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Old 04-29-2008 | 11:28 AM
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Default RE: Servo Mounts - Custom.. HELP!!!!

Actually the plate with the servo came from my 4*60 that bit the dust on Saturday. I loved that plane. It was my second.

The other photos were from my Evolution (made up name) It started life as an Lanair Explor 40 trainer. I found that I was having aileron issues and my instructor kept telling me to ease up on the sticks. Turns out that there was no bearing tubes on the aileron torque rods so I cut the rods off and built my first set of servo boxes. Crashed the trainer destroying the fuselage but leaving the wings and tail intact. built a stick tail dragger out of the left overs and loved that plane. Lost it in the creek bed behind the field where it lay for over four months. I had a spare set of wings for the Explorer so I built another fuselage and awaay I went. One of the guys was trying to teach me inverted and I ended putting the plane at full throttle into the deer fence destroying the wing. From there I built a new wing with the same airfoil as the 4*60. That was a great flying plane until "the crash" which put my O.S. 52 four stroke into a pile of broken parts. The first photos with out servos are from that plane.

On a hard crash, sometimes you will snap off one of th lugs, but I've never had one come loose my it's self.

One thing that isn't obvious in the photos is that I sand a 45 around the lugs and then after gettting them epoxied but before it hardend I flow a bead of epoxy and fliet it around the base. It spreads the load further up on the lugs and further out on the plate.

Don