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<DIV>In a message dated 8/26/2006 9:12:33 PM Central Daylight Time, jpavlick@idseng.com writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>I'm helping someone put their Venus 2 together. I'm installing the control<BR>linkages now. Got the elevator done (dual pushrods / servo on its side) and<BR>it's working great. I'm wondering if it's worth the effort to install pull -<BR>pull for the rudder. Has anyone done this? The only hard points I see are at<BR>the bottom of the rudder and that's in the same area as the elevator<BR>linkage. I guess I could make it work but if the stock pushrod works Ok,<BR>maybe it's not worth my time. Also - we're using an OS120Ax with a muffler.<BR>The servos are in the radio compartment (not the tail section). Am I going<BR>to have problems getting the plane to balance? Should I think about putting<BR>the rudder servo in the tail section? I want to avoid running long servo<BR>leads. TIA<BR><BR>John Pavlick<BR>http://www.idseng.com</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV>John,</DIV>
<DIV>You will likely find the airplane nose heavy. For a review, I had to use an OS .61 (!), and even with it, the plane was nose heavy with the rudder servo in the tail, and the elevator servo in the servo compartment. I had to add almost 2 oz of weight to the tail.</DIV>
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<DIV>When I put in an OS 1.20, I will put in 3421s in the tail for the elevators. I've never had a problem with long leads, just be sure to use the HD ones.</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 PTSIZE="10">Jon Lowe<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>