0 Ladybird Repairs

 Here's the before picture.  The mainframe was cracked, and more importantly the motherboard wouldn't bind.

 Here's the unit with the motherboard removed.  The four screws come out pretty nicely.

 Here's the repaired frame.  It took a bit of jiggling to get the arms to seat properly.

 And all put back together!  It flies as nicely as it did before on my desktop testing.  I replaced my V1 board (which has an accelerometer) with a V2 board (which doesn't).  I'll see how well it flied in real life and see if I want to get a V1 replacement board.  They're more expensive because of the accelerometer.

Here's the wiring diagram for future use.

Detail: Ladybird Repairs

0 Easy Star Stabilizer Repair

 You can read the details (and see the video!) over at the Brainwagon, but the tl;dr is that the EZ* lost half the horizontal stabilizer in a crash.  I could tell MarkV felt pretty bad about it, but I told him it would be no problem to get things good as new.

I double-checked on the EZ* RCG thread, and Elapor (the proprietary foam mix that Multiplex uses is CA-safe, and CA is the recommended repair glue.

So, I used a couple of drops of cheapie Harbor Freight CA (10 tubes, $1.80 on sale) and a spritz of HobbyKing kicker and put the stab back to normal.  Total repair time: about 2.5 minutes, including taking the pics.  Don't tell MarkV, I don't even think he noticed a previous repair from where I busted off the vertical stab!

Detail: Easy Star Stabilizer Repair

0 Ladybird motor repaired!

Finally received my replacement motor.  I was going to take a few pics of the Ladybird disassembled, but was so concentrating on not loosing the screws I got distracted.  Anyways:  pop the body off and unscrew the leg with the bad motor.  Undo the power and swap the leg.  You might have to undo some of the other screws to route the wire.  The screws go through rubber standoffs -- don't let them fall out!

Detail: Ladybird motor repaired!