If you ask me, they are cheap enough to just use only once.  What's the gamble?  Use twice and chance a critical control surface becomming uncontrollable?  </p>

I have a small box full of the darned things.  I just grab one and use it.  If I have to take the thing apart, I throw the first one away and use a new one.  Cheap insurance.</p>

I used Z bends for a very short time but found that the Z bend was not perpendicular and, to my observation, may cause a bit of a bind in the linkage to the control.  For the most part, they went on the servo arm.  A possibility is that they wear into the servo arm hole, enlarging it a bit, which causes slop.  Not detremental, but it could create poor resolution at best, and flutter at worst.  </p>

Again, this is just my opinion and my justification to not use them or to use something different, like a 90 bend with the EZ link connectors I mentioned in my prevoius post.</p>

CGr.</p>

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