First, I'd like to thank everyone for offering me their insight on doing this. While I can see where the steel wire is lighter I find it inconvenient to say the least. The crimp sleeves on my ARF at the rudder control horns appear to have already been crimped. The ones inside next to the servo weren't. Yesterday evening I finally set down to it and worked the slack out, centered the rudder and servo and once everything felt and looked good I attempted to crimp the sleeves.

The sleeves are semi-square and are not the same as the old steel leader crimp sleeves I used to fabricate my own leaders as a boy. First I tried using needle nose pliers and couldn't do anything but mess up my adjustment. In the end I pulled out a set of lineman pliers that I keep around because they are large and cut control rod off cleanly. One of the sleeves I could actually feel "give" and crimp. The other I couldn't but I applied all the force I could muster.

Once finished I activated the rudder a few times and some slack is now evident on one side more than the other. Will try the threaded adjustments this evening to see if I have enough play to true things up.

To be honest I'm not impressed favorably with the cables and have to wonder why I wouldn't just use some light (2mm) control rod instead of cable. Is this a no-no on pull-pull systems?

As always, thanks for the guidance,

Clay