Burnt Offering
Veteran
Location: Winter Wonder Land, Wasilla Alaska
| OK Boys,
Heres my recipe for Ailerons on a SS. I have TONS of misc. parts laying around. I didn't spend ONE DIME to do this. I already had everything. There may be a way more scientific way to do this, but this works killer for me. Feel free to take this and improve. OK, here we go.
First, build the SS wing as per instructions. Then if you have some packing tape, if you don't go to any supply store and get some, I think its $3.00. This is what you will use to add the strength to your wing. Why packing tape you ask? Well, take a strip 3 ft long and pull on it with all your might and I dare say the governor of California himself couldn't pull it apart its so strong. Also, its LIGHT as in no weight. If you look at the picture of my wing you can see that I have a strip of this running the full width of the wing at the front and the back. Wait theres more! When you apply this tape its critical that you follow the next steps very carefully. I'll explain later. OK, moving right along. Take your wing, turn it bottom side up so you are looking at the bottom of the wing. Take a razor knife or xacto whatever just something very sharp and get ready to cut. Look at my wing. The vertical lip that runs the length of the wing from front to back has been notched out. Go ahead and take out several inches of this kinda using my picture as a guide. OK, once that is done we are to the most critical part of this sweet aileron install. Grab your packing tape. Start it at one end of the wing at the very front. THEN using your lap as a brace PUSH DOWN on the wing at the center so that your wing looks almost level. Why? because after your tape has been applied to the entire lentgh of the wing, your wing will spring back tightening against the tape. Repeat the above process applying a strip of tape to the very back of the wing. If all is done properly you should then be able to take your wing and flex it up simulating stress on the wing and it should be rock solid as in very little wing flex. My Wing is amazingly strong. This is important to get right as if there is to much flex it will move your ailrons with no stick input from your TX. OK so everyone understand that?
Now looking at the pictures you can see the rest is pretty much self explanitory. I simply took some ABS plastic and made platforms for my control horns, and epoxied them on. Same with my Servo platform. One footnote here. Forget using a micro servo for your ailerons. They simply don't have the torque or proper throw to puch your ailerons. I used a full size futaba s3151 servo and it works great. Now at this point I need to say, that I fly in some rediculous winds with this thing. I can see it bobbing around like a leaf in the wind and I can tell you gang, no matter what, wether on take off, landing or just flying around I have NO WING FLEX... NONE! Use your best judgment but whe you get done you will know if its right just by flexing your wing up by hand. It will be MUCH stronger than the wing without the tape. Good luck!
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