I recently posted a picture of a kit bashed Extreme 330. It flys great but my elevator broke where I had joined the two halves. I landed with no problem, but before I build a new elevator I was wondering if anyone has a better way to connect the two halves when you are using one servo mounted on the fuse. I used a piece of hardwood, but was was thinking of using a U shaped wire along with the hardwood the next time to join the elevators. A fellow club member used a carbon fiber arrow shaft with tabs cut into it to join his.

I was wondering if anyone has a better way to do it?

Hal
Mid Ms RC Club

I always join my halves with the 1/4 sq. hardwood then laminate the top and bottom with thin ply a little past the hardwood. No flex at all...........John

The OMP Edge is like this. It's really two elevator havles and they are joined with a U type wire.

I've always used a left over 4-40 rod. I bend it in a U-shape, then scuff it up with 80-grit sand paper. I install it using 30-minute epoxy, thinned with alchol and then I add milled fiberglass (Great Planes offers this) to give it strength. The thinned epoxy ensures great penetration in to the balsa around the wire, and the milled glass offers some additional re-enforcement. This technique works great and is light.
Hope that this helps!
Kevin

i use hard wood as as the leading edge and then connet them as one pice that i must insert as one piece before installing the stab