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daveb
12-30-2007, 05:40 AM
I'm puzzled as to fixing servos into my new TREX 450 SE V2.
In the Finless videos reference is made to screws and plastic tabs - but I'm sure I didn't get any with my Hitec servos. So at the risk of asking even more silly questions: where do I get these fixings from? Should I be using metal cap head screws and nuts, what happens if the frame holes are too small,.... etc until stress. Even the Align instructions refer to servo nuts but my LHS guy looked blank and pointed to the brass screws and nuts..... Sigh.

jeffp
12-30-2007, 05:56 AM
The plastic tabs should be in one of the bags in the V2 kit.

daveb
12-30-2007, 06:13 AM
......my helicopter history is a little curious - I spent quite some time with a ESKY Honeybee CP2 and was forever 'fighting' with the curious build quality. Then I bought, on an impulse, a Comet 500 which had very little technical support, no bits at all to fix servos into the frame, etc. Now I bought a TREX 450 SE V2 despite my LHS recommendations so I can spend a few months in my workshop building it (I have an active 5 year old son which means I get about 20 mins 'me' time every day). So it seems I've managed to buy a quality kit that includes the illusive servo nuts - thanks for your reply!

Pinecone
12-30-2007, 09:37 AM
The look like the parts on the right side:

http://www.readyheli.com/HS1232_Anti_Rotation_Bracket_Spacer_p/hs1232.htm

And you use a Philips self tapping screw to mount the servos. It is pretty small and threads into the plastic "nuts"