Bill--My BOT has the yellow corrugated tube with cable inside. It has worked well for 5-6 years. On the nose---find someone who runs R/C cars and get a discarded knobby tire and cut a piece out of the center about 1/2-3/4 wide and 4-5 inches long and glue it to the bottom of the fuselage with goop. Works for me. Great sailplane!!! ---JimAt 01:31 PM 3/19/00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I'm building a Bird of Time, and have acouple of questions: > >For the rudder and elevator control rods the BoT uses .062" wire running in a plastic housing. I have a choice of three cable housings: > >1. The housing supplied by Dynaflite. A white, corrugated plastic. Noticably softer and more flexible that the other two. Presumably by Great Planes. > >2. Yellow Sullivan Nyrod. Corrugated. I think that Sullivan uses this with their flexible cable. > >3. Dubro. Translucent plastic. Not corrugated. > >Are these interchangable, or is any better than the other? This is the first time I've used solid wire for controls, and, with the BoT tail construction, the stabilator linkage will be sealed away. > >Nit-picking details... > >While I'm thinking of it-- my usual flying field is only moderately developed: bare spots, volunteer grass. Not a sod farm by any means. Landings can be rough on the bottom of the fuse-- I notice a lot of nicks, scrapes and gouges on the bottom of the GL after a year. I have put some clear plastic packing tape on the forward bottom section of the GL to keep the Monokote from getting shredded. On the BoT, I wonder if there is a way to "armor" that bottom forward section for a rough field. I'm thinking of laminating some 1/32 ply to the bottom to toughen it, say from the nose block to the towhook. And plan to use a McCann smooth skid ahead of the towhook so it won't land on the towhook. > >Thanks, > >--Bill > >RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
