January 2, 2008 - Trim and Rudder Bottom Tip

 After all the effort of wiring the trim system up, it was finally time to power it up and see if the thing worked.  I crimped D-Sub connector pins to the infamously thin servo wires and connected them to the five wires that run the length of the plane. 
 
I moved the hat-switch on the pilot's stick, and sure enough, the elevator trim servo moved!   The trim indicator, just to the left of the airspeed indicator, worked as well.  As I moved the trim up, the light cycled up, and vice versa.  Cool. 
 
I pondered the issue of the rudder bottom tip and the strobe/tail light wires for some time.  The goal is to be able to remove the rudder from the airframe without having to cut the wires.  There were a number of different solutions on the forums but in the end I decided to make the fiberglass tip removable by putting in nutplates.  There were three places on each side I couldn't install nutplates so I'll just pop-rivet them and drill them out if I have to. 
 
Here, I'm installing the nutplates. 
 
 
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