There are several types of servo savers. Some have spings on the rod to
relieve the stress of a flap down landing. Last ones I saw were 10 years
ago and I think Skip Schow had them on a plane. If not, he probably knows
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From: Michael Whitman
To: Robert P Buxton
Cc: soaring@airage.com
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: [RCSE] Aileron & Flap Carbon Fiber Pushrods
I haven't had first hand experience with carbon pushrods but I would guess
that you could also run the risk of stripping a servo with a stiffer
linkage if you failed to retract the flaps on landing again. It's cheaper
to replace or fix the pushrod instead of a wing servo.
Mike
On Apr 3, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Robert P Buxton wrote:
Open Question to the group: Has anyone had experience (good or bad) with
using carbon fiber push rods for their aileron & flap servo linkage. This
past season, due to slow thumb response at that critical moment of
retracting flaps just before touch down, I was bending the flap push rods
(bottom hinged, linkage on top of flap, servo arm on bottom of wing.
Carbon fiber rods would give stiffness/rigidity but would they be prone to
breakage? This set up was/and is on a F3J 144" Shadow. All comments and
suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Robert
Robert P Buxton
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