johnhansen
Well-known member
After watching all of the YouTube videos, plus reading the various legacy build manuals, I was ready to tackle my brakes. But the videos and manuals didn’t match what I received in my kit.
I got this set of really nice AS Flightlines brake lines, but no instructions on where or how to use them. After hours of research, I found the answers. In the hardware callout document for the Model 5 under brake section, it specifies the length and end connectors for each of the included brake lines and where they go. It was still not super obvious especially with the 90 deg clocking. Then I went over the BH5 Completion pictures from the Bearhawk website and looked under brakes and viola, it showed how the brake lines are placed and connected. Compared to the traditional way of building these connections from rigid line, this is a huge time saver and look really cool.
I’m sure the other builders figured this out in half the time, but for those other first time builders, I thought I’d save you some frustrating hours of staring at the brake lines and the airplane.
I got this set of really nice AS Flightlines brake lines, but no instructions on where or how to use them. After hours of research, I found the answers. In the hardware callout document for the Model 5 under brake section, it specifies the length and end connectors for each of the included brake lines and where they go. It was still not super obvious especially with the 90 deg clocking. Then I went over the BH5 Completion pictures from the Bearhawk website and looked under brakes and viola, it showed how the brake lines are placed and connected. Compared to the traditional way of building these connections from rigid line, this is a huge time saver and look really cool.
I’m sure the other builders figured this out in half the time, but for those other first time builders, I thought I’d save you some frustrating hours of staring at the brake lines and the airplane.