Gabe Baltaian writes: >If any of you reading this don't know what CS tubing is, well... it's only the best, lightest, clearest and just basically Clearly >Superior Heat-Shrink Tubing available. > >You can see more about it at: >http://nyblimp.com/cs.htm I got a sample of this stuff from Gabe at last year's Toledo show, and I can attest to his statement above. It's wonderful stuff, and I've found quite a few uses for it. My favorite is for mounting servos, particularly on small, weight-sensitive models. Just cut off the mounting lugs and "shrink-wrap" the servo in a piece of Gabe's tubing so that the edges of the shrunken tubing wrap around the corners of the servo case a little (so the servo can slip out of the tube). Now put four dots of slow cyano-acrylate on one face of the shrink-tube-covered servo, and just stick the servo in place in the model. C/A sticks very well to Gabe's tubing (which is not always the case with some other brands of tubing). If you need to get the servo out, just slice through the shrink tube acros the middle of the exposed face, spread the tubing open and pull out the servo. If you did a clean job of this and the loads on the servo aren't too high (such as on an HLG or one of our "Roadkill Series" profile indoor/backyard models), you can reinstall the servo by slipping it back into the split shrink tube mount and then taping the spilt closed with a small piece of Scotch tape. For something with more load on it, just peel the remains of the split shrink tubing out of the model, and reinstall the servo using a fresh piece of tubing. The servos in my Spectre 2-meter are installed this way (including the flap servos, and the tape has performed very well. I also use it on my "Roadkill" prototypes for installing receivers, ESC's and batteries. I used to wrap my servos in paper tape and then C/A them in, and had major problems with the tape delaminating, releasing the servo. Since I started using heat shrink tubing, I have yet to have one come loose except when I wanted it to! Don Stackhouse @ DJ Aerotech [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.djaerotech.com/ RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
