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Old 05-01-2004 | 05:57 AM
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Default RE: Freestyle Rush

ORIGINAL: RH1N0

The instructions show the elevator servo mounted inside the fuse with a push rod connected to the left elevator half and a U wire between the two elevator halves. Problem is the push rod exit cutout shown in the instructions doesn't exist on the fuse. Instead there is a servo cutout to mount the elevator servo in the tail. I dont like the U wire idea as there is no redundancy if the master elevator half is damaged. This setup would be fine for a trainer but is not ideally suited to a 3D machine with large control surfaces and the risk of elevator flutter. So far, my options are to mount the elevator servo in the fuse and run a split push rod out to the elevator halves or to try and fit two elevator servo's in the tail. I would probably need to use mighty mini servos and stagger them one above the other but from opposite sides of the tail. This would require a little more surgery. What do the experts think?
Nothing wrong with a single elevator servo and a staple attatching the two halves on this size plane. This assumes that the servo is more than a normal standard servo and the staple is at least 3mm wire.