No “bashing” to speak of yet. In fact all I have done so far is mess with the ailerons. Still working without any glue on the hinges. I’ll be pulling the ailerons back off later when I start working on the covering.

One of the methods I use to hold the ailerons “near center” is to use a small clamp and some popsicle sticks.



Using a square lined up with the hinge line, I marked where the center of the control horn needed to be. Used the “pine vise” to drill the holes for the control horn. The screws that came with this plane for the control horns have really small heads on them and did not come with washers. So, I dug into my stash for some 2-56 flat washers to keep the screws from pulling through the control horn.



I marked, bent and cut the linkage to use the clip type keepers that came with the kit to attach the control rod to the ailerons. I used my bench vise to bend the wire. Which is very soft and easy to bend. But the inside corner still come out to round. and they did not fit my servo arm in a way for me to be confident.



So, I cut the bend off and put on some great planes solder clevises. I used a little of the paste flux to help flow the solder. This is the better way to go anyway.