servo linkage

[Sean RyanParticipant @seanryan40366]

Hi on fitting the rudder to my boat the tiller arm is too low for the servo arm to line up i cant lower the servo as it is on the bottom of the boat,i was thinking of turning the servo upside down which would make it level.Or can i bend the steel linkage rods to get them to line up that way.They are the proper ones with the thread on one end,or, will 2 bends cause them to flex on the bends as a load is put on them.Hope this makes sense.

          Sean

[Sean RyanParticipant @seanryan40366]

can you bend it

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

I`ve used very thin wire, in situations like this and they simply act as pulling wires

 

You could used strong thread if necessary!

 

Bob

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

What type of boat is it? I’m thinking that the load on the rudder of say a 36″ electric-powered warship isn’t going to equate to that of a D-Class OMRA racer.

I’ve used threaded 2mm dia steel rods for years and never had any obvious case of them bending under load, even with a couple of right-angle bends in them. Just keep the length of everything as short as possible to minimise the effect of any offset load and you should be OK.

Note that if you use two pushrods or thin wires to the tiller arm then the distance between the two holes on the servo disc into which you fit them must be exactly the same as that between the two corresponding attachment holes on the tiller. If they differ then the wires/rods will slacken or tighten up as the servo rotates.

Dave M

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