Reichard Modelsport MANDARIN User manual

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Mandarin
Dear friends,
Thank you for purchasing our F5J competition high performance electric-powered glider Mandarin.
Mandarin is made from selected special light balsa wood.
Special Features:
•Carbon fuselage ; carbon gondole and carbon / kevlar tail tube
•Foam core balsa sheeted two-piece wing
•Made by CNC technology
•Pre-made servo trays
•Two carbon wing joiners
•Fiberglass tail parts
•Fiberglass canopy
•Pre-hinged ailerons
•Oracover on wings and balsa tail parts
•Tight covering, with all seams hand-sealed
•Includes all necessary hardware
RC function:
•Rudder
•Elevator
•Ailerons
•Flaps
•Motor

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Fuselage:
Glue together assembly of No.1 , 2 and 3 bulkheads (see fig. ). Insert bulkhead assembly into fuselage
as deep as possible without problems and too force (fig.). Glue the assembly in this position by 5min
epoxy. Glue the front motor mount bulkhead with -3° down and 2° right angles (fig. ). Fuselage pod is
sharped in these angles. Glue the No. 4 bulkhead in the end of fuselage pod as rail of pushrods (fig, ).
Attach the CFK piece to the end of tail tube, mark the position of holes for M3 aluminium nuts. Drill
the holes carefully and glue CFK piece, M3 nuts and tail tube together by 5 min epoxy (fig.). Glue
hinges into rudder (fig.). Screw the elevator to the place, use fiberglass underlayers. Attach rudder sca
10mm in front of elevator leading edge. Mark the position of rudder leading edge on the tail tube. Drill
two holes for 1.5mm CFK pins which are used as reinforcement of rudder (fig.). Glue the rudder
upright to elevator. Drill and sharp hole for rudder pushrod in place where the leading edge of rudder is
placed (fig.). Insert pushrods into fuselage pod. Attach wings to fuselage pod by crews. Find the right
position of tail tube, and carefully glue the tail tube to the fuselage pod. Get down wings. Insert servos
into fuselage pod. Glue the control horns into rudder and elevator. Connection is made by pushrods
with „ L-bend“ in the control horns and by clevises in servo horns. The „L-bend“ is possible to fix by
piece of heatshrink tube.
Servo mount into tail: cut the fiberglass part of tail parts (see marking). Glue servoframes inside. The
servo horn is connected with control surface by short pushrod. Cover the hole with self-adhesive
covering.
Wing:
Find the pre-drilled servo bays and cut-off the covering film with sca 3mm offset. Iron the overlaps into
servo bays (fig.). Remove the foam from servo bays, see the balsa reinforced by fiberglass (fig.).
Extend the servocables (solder them). Try the right position of servos in bays. Some types of servos
you have to wedge by balsa wood underlayers (fig.). Glue the underlayers and servoframes. The
servocover frame have to be sca 0.5mm deep under surface. Be careful to place servo under this frame
(fig.). Glue the servocover frame with drops of CA.
Glue the control horns into ailerons and flaps. Connection is made by clevis in control horn and „L-
bend“ in servo horns. Drill the 2mm holes in servo horns. Servocovers is possible to fix by screws
1.6mm or by power tape.
Canopy:
Drill the 1.8-2.0mm hole in the front of canopy and srew into the 2.2mm screw (fig.). Sharp the groove
in the fuselage in place where canopy screw would be placed. Make a hole for 3mm magnet in the
bottom of fuselage (fig.) and gle the magnet in. Mark the right position of magnet in the canopy, sharp
the groove and glue the magnet in.

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Recomended equipment:
-36mm diameter motors, 300-400W, weight 130-200g
-3s LiPo 1300 – 1800mAh
-50A ESC
-servo HS-81 (rudder, elevator) , MKS DS450 (mounting into tail)
servo DES-448MG , HS-125MG, HS-81 (ailerons)
servo DES-448MG, HS-125MG, HS-82MG (flaps)
Recomended settings:
- ailerons: +18 / -10 mm
- elevator: +- 15 mm
- rudder: 25 mm
- CG position: 115mm from leading edge
Many happy flights with Mandarin wishes to you
Reichard Modelsport
Reichard Modelsport, Grohova 52 , 60200 Brno, Czech Republic www.reichard.cz [email protected]
Imported by: Hobby Club
P. O. Box 6004
San Clemente, CA. 92674 – U.S.A.
www.hobbyclub.com

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Parts list of Mandarin :
Wings -1pc
Fuselage pod + tail tube + canopy - 1 + 1 + 1 pc
Rudder - 1 + 1 pc
Elevator - 1 pc
CFK elevator plate - 1 pc
M3 aluminum nut - 2 pc
Nylon screw M3 - 2 pc
Fiberglass underlayer M3 - 2 pc
Steel screw M4 x 20 - 2 pc
Steel screw M4 x 25 - 2 pc
CFK wingjoiner dia. 10mm + dia. 6mm - 1 + 1 pc
Bulkhead č. 1, 2, 3, 4 - á 1 pc
Motor mount bulkhead - 1 pc
Magnet - 2 pc
Screw 2,2mm - 1 pc
Pushrod - 2 pc
Control horns set (6 pc) - 1 pc
Pushrod 80mm - 4 pc
Clevis - 6 pc
Servocovers - 4 pc
Carbon pin 1.5mm - 2 pc
Rudder hinges - 2 pc
Servoframes - 4 pc
Balsa wood servo underlayer - 8 pc
Servo cover frame - 4 pc
Screws for servocover fixing - 16 pc
Decals - 1 pc
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