can someone give me a procedure for the neutral settings of the serevos and then the correct way to set the neutral settiings of the control surfaces?

regards,
Bigron

Remove the screws securing the servo arm/wheels and pop the arms off the servo's shafts.

Now power up your transmitter then your receiver. The servos should all centre temselves, except of course, for your throttle servo which will go wherever you have the throttle set!

Make sure you have all the trims for your control surfaces centred.

Now put the servo arms back onto the servos with the arms at 90 degrees to the servo case. Don't put the screws back in yet.

Adjust the clevises at the control surface so that the ailerons/rudder/elevator is in the neutral position.

Double check everything and put the servo screws back in .

Fly and fine tune as necessary!

Everything David said is correct except this. The servo arms should be 90 degrees to the pushrod. That may or may not be 90 degrees to the case. If the arms are not 90 to the pushrod then you'll introduce differential control movement.

Bigron,

To keep your control surfaces zeroed out, use those clips they sell to keep potato chips fresh to span from the fixed surface to the control surface. They work great, don't cost much at all, won't mar the covering and keep everything straight.

Ed

Woodpile, great tip! I never would have thought of that!

Mike