carf eurosport nose steering servo
#1
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carf eurosport nose steering servo
Hi, Just started building a carf Eurosport. I am using the electron gear set. The nose gear has the steering tiller sticking out of the fuselage. I am wondering how the servo needs to be installed to make this work. Attaching a pic for reference.
Note the ball link is sticking out of the fuse. Is this normal? Seems like I will need to attach a push rod to this and drive it with a servo installed sideways... quite odd.
Note the ball link is sticking out of the fuse. Is this normal? Seems like I will need to attach a push rod to this and drive it with a servo installed sideways... quite odd.
#5
Dremel out the fus to clear the tiller arm radius. The servo will side mount in the gap on the gear structure using a plywood plate. An M3 clevis works better than a ball link with a short cranked push rod.
#6
Hi
Here is what I did with mine.
I used a standard wood servo hub and glued it inside the fuse, while the servo arm is in direct line with the gear arm.
Moves perfectly, the strut and wheel are extracting just beside the servo arm and rod, with plenty of room.
No more wires for this setup...
Good luck,
Ziv
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#7
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Thanks for the pics Ziv. This is what I had thought of as well, just found it very unconventional and hence the questions here. I wonder what will happen if the wheel twists a bit while going up or down?
Thanks again.
Thanks again.
#10
The trailing leg acts like a wind vane and stays straight. I add some axle grease to the pin to stop it flopping about too loose. I still favour the pull pull cables, centring is the best, you just run a 100mm length of snake tube hysol’d to each side of the opening to stop the cable’s snagging. On the Ultimate we did we took more of the skin away in a half butterfly to clear the arms swing and mounted the unit further forward.
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Hi Neil, finally finishing up the Eurosport and discovered that using the servo plate configuration (with the different trunion) doesn’t swing the gear 100 degrees. Did you just shim the landing gear bracket to achieve this?
#20
Theses are the only two photos I can find.
I used a piece of carbon plate as a spacer to clear the servo bracket when retracting.
The trunion I used was the 100 degree one.
I used a piece of carbon plate as a spacer to clear the servo bracket when retracting.
The trunion I used was the 100 degree one.
#22
I ground the round piece from the top of the trunion, which was originally intended for the pull pull setup, and then cut a thread into the top to secure the servo plate.