bow plane retracts

[fhouldson]

hooked up all my linkage everything worked except for my retrat. Will not rotate enough to raise or lower the retracts. Not enough room to put a longer servo arm on. This is on my gato. any ideas?
Frank

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

hooked up all my linkage everything worked except for my retrat. Will not rotate enough to raise or lower the retracts. Not enough room to put a longer servo arm on. This is on my gato. any ideas?
Frank

Do they deploy/retract fully with the upper hull off the lower hull?

[fhouldson]

No .They go 1/4 retract. That's all. Linkage won't travel far enough to make full retract. Upper hull is off

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

No .They go 1/4 retract. That's all. Linkage won't travel far enough to make full retract. Upper hull is off

Please post pictures of what you got -- something is terribly amise here.

[fhouldson]

Hope these show up alright.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

OK.

Cut away the aluminum tray under the retract servo. Drop the retract servo till the output arm (bell-crank) is at the cylinders maximum diameter. Install a longer bell-crank arm. Send me money. Sing my praises! Register me as a religion!

[fhouldson]

I will go out and do what you said. Will let you know how it turns out. Thank you.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

You'll get there. More than one way to skin this cat.

[fhouldson]

That fixed the problem. I'm happy til the next fix. Going to test wtc in water wedsday, hopfull there will be no leaks. Again thank you for your help

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

That fixed the problem. I'm happy til the next fix. Going to test wtc in water wedsday, hopfull there will be no leaks. Again thank you for your help

My pleasure, sir.

For the in-water test, pull the tire-valve core, put a flexible hose to its body so you can blow air into the SD. Hold a hand at each end so you don't pop a bulkhead off the cylinder, blow into the hose and dunk the SD into the drink. You're looking for bubbles!

Keep us informed.

David

[fhouldson]

All's good in Lone Grove, OK. Did my wtc in water test today and no bubbles. That's a good thing. Happy camper.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Good. Now something horrible will happen. Brace yourself. And don't forget to put that valve core back into the tire-valve body!

[trout]

Congratulations! Excellent hurdle to be over....now on to fun things like trim!

[fhouldson]

going to start putting foam in sunday. What's the best adhesive to use to bond foam to hull.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

any air-dry silicon based RTV adhesive/gasket-maker