Install The Horizontal Stabilizer; Install The Tail Servos & Linkages - GREAT PLANES helicat Instruction Manual

❏
4. Overlap the pushrod ends and join them with the heat-
shrink tubing. Position the ailerons in the neutral position. Use
tape to hold them in place. Carefully use a soldering iron to
shrink the tubing around the pushrods. Keep the iron away from
the foam and move it quickly back and forth across the heat-
shrink tubing until the pushrods are joined together tightly. We
do not suggest using a heat gun or micro torch to shrink
the tubing as this will melt the foam that is close to the
pushrods. If necessary, adjust the ailerons so that they are in
the neutral position. When satisfied, apply a couple drops of CA
glue to each end of the heat-shrink tubing.

Install the Horizontal Stabilizer

❏
1. Roughen a 1/8" [3mm] strip down the center of the top
and bottom of the horizontal stabilizer. Use alcohol to dull the
paint at the area to be glued. Do the same to the area around
the horizontal stabilizer slot in the fuse.
❏
2. Slide stabilizer the into the slot at the TE. Center the
stabilizer left and right in the fuse. Make sure that the stabilizer
is square to the fuse by measuring the distance between the
wing tips and stabilizer tips and setting them equal to each
other as shown in the photo. Before gluing, stand back several
feet and view the model from behind. The stabilizer should be
parallel to the wing. If not, you will need to hold the stabilizer in
the correct position as you glue it to the fuse.
❏
3. When satisfied, run a bead of thick foam safe CA glue
along the top and bottom of the stabilizer where it meets the
fuse on both sides.
Install the Tail Servos & Linkages
❏
1. Glue the rudder and elevator servos into the cutout in the
fuse with the output splines both facing the front of the plane.
The servo in the bottom of the slot is the elevator servo and
should be installed with the splines on the right side of the
fuse. The servo in the top of the slot is the rudder servo and
should be installed with the splines on the left side of the fuse.
Both servo leads should exit out of the right side. There is a
small half-circle cutout in the fuse to wrap the servo leads to
the underside of the horizontal fuse section.
8