Steve -

Pulling out the cool tools.....the laser idea sure beats using a bowed piece of spruce as an alignment tool :-) I was busy modifying my plane rack system in the car last night so that I could take my new Passport to the field this weekend, but I will get back at the Visa in the coming days and try to figure this front mounted elevator servo thing out. I like your idea of how to locate where to put a fuse exit for the pushrods. I am trying to figure how to know where to put the holes in the support cross-pieces. I guess that I will just guess and do some trial and error until I get it right. It is probably much easier when you actually sit down to do it than when you try to think it through.

Maybe the best way is to stack a couple crossmembers and drill them together for the pushrod supports, then start shaving equal amounts off each end until the rods follow the line you want toward the exit hole?

Mike