Gary Manuel
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10 days sounds like a pretty bad one. Amazing how the human body heals though. Hopefully, you'll be back hand launching (and flying) before you know it
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Hi Kevin, It's part of the tail wheel assembly. It can also be used as a pull-pull rudder horn, so this is all you need if your cables are routed to the bottom. Mine are at the top so I need a separate one. Available from here - it's the largest of the three sizes: **LINK**
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I seem to have done a lot of work since the last post with not much to show for it. That can only mean one thing......I'm getting towards the finishing stages. Here's a picture of how I'm leaving it over-night. Tail feather leading edges shaped and glued to the fuselage. Hinge slots cut. Hinges epoxied into place and splints applied to hold everything in place - nothing worse than returning to find that the rudder has slid downwards by half an inch Edited By Gary Manuel on 14/04/2014 21:20:37 Edited By Gary Manuel on 14/04/2014 21:26:14
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Looking good Kevin
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Sign of a true Aeromodeller?
Gary Manuel replied to Former Member's topic in All Things Model Flying
Posted by john stones 1 on 14/04/2014 19:00:44: I get foot in my mouth disease Sometimes I think i'm cured , but it comes back I can vouch for that -
Now this is a bit of forward thinking. The bottom of the rudder butts up to the fuselage, which is quite wide. The bottom of the fuselage than slopes downwards away from the rudder. This will make fitting of the steerable tail wheel I have got impossible unless something is done. The tail wheel horn needs to be able to pass under the fuselage to allow full and unrestricted movement. The rudder therefor needs to extend below the bottom of the fuselage. A small extension of the rudder is added. This is the steerable tail wheel horn with the extended rudder shaped to accept it. And this is the horn trial fitted to the rudder.
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A hole is "ground" at as narrow an angle as possible with a Dremel and pointed bit. The angle is then narrowed further using a round needle file. A plastic tube (inner part of a snake) is then glued into the hole trying to align with the planned cable route. The tube is then ground / sanded flat so that it can be covered easily.
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This is what I have done today. Having placed the rudder servo in the cabin rather than on the top of the fuselage, I now need to work out where the pull-pull cables exit the fuselage. The cables need to be as straight as possible to allow the rudder to be pulled without acting as a cheese-wire cutting into the exit point. A straight edge is positioned between the servo position and the planned rudder horn position. A pencil line is drawn on the side of the fuselage along the top of the straight edge. The longitudinal position where the cables exit assumes that the wires will run parallel from the servo arms to the rudder horn. The servo arms act as a guide to work out where the cabled will exit. And "X" marks the spot.
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Not exactly live More like BBC rather than Dave What I meant was, I'll be posting as I continue and might ask questions in real time as I go.
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Agree with everything BEB said. Diamond - you still didn't say how bad your injury is. What's the damage?
