RE: Yellow P-38 build thread
steering servo.
pic 1:
original center nose front former with two pre-drilled holes to hold the steering servo.
Bolts will go into this and hold the steering servo tray with blind nuts.
Without the hatch that I previously cut out, this operation has to be extremely difficult to do!
pic 2:
Drilled out a large hole for the steering servo connecting rod.
pic 3:
Robart's steering mechanism on the nose gear.
pic 4:
Steering servo tray ply parts.
pic 5:
tray epoxied.
pic 6:
I used a one foot by 1/8" diameter drill bit to drill out an outline of the large hole for the connecting rod.
I then used a dremel grinding bit to clean it up.
pic 7:
Steering servo and tray temporarily mounted.
pic 8:
First main problem.
The main's wheels are hitting the bottom of the turbo charger.
The yellow's wheels are 5 1/4" diameter instead of 5".
I had a 5" wheel and it works OK.
I'm not switching wheels since I have yellow's brakes.
I found that Yellow's retracts are 1/2" longer struts than Robart's so Yellow's probably is far enough out to clean the TC.
Yellow's retracts must also go lower into the well because I moved Robar'ts back a 1/2" and now the doors won't close.
I have a 5" dubro wheel which I could cut the plastic rim out.
I need to get Yellow's tire off the rim: their P-40's wheels screw on.
I'll have to check if this is true for the P-38 wheels as I don't want to assume and screw up expensive wheels.
I'm hoping to put the dubro 5" tire on Yellow's rim.
Pic 9/10:
If that doesn't work, I'll have to trim the TC well and probably part of the TC at the back of the TC.