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Old 10-28-2006, 08:07 PM
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Default RE: Purple Brushless Electric Ultimate BiPe

1) Find a piece of say 1/4" hardwood dowel, about 6" long. Next take a 1/16" drill bit and electric drill. Drill into end of dowel along the length of the dowel for about 1". Now remove the drill bit, insert the part that was in the drill into the dowel. CA it in the dowel. Now you have the most handy "hand drill" you could ever want to ream clevis', start holes for servo screws, you name it.

2) Stiffen the tail up on your Ultimate Bipe. Take a piece of hard music wire, say 1/16" and measure the span between the two elevators and then add a bit to each end (the measurement that is). Bend a 90 degree angle in one end, make it about 1/2" long, then the span distance between the elevators plus a bit and then another 90 degree bend the same direction as the first.

3) Use your newly made hand drill and drill holes into the leading edge of each elevator halve that will coincide with the length of the wire you just made. Drill the holes perpindicular to the leading edge of the elevator and parallel to the top/bottom surface of the elevator to a depth of the length of wire on your 90 degree bends.

4) Peel back the covering on the leading edge of the elevator where the wire will span across the two elevator halves, i.e. between the holes you drilled. Use the hand drill in a "scooping" motion across the leading edge of the elevator to make the recess for the wire. Once you've got that done CA glue the wire into place and you're done.