Empennage Attach Section 11 Complete
I finished the rest of the empennage attach work today. I have an issue that I will need to resolve in the future which is the servo throw is not as far as it should be outwards (the servo extending) and it pulls too much in (the servo retracting). I believe it is an issue with the bellcrank brackets that I created. They were off by about 1/16″ and I believe that’s throwing off the geometry. I checked the servo to see if I could change it’s internals but it does not have that capability. I’ll probably have to redo those brackets and be VERY exact on the hole drilling. The part I hate the most is that when you are drilling the tip doesn’t seem to be the center of the drill bit. I will punch a tiny mark to get the center of the hole I need to make and then put the very point of the drill bit on that mark but it always ends up off of that center. Still not sure what I’m doing wrong with it. Next time I make these brackets I’m going to have to start with a small hole and work my way up so that I can make sure that I can correct the hole location as I drill larger and larger.
Other than that the rest of this went fine! I might have to adjust the location of the cable sleeve jam nuts but that can be fine tuned later towards the end of the project.
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