Help! Control Without Pushrods

[Crudnik]

Put my first real (mini scout) build back on the workbench and I realised that I don't have any rods to push my control surfaces. Suggestions for alternatives? Can I use string or wire if extend the horn through the surface and have two connection points?
Thanks.

 

[Merv]

I use the wire from utility marking flags. Get them from the big box store like Lowe’s, $10 or so for 100.

 

[JasonK]

if your servos/control horns are setup correctly you can do a pull/pull situation with fishing line.

 

[Piotrsko]

Worse case a rubber band return on a pull string set up. Just change bands every outing

 

[Hondo76251]

.020 or .032 welding wire also works well. Small spool for $10 is pretty much a lifetime supply.

 

[quorneng]

If you build light and use small servos mounted close to the control surface then the push rod can be really short. Just the wire from a paper clip will do.

The aileron link on my 40" (1015 mm) span Super Cub.

 

[Crudnik]

Thanks i'l try these ideas out

 

[Aireal Anarchist]

.020 or .032 welding wire also works well. Small spool for $10 is pretty much a lifetime supply.

DOH!
I ran out of music wire I had, so I bought more pushrods several weeks ago and had to wait on them holding up a build yet have a few spools of welding wire in the barn...didnt even think of it, thanks for that, I have a couple lifetime supplies of push rods now

 

[Hondo76251]

@Aireal Anarchist it's not quite as stiff as same size of music wire but close, and most importantly, cheap and abundant! Lol I love using the .023 on micro builds, it just fits most micro servos. If I have to run .023 very far i'll use a little coffee straw or poly tube as a guide (or go with .035 or .040)

And I'd you dont have a welder setting around your own shop, any exhaust shop in town would give you a couple feet for a handshake...