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Joined: 10/27/2003 From: Mohnton,
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With a 1.25 servo arm I set my hard point up at 1" offset from the centerline of the servo. This seems to gives a good balance from neutral to endpoints.
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Joined: 10/20/2004 From: Laurel,
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I concur. An 18 hole meeting is definitely in order to discuss such important issues. Hell, while we're at it we might as well make it a 19 hole event and get some real good ideas on the table!!
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Anyway, I will sleep on it.... Maybe Kurt and I need to conduct a 18 hole meeting and talk this out!
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Joined: 11/5/2004 From: Highland,
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I finally had time to do some wing prep.
First I made a template for the servo layout. I like working with templates to reduce the chance of error.
I needed to cut the servo wire holes so I broke out my Weller soldering gun and made cutter out of 14 ga. copper wire. I had seen pictures of this done and just copied it.
Laid out the servo wire channel (straight line) checked the plan to make sure servo wire would exit in a good spot and burned the holes. I used an aluminum angle as a straight edge and a depth guide.
Next I routed out the servo locations, glued in the servo mounts and put everything up to dry.
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ORIGINAL: kregan
I finally had time to do some wing prep.
First I made a template for the servo layout. I like working with templates to reduce the chance of error.
I needed to cut the servo wire holes so I broke out my Weller soldering gun and made cutter out of 14 ga. copper wire. I had seen pictures of this done and just copied it.
Laid out the servo wire channel (straight line) checked the plan to make sure servo wire would exit in a good spot and burned the holes. I used an aluminum angle as a straight edge and a depth guide.
Next I routed out the servo locations, glued in the servo mounts and put everything up to dry.
Keep up the good work! Looks really nice so far. Does Carden put the holes in the foam for the wing tube or do you have to do that?
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Joined: 11/5/2004 From: Highland,
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Mrbigg... The Carden wings do come with the wing tube hole already cut.
With the wing tube sockets glue in place that completes the wing prep and I am ready to sheet the first main wing.
I put together the sheeting for one wing tonight.
The wings are approx. 53" long. The wing sheeting is 48" long. The instructions have you glue all the extra 5" sheeting in a straight line out near the wing tips. I decided to deviate from the plan and cut 1.5" off every other strip of sheeting to create a staggered joint. This would hide any straight glue line that could possibly show up under the covering.
Wayne and Steve... I will take your advise and offset the hard points a little. They will be added later and I can adjust them at that time.
I hear from Dennis that Wayne's plane, built by Walt was at the Toledo show... I told Dennis that my goal was to try and achieve that level of quality! I hope I can come close! Kurt is even getting a balsa servo wire tube (maybe) !
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Joined: 11/1/2002 From: Laurel,
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Hey Kelly- looking great- sorry I didn't get over there. I saw that you had the servo bays marked out so I figured you were good. You are doing a great job.
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Joined: 11/5/2004 From: Highland,
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Sorry I could not make it out to fly today. Rachel had a great idea to take the kids to Centenial Park for a "trick or treat trail", to bad 15,000 other moms, with 2.5 kids each, had the same idea!
Back to progress.....
I have one wing sheeted and trimmed ready for LE and TE. The other wing is under weight. I also pulled out the next pair of wings for a picture in the buff.
Look at the wasted foam in the box, any ideas for that besides dumpster fill?
BTW, Any problem using urathane glue for the LE and TE instead of aliphatic resin (wood glue) that the instructions call for? My though is the urethane would force itself into the edge of the foam and balsa filling any small voids.
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