Empennage · 09. April 2021

Disliked the garmin servo mount bracket for the yaw damper. It needs to be riveted onto a bulkhead, getting these rivets in was hard enough to begin with, so no way we are messing with these again… my dad built a bracket to mount both servos. The new bracket has a lot of advantages: Stop brackets for the pitch servo are riveted onto the bracket, no messing with the teeny tiny screws Both servos mount to the same bracket, the whole bracket can be removed from the bellcrank assembly and taken...

Empennage · 23. May 2020

Used Van’s stock static ports, the pop rivet! Ingenious, easy and cheap. Cleaned some primer off in order to pour some 3M 2216 around the connection to prevent leakage and secure the rivet and tube together

Empennage · 15. May 2020

More deburring, cleco, match drilling, disassemble, deburr holes, reassemble…