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Old 11-09-2012 | 02:03 AM
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Default RE: Hot gluing a wing servo ?


ORIGINAL: Hossfly

2lb. electric Yak, instructions call for 2 sided tape to hold the wing servos on
I would not trust that arrangement. One extra item that would make it - IMO - OK, is to use one or more of the small plastic ties ( readily available in $ stores in packages of a number of them in varied lengths ) wrapped around the servo through a small hole drilled through the wood/plastic base. Then if the tape gets loose, you have a good chance of discovering it before you pick up a broken flying machine.

I use a lot of those little ties and big ties to hold and/or secure various items in their place.

I'm not using tape, I've hot glued it in. There may be better tape as mine is not super sticky?
On my 2nd wing servo I super glued to small mounting blocks on each side of the servo. I didn't screw it in but still used hot glue. Figuring it would hold better with the blocks being there. Could pop a couple of screws into the servo holes. But the first attempt was only with hot glue and as pointed out, it may be a bugger to remove?

I,ve just never NOT used a mechanical fastener.

A plastic tie would work but a little to ugly... Would be last resort..

Thanks
Steve