I am building my first plane. I picked a relatively simple electric park flyer. I am stumped on how to connect the control wires to the servos. Following the instructions, the servos are already mounted inside the fuselage. The control wires go in through the tail. How do you connect the wires to the servo arms? I cant bend the z in the wire until it is through the hole. This seems almost impossible to do inside the airplane. Am I missing something? The instructions give no information on how to do this.

I will concede there is a lot to the details of linkage that is confusing to the newcomer. Without knowing the details of your model, I think maybe the easiest way to put Z-bends in steel pushrods (I presume when you say "wire" you mean solid steel pushrod stock). Something I haven't seen before appears in the latest mailing from Tower Hobbies, the Great Planes Precision Z-bending tool (stock # TE3934), which has a little pin that you can insert into the servo arm hole you want your Z-bend to fit into. Set the pin in the hole of your choice, then squeeze the handles on the wire and Presto! your Z-bend is at precisely the right length to slip into the hole.

Now you have to unscrew the holding screw from the hub of the servo arm, lift the arm off the servo, jigger the Z-bend into the hole, then put the arm back on the servo and replace the screw.

If you are off by a small fraction of an inch, you should be able to screw your clevis at the tail end in or out to get zero deflection at neutral servo setting.

At $20 this is not a cheap tool, but it looks like a keeper that you might make use of for a long time. If not, I'll give you $10 for it when you're done with it.

Sence this is your first plane Take a look at the wire that you are to use is there a Z band at one end and the other isn't. If so just push the wire through the fuse at the tail feathers when you get the wire close to the servo it shoule be long that is good. Cause you see on most of these park flyers you put kind of a V bend in the wire then you put a Z bend at the end now if you have to adjust the lenth of the wire or to center the servo are you just increase the V bend or decrease the V bend in the wire. Thats how it is doe on the Pico stick, Tigermonth. Pico Cub. There is another way to do this also and that is to use a wheel collar that will let two pieces of this wire fit through then you would just soosen the wheel collar and move the wire to the lenth that you need. Most parkflyers dont have threaded clevises on them couse of the weight factor for the little planes. Hope this will help you and save you a little money That way you can go out and get yourself a good outdoor glow fuel plane and have a great summer.