So DP, there I was with both aileron servo gearsets blown out in my SPACEPRO after a zoom launch. Very entertaining recovery without ailerons. Servos were glued in and came out with mucho effort. Repaired servos and glued them back in and on the very next zoom launch both aileron servo gearsets vaporized again. Discovered that JR 341 servos would accept JR 368 gears and I made the spruce mounts and solved that problem. Guess my zooms were too aggressive.
Must be somthing in the water here in Michigan. And Darwin, you might be on to something about the caffene. Regards, Dave Corven. -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Daryl Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <<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
