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4.
Test fit the vertical stabilizer in its slot at the center of the horiz. stab. to make certain
the rear of the vertical stab aligns with the rear of the fuselage. Remove the Mylar cov-
ering from the vertical stabilizer that will be ‘buried’ inside the slot in the horizontal
stabilizer, and
secure the vertical stabilizer into its slot with 5-minute epoxy
.
5.
At each side of the fuselage’s tail, use the straight end of a rudder or elevator pushrod
to poke holes through the Mylar that is covering the
openings for the preinstalled
rudder and elevator’s pushrod tubes
.
6.
From inside the fuselage, insert the
rudder’s pushrod
(which is slightly longer
than the elevator’s pushrod, and exits at the right-rear side of the fuselage) until it
is about halfway into its preinstalled tube. Mount a servo arm on your rudder servo
and attach the Z-bent-end of the pushrod to your rudder servo.
Then, while continuing to slide the rudder’s pushrod into its tube, guide your rud-
der servo into position in the preinstalled servo tray inside the fuselage. Secure
your
rudder servo into the servo tray
with the servo mounting screws provided
with your servo.
7.
Repeat the above procedure for the
elevator’s pushrod and servo
.
8.
Test fit (and make mounting-holes for) the supplied
rudder and elevator con-
trol horns
in-line with their pushrods. Apply thick CA adhesive to secure the
control horns to the rudder and elevator.
9.
Slide a plastic pushrod ‘keeper’ onto the
elevator’s pushrod
. Center the
elevator’s servo, and apply masking tape to hold the elevator’s surface neu-
tral/centered. Using pliers, make a sharp 90-degree bend in the pushrod where
it needs to enter the elevator’s control horn. With the pushrod bent at the cor-
rect length, secure the elevator’s pushrod to the elevator control horn with the
plastic pushrod ‘keeper’ and cut off and discard the extra pushrod wire.
10.
Slide the
tail wheel
onto the
tail-wheel wire strut
and secure the tail wheel
with the provided wheel collar and set screw.
11.
Slide the tail wheel strut fully through the hole in the end
of the aluminum tail wheel mounting bracket. Test fit the
tail wheel’s wire strut at the trailing edge of the vertical
stabilizer and the fuselage, and secure the
tail-wheel as-
sembly
to the bottom of the fuselage with two provided
wood screws. (Use thin CA adhesive to reinforce these
two holes for their screws.)
12.
Test fit the free/‘top’ end of the tail wheel strut into the
predrilled hole in leading edge of the
rudder
. Apply a
small dab of 5-minute
epoxy to the end of the tail-
wheel-strut’s wire
and insert the wire into the hole
in the rudder. Before the epoxy thickens, use two(2)
CA
hinges
to attach the rudder to the vertical stabilizer and
apply thin CA adhesive to the CA hinges and use mask-
ing tape to hold the tail wheel strut’s wire in alignment
with the rudder until the 5-minute epoxy cures.
13.
Using pliers, attach one end of a
spring
to the loop on the
21-inch wire
(the wire which does not have a loop
on its other end), then secure the loop under the front screw in the tail wheel bracket as shown.
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