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MOUNTING THE WING:
1.
Place the rear wing mount block into the fuselage, but do NOT glue it into place yet. Mark the top front of the wing mount block
with a pen so you can later glue it into place at the proper orientation.
2.
Place a bolt through the front bolt hole in the wing. Secure the bolt to the front fuselage mount. Do not over tighten the bolt.
3.
Roughly center the wing to the fuselage and secure into place with a light clamp on the trailing edge holding it to the fuselage.
4.
Measure the distance from the rear of the wing sheeting at the left wing tip to the rear of the CF fuselage boom. Repeat this for the
right wing. This distance should be the SAME. If it is not, then loosen the clamp holding the rear of the wing to the fuselage and
adjust it as necessary.
5.
Repeat step 4 until the distances are the SAME. Make sure the wing does not slip and use a 0.100” drill through the rear wing bolt
hole in the wing and drill into the rear fuselage wing mount. MAKE SURE you do NOT drill into the CF tail boom.
6.
Remove the wing from the fuselage. Remove the wing mount block from the fuselage.
7.
Using the hole you just drilled as a guide, drill a 0.125” hole through the block.
8.
Press the remaining blind nut into place from the bottom side and secure with thin CA, making sure not to get any glue on the
inside threads.
9.
Glue the wing mount into the fuselage, making sure your pen mark of the top front is on top in the front. Make sure you glue it in
VERY well as you did for the front wing mount block.
CONTROL WIRE INSTALLATION:
1.
There are a couple different things you can do for the pushrod housing. You can use a continuous piece going from the servo mount
area all the way to the tail, or you can use shorter lengths spaced apart with bare pushrod wire in between them. Using shorter
pieces will be lighter, but you need to be more careful, making sure you do not get any binding or glue the pushrod wires into the
housings.
2.
For a continuous length of tubing, insert the pushrod housing into the fuselage from the rear, through the holes in the formers up to
about the mid point of the servo section. You can trim this later. Use thin CA to secure the pushrod housings to the formers, but not
to F3. You will glue them to F3 after the servos are installed. Trim the pushrod housings at the rear so they end about 3/4” in front
of the control horns on the elevator and rudder. Use tape to hold the pushrod housings in place on the boom and you will trim and
secure them while installing the servos later on.
3.
For using shorter lengths of pushrod housing (lighter), cut 2 pieces of pushrod housing about 7-1/2” and 8 pieces about 2-1/4” long.
Insert the 2 longer pieces into the holes in the fuselage formers, leaving about 1” sticking out the rear of the fuselage. Use CA to
secure the housings to the formers, but do not glue them to F3.
SERVO INSTALLATION:
1.
Make sure the servo plate fits in the servo area of the fuselage. Trim/sand it if needed to fit properly against the fuselage floor.
(You can also install the servos without the plate by using a strong thin double sided tape or similar.
