Assembly Part-3

Installing the servos

Next up is putting the servo's in the fuselage.  Only install the servo's with glue, if you either know the neutral position already (you've already hooked up a battery and found the neutral position by first turning on the transmitter, then the battery/receiver with servos plugged in;  IE:  always turn on the TX first before plugging in the battery!). 

I went ahead and put the servos in the fuselage, as its easy to remove the screw later on and adjust them for center once the battery is in place and working with the receiver.  Be sure to use Hot Glue for this step.  Apply the hot glue to the screw hole areas on the servo.  You can add more glue to the general area around the servo later on if you feel there is not enough.  See Fig 7 for all the photos.

Fusing the Fuselage shells

Do a practice run of joining the two shells.  Make sure they fit closely, do any trimming if needed.

Take the aerial/receiver antenna sleeve and line it up in the recess at the bottom of the right hand fuselage.  Glue this one on as you did for the others before.

TIP:  **If you join them together and notice that the wing fastener screw plate or plate holes don't perfectly align with the foam holes, don't panic, you can still work the screw in later on

Once you are sure everything lines up.. Spray activator into the recessed holes in the left shell, then apply thick CA to the joints on the other shell and join.

TIP:  **You can either then immediately apply the CA, thickly, to the raised join surfaces on the other shell and join before waiting 2 minutes, giving you more time to align things, or simply don't use activator on the other surface, but if you don't you'll have to make sure the shells stay firmly together till the CA begins to cure!  Make sure the fuselage is a straight line too.

Fig 7:  Servos and the joined shells after gluing

Attaching the horn on the rudder

Now take the push rod connector and put it in the outer whole of the rudder horn and secure with the washer and nut. 

TIME SAVER:  **Make sure the connector can revolve smoothly, but doesn't wobble, if it doesn't revolve you will have servo groaning and push rod binding later on!

Orientation is very important here.  Look at Figure 8 for proper orientation.  The instructions say to add CA after you have the nut secure, but don't do this right now, because if you need to move the connector to a different whole to give you more throw later on, you wont be able to.  Wait until you have everything secured and trimmed out on the ground before adding the drop of CA

Screw the Grubcrew into the push rod connector with the supplied allen key.  Make sure this is tight. 

Apply activator to the horn recess on the rudder then apply the CA to the horn and place on the rudder with the holes at the leading edge facing the hinge pivot line as in Figure 8.

Figure 8:  Rudder/Aileron Horn assembly

Note:  I didn't include a photo of the elevator control horn, but it can be seen in the Assembly of the Tail Section Figure.  The same hole positioning is used for the other horn controls, just repeat the procedure noting the position (Aileron one should have the connector facing inward toward the fuselage, same for the control rod).

Time Saver:  Be sure to flex all control surface hinges until moving smoothly, if you don't do this enough, it will cause binding in the servo's later on.

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