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21) Secure your receiver on the front of the plywood radio
tray with one of the plastic cinch straps provided. It’s best to
use a piece of foam rubber between the receiver and the ply-
wood. Also, don’t tighten the cinch strap too snug - just
enough to keep the receiver in place.
NOTE:
If you are not using BEC, but are instead using a sep-
arate receiver battery, you can mount your on/off switch in the
pre-cut hole in the fuselage side. You will need to open up the
covering where the hole is cut in the wood.
ELEVATOR & RUDDER PUSHROD INSTALLATION
For this section you will need:
(1) Fuselage
(2) Long Pushrod Wires with M2 Hex Nut
(2) Metal R/C Clevis
(2) Nylon Snap Keepers
(2) Small Pieces of Fuel Tubing
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22) Assemble and install the elevator pushrod.
a) First slide a small piece of Fuel Tubing onto the small
end of the Metal R/C Clevis. Next, screw the Hex Nut that is
on the Pushrod Wire all the way up to the end of the threads.
Then screw the metal clevis halfway onto the threads (same as
you did back in Step 4a on page 6).
b) Locate the pre-cut pushrod exit hole for the elevator on
the right side of the fuselage at the back of the plane. Slide the
pushrod into the exit hole and inside the pushrod sleeve built
into the fuselage. Slide it in until you can clip the clevis into the
middle hole of the control horn. Lock the elevator in neutral
position with tape or with two small balsa wood sticks held
together with small rubber bands.
c) Inside the fuselage, hold the pushrod wire over the ele-
vator servo output arm and mark the wire where it crosses
over the outer hole in the servo arm.
d) At the tail end, unlock the elevator from neutral position,
and then unclip the clevis from the control horn. Remove the
clevis and the hex nut completely off of the pushrod and set
them aside. Now pull the pushrod out of the fuselage from the
servo end. It will be easier to complete the next three steps
with the pushrod out of the airplane.
e) Cut off the pushrod wire 1/4" past the mark made at the
servo end in step c). Then put a sharp 90-degree bend in the
wire at the mark.
f) Remove the servo arm from the elevator servo. Drill out
the last hole in the servo arm with a 1/16" dia. drill so it will
accept the pushrod wire. Then insert the bent end of the
pushrod wire into the servo arm, from the top.
g) Clip a Nylon Snap Keeper in place to hold the pushrod
wire in the servo arm. Snap the free end of the keeper up and
over the protruding end of the pushrod wire, underneath the
servo arm.
h) Now slide the pushrod back inside the pushrod sleeve
in the fuselage, from the front. When it is in far enough, put the
servo arm back in place on the servo.
i) Make sure that the elevator servo is in neutral position
and then adjust the metal clevis at the tail end as needed to
get the elevator in perfect neutral position.
j) After the elevator is properly adjusted, insure that the
metal clevis can’t open up and come loose from the control
horn by sliding the small piece of fuel tubing over the arms of
the clevis. Also tighten the M2 Hex Nut up against the back of
the clevis.
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23) Locate the pre-cut pushrod exit hole for the rudder on
the left side of the fuselage at the back of the plane and repeat
step (22) in its entirety to install the rudder pushrod.
ELECTRIC MOTOR & ESC INSTALLATION
For this section you will need:
(1) Fuselage
(1) Plastic Canopy cover
(1) Wooden canopy hatch frame
(1) Balsa Triangle Stock
(4) M4 x 16mm Socket-Head Bolts
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