GREAT PLANES Rifle 1M, Instruction Manual

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17. Determine where you are going to mount your receiver
and test-fi t it into position—there may be room ahead of the
elevator servo, but the receiver will be out of the way if you
can mount it through the cooling hole behind the wing. Apply
strips of 1/8" [3.2mm] double-sided adhesive foam mounting
tape to the bottom of your receiver. Then mount the receiver
in the fuselage.
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18. Connect the elevator servo, ESC and two 3" – 6"
[75mm – 300mm] servo extensions for the aileron servos
to the receiver.
Tip: If your ESC has data logging (as does
the recommended Ice Lite 50), connect the ESC to the
receiver via. another 3" [75mm] servo extension. This way,
when downloading data, all you will have to do is disconnect
the ESC from the extension (rather than disconnecting the
ESC from the receiver) simplifying the procedure. Also, label
the two aileron extensions coming from the receiver with the
appropriate channel numbers for easier identifi cation when
connecting the ailerons later.
Make the Aileron Pushrods
There may be other ways to make Z-bends on the ends of
wires without using Z-bend pliers, but Z-bend pliers make
the shortest, sharpest, most accurate bends, so Z-bend
pliers are
strongly recommended.
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1. Cut one 3" [75mm] wire from the included 1.2mm
x 300mm pushrod wire. Use a fi ne-point felt-tip pen to
accurately mark two lines on the wire 1-7/8" [48mm] apart.
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2. Use your Z-bend pliers to make the fi rst Z-bend at one
of the marks.