About the plastic servo tray that comes with the Futaba radio, is it necessary to have the brass eyelets with these trays or are just the rubber grommets enough? Sorry for the photo quality but I did not want to open the package yet.

Works best with the brass.

Tom

The eyelets work like spacers to keep you from pulling the screws too tight making the gromets ( vibration ) useless. The eyelets should be round side ( down ) against the tray. If you were using a wood tray , the round side down would keep it from pulling into the wood tray. ENJOY !!! RED

My two cents worth, the plastic servo trays requier you to build a tray to hold the plastic tray. You might as well build a 1/8" lite ply tray reinforced for the screws and and you will end up with less weight and an easier to mount setup.

Don

Yeah, I don't like those plastic trays either. It's so easy to glue in a couple of hardwood rails to screw the servos to. Any good hardware store will have a selection of square hardwood sticks to build these trays from. As campgems said, you have to build something to screw the plastic trays to. You might as well just build it so the servos screw directly to it. I keep a selection of square and round hardwood sticks on hand at all times, roughly from 3/16 to 7/16 or even 1/2 inch.

X3

Does this tray have the plastic lugs that the servo grommets push through instead of using the servo mounting screws? I believe the eylets will not let the plastic lugs fit through the servo mounting holes. I would think you would not use the eyelets. The way the tray is designed you use just the grommets and then take the plastic "V" and put it over the plastic lugs to clamp the servo in place using one screw on each side instead of two mounting screws.

The Futaba plastic does.

OK, you have a very old servo tray. They quit putting those out sometime in the 80's. No you don't need the eyelets with the tray with the plastic stubs sticking up. I also agree with most of the folks above, make your own mount for the servos. But if you use a newer plastic mount, use the eyelets as explained. ENJOY !!! RED

Also, maybe the plastic tray could be suspect due to UV radiation & cracking? The tray is old, afterall.

I recently through out a rather large box of those trays, have been accumulating for a lot of years.

I Don't even use plywood trays. Virtually every time I use cross fuselage sticks as servo bearers. The hard wood type are ok but mostly now I just use hard balsa sticks makes for a much neater job too.


John