02-03-08 Purchased used
Recently I've been looking at planes in the 1.2ci range. I spoke to a friend in Southern California and he was getting rid of his CAP232 with a Saito 180. He made me a great deal, so I bought it from him.

02-24-08 Servo swap
Since I had a handful of Futaba 9202 servos that weren't being used, I figured I'd use them in the CAP232. I needed to re-wire the receiver for the new Futaba standard wiring scheme anyways. I got all of the servos physically swapped, but I still have to reverse the direction on some and set limits on them all. I also still have to investigate the on-board glow driver and what is prepared for the smoke system.

03-16-08 More investigation
I have been wondering how the on-board glow driver works, so I chose today to investigate.  I wasn't too surprised that the battery was dead.  While I had the plane down, I also took the prop, spinner and cowl off.  I needed to fine tune the throttle linkage as well.  After that was done I took at look at the elevator servos.  The linkage for those control surfaces runs at an angle to the fuse.  The problem is that the servo horns were perpendicular to the fuse (and servo), but not the linkage.  When deflecting the elevator up or down, this creates an unequal throw on each side and can produce a roll effect on elevator.  I shortened the linkages and installed the servo horns perpendicular.  I reassembled the cowl, spinner and prop, then put the plane in the garage to charge the receiver battery and the on-board glow driver.

03-26-08 Changed receiver, still no glow driver
I swapped out the Futaba 8-channel FM receiver for a Futaba 8-channel PCM receiver.  I couldn't get the glow driver to function, but I've since learned that more hardware is required to get this particular glow driver to function on a PCM receiver.  I'll try it with an FM receiver to verify.

04-03-08 Ditched the glow driver
The on-board glow driver uses a battery shrink wrapped with the electronic circuit board.  I tried charging the battery, but I can't get any activity from it.  For now I've replaced it with an everyday glow extension.

04-04-08 Fired up the Saito 180
I started the engine today.  Sounds healthy.  I thought I had a throttle cut switch configured, but as it turns out I didn't.  I let the engine idle for a bit while I programmed the switch on my transmitter.  Right when I was going to test it, the motor shut down.  I think it loaded up (a bit rich).  I started it back up and tested the throttle cut switch and it functioned perfectly.

04-16-09 Update
I did fly this plane once last summer.  It's tough to find a field suitable.  There's a club starting up near my work and I've joined.  Once the field is built, I should get more flight time with this one.

04-27-10 Tail wheel and receiver switch on order
I was ordering a tailwheel for the Piper Cub and saw they have 3 sizes. I ordered the small one for the Dazzler, the medium one for the Piper Cub and the large one for the CAP232. I also ordered a power switch for the receiver. I've been using a 1/8" phone jack, but I've heard that is not a reliable solution.

04-30-10 Order arrived from Tower Hobbies
Hopefully I'll get some time this weekend to install the parts.

05-01-10 Installed the power switch
I installed the power switch today.  I also looked into the tail wheel, but I'm not convinced I'm going to use it.  It doesn't line up with the rudder very well.  It requires added some ply to the inside of the fuse for the blind nuts, then re-monocoating.  I'm probably going to keep using the stock tail wheel for a while and see if the rudder takes any damage.