Good morning. I have a Carl Goldberg EagleII that I am just starting to finish. According to the instructions, the back portion of the servo tray fits into some slots of a fusealage former, while the front portion is glued to a support rail, that is in turn glued to the sides of the fuselage. In effect, the entire servo tray is permanently glued in place.

My question is would this not be better to be just insert the back portion of the tray into the former, and then screw the front portion of the tray to the supprt rail. This would allow the entire tray to be easliy removed, yet be secure when screwed down?

Thanks

Robby in Canada

sure.... that would work too....


but in a plane like that, why would you need to remove it?

thats the thing with these planes... you can do just about anything you want.....

I agree with exeter_acres. You could do it that way, but why would you want to? Unless you need to remove the tray to access other parts of the plane later on it's usually better to make the servo tray as firmly secured as possible. This is just a good practice to get into as you progress to other planes later on.

Ken

If you do decide to screw the tray in place use something like this
http://rtlfasteners.com/RC/d.html
less chance of screwdriver slippage and nice retaining value. Use enough to make very secure without over doing it.

On the other hand, glue is good too.

Yeah, those are great screws. I bought two bags of the short ones and two bags of the long ones a couple years ago at the WRAM show. I am just about out of them. I seem to use them for just about everything. With the hex heads, they look nice as well as very functional.

As to the glue or screw method, well, using glue may (I am not quite sure of this but it makes sense to me) strengthen the area around the servo tray by providing that stiffness as a doubler may do.

DS.