{"id":1521,"date":"2013-11-27T22:02:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T04:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2013-12-23T13:08:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T19:08:54","slug":"13-99-autopilot-roll-servo-mounting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/27\/13-99-autopilot-roll-servo-mounting\/","title":{"rendered":"13.9.2 Autopilot Roll Servo Mounting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068\" data-series-id=\"37\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 16 of 67 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/13-electrical-instrumentation\/\">13 - Electrical \/ Instruments<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>I have decided to mount the autopilot roll servo between the whale tail and the landing gear bulkhead on the pilot side.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2013-11-27-IMG_20131127_174803_222.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1523\" alt=\"2013-11-27 IMG_20131127_174803_222\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2013-11-27-IMG_20131127_174803_222-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I could have made some hardpoints out of 1\/4&#8243; aluminum but then the plane of rotation for the servo would not have been the same as the aileron bellcrank. So I used some 1\/2&#8243; aluminum for the forward hardpoints.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2013-11-27-IMG_20131127_162704_753.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1524\" alt=\"2013-11-27 IMG_20131127_162704_753\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2013-11-27-IMG_20131127_162704_753-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once I had tweaked the alignment, I mixed up some structural adhesive with some flox &amp; cabo then bedded the hardpoints.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2013-11-27-IMG_20131127_180128_769a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1522\" alt=\"2013-11-27 IMG_20131127_180128_769a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2013-11-27-IMG_20131127_180128_769a-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once it cures, I&#8217;ll cover it with 2x BID and that will be one more thing done.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"37\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 16 of 67 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/13-electrical-instrumentation\/\">13 - Electrical \/ Instruments<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>I have decided to mount the autopilot roll servo between the whale tail and the landing gear bulkhead on the pilot side. I could have made some hardpoints out of 1\/4&#8243; aluminum but then the plane of rotation for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/27\/13-99-autopilot-roll-servo-mounting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"series":[37],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45","series-13-electrical-instrumentation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1591,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}