Installing push rods
 

Reading a few threads, it seems many of you struggle with installing push rods, especially split ones (ie two outputs, usually for split elevator halves).

So here is my handy hint. (actually not mine, read in a magazine, tried it, it changed my life)

Use snake inners!!!!!!

1. install the servo as required in the fuz. fit all control horns. Ensure that the holes for the exit are open.

2. feed snake inner through the exit hole, down the fuz, and out by the servo, ensuring you leave a few inches at least sticking out the exit (this is the only fiddly part, as the snake may get caught up on a former. Wiggling and twisting usually frees things up)

3. feed second snake inner through the other exit hole.

4. attached the push rod to the snake ends at the servo end.

5. gently push the rod, and pull snakes out the exit holes.

and voila! push rod installed in less than 5 minutes. No swearing, no tearing hair out, no need to cut into the covering.

So easy I usually end up doing it two or three times to ensure that any bends are in the right place. If you do need to remove the push rod, re attach the snakes prior to removal, so they are ready and waiting for re installation when needed.

You can also use this method for installing closed loop (pull-pull) lines.

Hope this helps
Sprink ;)

Installing push rods
 

Sprink:

I've used your method for a long time.

I'll just add, for all who don't speak UK English, that a "Snake" is a flexible plastic push rod, "Goldenrod" or similar.

Bill.

Installing push rods
 

Thanks, never thought that they weren't called snakes everywhere.

Sprink

Installing push rods
 

Phew! That explains why I kept getting bitten and had to lie in hospital while the antidote serum was administered.

-DC

Installing push rods
 

David:

Hope you recover in time to fly tomorrow.

And Sprink, the same method also works very well for an ordinary pushrod with only one wire out the back. And for feeding pull-pull cables, but just one at a time here.

Bill.

Installing push rods
 

Thanks Bill,

I could always fly my 42% CAP around the ward.

-DC

Installing push rods
 

David:

Always try to cheer up the snakebitten.

Speaking of which, did you hear about the fisherman who ran out of bait, saw a moccassin about to swallow a frog? He grabbed the frog for bait, and then couldn't let go of the snake. To get the snake quiet he poured a couple drops of white lightning in the snake's mouth, the snake shook itself, and slithered away. Few minutes later the fisherman felt something nuzzling his ankle. He looked down, and there was that snake with another frog.

Haw.

Bill.