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Old 08-27-2008 | 10:04 AM
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ro347
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Default Flex Rod for Dual Elev??

Building a Venus 40. Would I be able to use The plastic Flex-rod pushrods in place of the regular metal pushrods? I fgure they will bind less within the push rod tubes through the slight bends. I will need to join the two rods in the servo area to run off of a single servo. Would this work? Its not too bad...but there is a little resistance in the pushrod tubes and would like to make sure I dont kill the servos from any strain in the air. Am I being overly cautious?


Has anyone relocated servos to the tail?. This is a great looking little plane...but could have been designed a little better in terms of servo placement for performace/linkage setup. Also in the stock config, they chose to use two linkages off of one servo on the elevator. If using only one servo, why not join the elevator and have it operate as a single unit?