burritoman1
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I'm currently building a Madcow Super DX3 and since I added quite a bit of weight to the back, the sim calls for about a pound of nose weight in order to hit 2 cals of stability. The method I usually use is to drill a hole into the nosecone and fill it with lead weights and epoxy. However, the DX3 instructions explicitly state that the epoxy alone will not stick to the nose cone, and that i must add screws through the nosecone into the weights to secure them, and then grind down the heads of the screws so they are flush with the surface of the nose cone. The whole thing seems a bit convoluted, especially since the weights I use are fishing weights which are far too small to screw into. My alternate solution is to add the weights and then fill the remaining volume with expanding foam. However I don't have any experience with that method so I'd like to hear some other people's ideas before continuing.