I'm not sure the flexability will be an issue. True the wire landing gear flexes a lot, but it is a different than a tortional flex. I saw some articles on the setup and some load testing. THey came up with a tortional twisting of something on th order of 0.015 degrees, for all practical purposes, zero. This was with the loads of 100mph on a large surface, The servo is really the weak link, not the rod.

They also stressed the need for a snug fit on the pocket. The bend in the rod is the limit of the angular travel of the surface. There is also reference to a mecanical advantage from the system, requiring less servo strength.

I think you would be somewhat in the same boat as the durand method in that it would be all but impossible to change the mecanical advantage to give more or less throw. It woud requre a different bend and a different approach angle.

The rods they sell are "hardened and tempered" I'v see reference to the rod ends silver soldered into steel tubing for weight reduction. There is a lot of test bed engineering to be done before I comit a 33% to useing them.


The Laser I have is a Laniar kit. There are four servos under the horzontial stab, two set up as a pull pull for the rudder, and one on each elevator half. A lot of weight aft.

Don