ORIGINAL: petera38
ORIGINAL: iiievolution
Hello
Another word of caution. On my elevator the plywood/harwood base that is installed for extra support for the elevator horn was offset to one side. So if I was to use the supplied elevator horn method of 3mm screw, the 3mm screw would have been only in the balsa section and not in the hardwood section, giving much less stiffness to the setup and I did not want to fix the 3mm screw at an offset angle. Instead I used a graupner GFK horn that was installed in the harwood section together with ball linkages, which brings the pushrod in line with the servo.
Once again, this might be an isolated case.
P.S. I did install the servo covers correctly, as they are "handed".
Paul
Hi Paul,
I had the same problem and mailed Alan Cardash to get another servo tray wwith the opening pointing to the opposite side. Alan told me that on the first batch they had this problem, but if I used the servo tray from the flap the error was corrected. Then, of course - I had to move the screw horn for the flap a bit to the other side to have the pusrod in line with the servo. This was possible because the plywood support in the flap was large enough. The extra hole was fixed with a patch of Oracover.
Pete
Yes I thought about ordering one but it would take too long to arrive. I installed the covers as indicated in the manual for all control surfaces. Yes If I had a cover facing the other direction I wouldnt have had a problem. I decided anyway that the GFK horn would be much stronger for the elevator given that it is not backed up with another servo or split elevators.
Paul