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Old 03-22-2003 | 08:06 AM
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Default The long Ele sevo arm prob

I read a couple posts back that someone was having a prob with using long servo arms on the elevator. Here is a simple fix to that. Put your servo arm on (I am using the airwild 1.25") like in the picture. Make a control rod that you can put on just to measure with. then make sure it is at a 90 deg angle with the servo arm and take a white board marker and make a mark on the ele at the front and the back of the control rod. Then draw a straight line between the two marks. Then take your control horn (I am using the dubro heavy duty) and put the connecting hole over the hingeline. Then make a little mark where the end of the control horn. Draw a horiz line off of that. Then cut back the covering and make the center marks with a pencil. Go to home depot or lowes or whatever home store is near you and get a 5/8th hard wood dowl. cut a little piece off and make an x in the center. Use these to line up with the lines drawn earlier. Set the scrap piece on the elevator and draw the circle around it. Then cut out the circle with an exacto knife (wood is real soft). Then cut 2 pieces of your dowl to fill in the holes you just cut. Mix some good ole 5 min epoxy, put it inside the ele and on the dowl then just shove it in. Wipe excess epoxy with alchohol. sand it smooth with the rest of the contour of the ele, drill a hole, and install the control horn.

I hope this isn't too confusing...
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