Zenith750-List: Sub Kits I agree with Doug. built 2.5 701's and did it that way. On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 6:01 AM, MacDonald Doug wrote: Dan, the manual is laid out so that you build the rudder, tail, wings, then fuse. After scratch building my 701 helping a freind build a 750 kit, that order is the way to do it. Follow the manual especially if this is your first kit build. You will find that the manual pretty much holds your hand during the rudder assembly. By the time you get to the end of the fuselage build it is a lot more general in the instructions because it assumes you have learned a lot about how things go together by that point. If you skip the wings until later then you will be missing a lot of the transition and will find the fuselage instructions a little bit frustrating. Doug MacDonald CH-701 from scatch NW Ontario, Canada Do Not Archive Time: 04:22:56 AM PST US From: "Dan Sherburn" Subject: Zenith750-List: Sub Kits I'm going to build via sub kits. Can anyone recommend a good order to purchase/build? In other words wings before fuselage, etc... 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