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Install the motor with the supplied
screws. Check all your
connections. Check the motor for
correct direction. If necessary
switch any two wires on the motor
connection to reverse direction.
Make sure you put the prop on with
the airfoil facing forward.
Glue in your servos with hot glue. Bend a Z bend in one end of each 5 ½” inch
piece. Bend a L bend in one end of each 3 ½” piece. With the radio on and
operating, set the servo arm at 90°. Use a small piece of tape to hold the aileron
surfaces at neutral. Reflex the canard elevator down about 3/32” and hold with tape.
Put the Z bend end in each servo arm. Slide on a piece of the heat shrink tubing.
Slide the L bend piece into the tubing and insert it into the control horn.
I slip a piece of doubled aluminum foil under the control rod here to protect the
foamboard from heat and shrink the tubing with a heat gun. Be careful not to get the
foam too hot! Alternatively, you can carefully mark the two rods and remove them to
shrink the tube. Once everything is set where you want it, and the tubing shrunk
tight, wick a small amount of thin CA into the tube to “lock” the rods in place. Note
how the straight end is underneath the L bend protruding from the control horn and
captures it there. This setup is easy to maintain. To remove the rod, just lift the
straight end out around the control horn and pull out the L bend.
Heat shrink tubing
3 ½” Wire with L bend
5 ½” Wire with Z bend
Wick in thin CA after
shrinking tube
Building the Control Rods
*Not to Scale
Lay out your electronics on the bench and determine if you need servo extensions,
longer motor leads, etc. Get everything set up so it will fit where necessary in the
airframe. The receiver is attached to its velcro square. Fish all wiring through the
fuselage. The motor wires exit through the small oval cooling slot below the mount.
Build the control rods per the following
instructions. This type of control rod is
easily removed without tools.
Control
horn end
Servo
arm end