OK, so I admit this is one of my more bone-headed things I've done lately. Embarrassing as it is, I need some advice.
I've had a lot of fun flying the 2.26" and 1.26" versions of LOC Sandhawk so I wanted to up scale to the larger 3.1" version from LOC.
Here's where I painted myself into a corner. I glued in the motor mount into the main body tube before I attached the bridle. i know, I know, but for some reason I thought this was a 4" tube. So now I have a 53" long 3.1" tube that I can't reach down to quick link in the bridle onto the eye bot and I"m not sure the best option.
FYI: From the top of the body tube to the eye-bolt is 53" and neither I nor my girlfriend can reach down far enough to get to the eye bolt in the top of the forward centering ring.
What I'm working on is using a spring snap hook to catch the eye bolt somehow using a dowel to reach down and snap onto the eye bolt. Something like this:
Failing that, I guess I'll have to cut a small portal into the body tube just at the eye bolt and screw on a quick link through the hole. I just don't look forward to sliding a coupler all the way down there to patch it.
Am I the first person to do something this dumb!? I would greatly appreciate any advice on how to get myself out of this pickle.
~Dave~
I've had a lot of fun flying the 2.26" and 1.26" versions of LOC Sandhawk so I wanted to up scale to the larger 3.1" version from LOC.
Here's where I painted myself into a corner. I glued in the motor mount into the main body tube before I attached the bridle. i know, I know, but for some reason I thought this was a 4" tube. So now I have a 53" long 3.1" tube that I can't reach down to quick link in the bridle onto the eye bot and I"m not sure the best option.
FYI: From the top of the body tube to the eye-bolt is 53" and neither I nor my girlfriend can reach down far enough to get to the eye bolt in the top of the forward centering ring.
What I'm working on is using a spring snap hook to catch the eye bolt somehow using a dowel to reach down and snap onto the eye bolt. Something like this:
Failing that, I guess I'll have to cut a small portal into the body tube just at the eye bolt and screw on a quick link through the hole. I just don't look forward to sliding a coupler all the way down there to patch it.
Am I the first person to do something this dumb!? I would greatly appreciate any advice on how to get myself out of this pickle.
~Dave~