ORIGINAL: Pete1burn

Bent most of the control rods last night. I got everything in except for the nose wheel, cause I'm too chicken to do it. Everytime I would clamp the control surfaces like RCKen showed me, and mark off where the rod meets the servo horn with a small marker. Then I'd grab right before the mark with a pair of vice grips, and right after it with pliars and bend it down.

Each time I put the rod back in, the control surface was like 10 degrees off from center, even though the bend was perfectly at the place I marked. So I would have to work with the clevises to get the surface perfectly even at 0 trim.

Yeah, ain't that a bunch of fun?

They recommend attaching the antenna to the top of the vertical stab with a rubber band and a T-pin. Any tricks of the trade regarding that? Do I have to use a pin?

You may be able to find a way to just loop the rubberband on the vertical fin. the pin won't hurt anything though if you don't put much tension on the band.

Oh, and I keep reading about how the fuel tank shouldn't be more than like 1/4 inch under the sleeve on the carb, and the fuel shouldn't travel upward. My fuel tank opening is like a full inch maybe 1.5 inches below the engine sleeve, and the tubing HAS to go up and over because there's no other way to get it into the engine where it's supposed to. Problem?

This is an ideal condition. Obviously you won't reach this but thousands of these planes have flown great under these conditions. No worry.