I've been working on building an FT Seaduck. Everything's been good so far. I wasn't able to get my hands on a Power Pack C so I just bought the individual components I needed, however I forgot to get servo extensions. The local hobby store had more than a few of these at a semi-reasonable price so I picked up a pair.
I calibrated my servos. Elevator servo installed without much trouble. So, I went on the aileron servos. The right aileron servo had no problem so I moved onto the left. Glued and fit in all good. Just for kicks I went ahead and re-tested the servo connections with the servo centering tool. The right servo worked great, but the left wouldn't move unless i shook the connection from the center
Elevator and aileron servos were all taped by their connections to the extension cable but, I guess the connection on the left side just wasn't tight enough. The big problem though is that the servo is glued to the wing and it's impossible to get to the extensions connector without surgery on the wing or taking out the servo.
I used isopropyl alcohol on the wing. Sadly just going at it with a q-tip was only enough to get the top layer of glue off the servo, I had douse it to get the slot on the win and wiggle the servo free. Once it was free I simply reseated the connection between the servo and the extension cable and everything was testing just fine. So I'll re-connect more firming with tape next time.
I've had a similar ordeal with a servo that wouldn't stay in place on a sport wing for a Tiny Trainer. I fear that the wing may not be able to hold the servo in.
Has anyone gone through this before? I was thinking about just re-enforcing the entire area with tape but I'm wondering if there's something else I should do the strengthen the wing now that I've potentially weakened it with alcohol.
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I calibrated my servos. Elevator servo installed without much trouble. So, I went on the aileron servos. The right aileron servo had no problem so I moved onto the left. Glued and fit in all good. Just for kicks I went ahead and re-tested the servo connections with the servo centering tool. The right servo worked great, but the left wouldn't move unless i shook the connection from the center
Elevator and aileron servos were all taped by their connections to the extension cable but, I guess the connection on the left side just wasn't tight enough. The big problem though is that the servo is glued to the wing and it's impossible to get to the extensions connector without surgery on the wing or taking out the servo.
I used isopropyl alcohol on the wing. Sadly just going at it with a q-tip was only enough to get the top layer of glue off the servo, I had douse it to get the slot on the win and wiggle the servo free. Once it was free I simply reseated the connection between the servo and the extension cable and everything was testing just fine. So I'll re-connect more firming with tape next time.
I've had a similar ordeal with a servo that wouldn't stay in place on a sport wing for a Tiny Trainer. I fear that the wing may not be able to hold the servo in.
Has anyone gone through this before? I was thinking about just re-enforcing the entire area with tape but I'm wondering if there's something else I should do the strengthen the wing now that I've potentially weakened it with alcohol.
https://1drv.ms/i/s!AsCZkLJ8Wp9HqAhcRQCe6WlHaJv8
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