Hangar 9 ASW-20

[ARUP]

The conduit is a great idea! I've already got ball links on elevator for really smooth no slop action, too. As soon as Gary at Decal-it sends my new graphics I'll post a pic of my bird.

[gunny11]

I had to add a Shim under the stabilizer to align it with the wing bar. It was off slightly and not parallel.
Also I noticed my elevator servo wire was getting wrapped around the rudder cables. You would either have to secure both ends or one and slightly tight but I don't like to put pressure on the wires especially at the servo and so I wound up just gluing in a 2 foot piece of conduit tube to the bottom of the fuselage.

[gunny11]

Excellent arup! I was not happy with the binding of the elevator clevis to the elevator control horn. I had to use a little force to push the stabilizer into alignment to tighten the bolts and thus the clevis was twisting bending binding I did not like that set up it didn't work very nice. So what I did was use a 2-56 swivel ball-link for 4-40 rods and everything is working smoothly.

[ARUP]

I put a torsion spring on each door. The torsion spring has an L-bend each end secured w patch of glass. One end secured near end of door and other inside fwd fuse. I pre-loaded the spring before securing. The spring is 1/32 music wire of about 7" long.

[gunny11]

Bvm jets strut door attachments. You Really don't need it! a piece of hardwood would work just fine.

[Sinkhappens86]

I never use rubber bands for anything because they just don't last. Instead I use very lightweight Springs with BVM door anchors. This is for the retractable landing gear doors.

What are BVM door anchors and where did you acquire them?


Kevin Kremer

[BobR]

Kev,

I have learned alot from Stephane and others on this thread. Really good stuff.

Bob

[French1]

Kev,

welcome here and you are more than welcomed to ask any question on this bird

Stéphane

[French1]

Bob,
pm me your email for me to be able to send you the file, can't attache it here

Stéphane

[Swiss1]

Bob, if you need a DX9 we would gladly ship you one from The Model Box 2.0 or directly from Horizon Hobby or delivery to Winamac!

Jeremy and Ben
SCCAAA TT TN

[BobR]

Stephane,

When you get a chance please upload SPM file. I am certainly moving toward DX9. Loved the dolly launch.

Bob

[French1]

Bob,

I use my throttle stick for spoilers, right slider for flaps and left slider for throttle (much safer than the use of a switch)

Stéphane

[BobR]

Stephane,

Are you controlling Spoilers with (throttle stick) spoiler stick? I suppose you are using the trainer button as your throttle with a 1 second delay in spool up?

Bob

[gunny11]

I never use rubber bands for anything because they just don't last. Instead I use very lightweight Springs with BVM door anchors. This is for the retractable landing gear doors.

[Fpv1]

We're going down the powered route, with dolly launchers (also may be powered 😜)
Spectrum set up (Dx9 & Spektrum AR9110 dual battery) with telemetry, vario etc.
Hoping to do the multi camera setup and maybe some FPV too.