Daryl, To each their own, but my guess is that using the Greening Mounts or light ply mounts like the Volz servos come with can be done as light or lighter than gluing in with epoxy. I personally will take the extra time use a mount on any molded plane I do unless installing gear for someone else that asks me to glue them in. Gluing them in is a heck of alot easier and faster to do when installing gear. BTW, aren't you the guy that likes to fly around with ballast in most of time so you can get from Thermal to Thermal faster. They all will go up once you get to the lift.
See Ya, Pat McCleave Wichita, KS > > From: Daryl Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/03/01 Wed AM 10:43:31 EST > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Corey Groves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [email protected] > Subject: Re: [RCSE] Gluing Servos v.s. Servo Frames > > <<These frames weigh > next to nothing and can be glued into the wing with > medium or black CA. >> > > I think I'll just start taping a 1/2 ounce of lead to > every servo for absolutely no reason... ;-) I enjoyed > that thread of a few weeks ago where the engineer, > don't know his name, talked about getting all the > unnecessary weight out of his model. I'm pretty much > the same way, without getting nuts about it. > > I put my servos in with a mixture of 5 minute and > micro-balloons (Peanut butter thick mixture). I do not > prepare the servo by sanding it or cleaning so it will > stick to the epoxy mixture. They pop right out if need > be. And there is a little "pocket" remaining to drop > the next servo right in. Of course you can wrap the > servo in masking tape, saran wrap, or even put mold > release on it... In my Insanity, (a bagged wing POS), > I did have Dave Hauch put a false bottom of ply into > the servo hole, since the Airtronics new wing servos > have little mounting lugs... but even as many times as > I've slammed that thing into the ground, never had to > change a servo. So I won't mess with that in the next > one. > > I realize the "anal retentives" in the group need the > install to be pretty. After the servo covers go on... > who can see it? > > My main question remains... what are you guys doing to > destroy your servos? Instead of bullding all of this > unnecessary crap into your airplanes, why not learn to > NOT break the darn things??? > > Just thinkin' out loud... > > D > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and > "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and > unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. > Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in > text format > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
