Successfully Repairing Internal Servos

Happy late 4th of July everybody! I built a versa wing special for the ocasion. And the tape work came out pretty nice, if i do say so myself.

I personly like the red white and blue on white rather then against black. Looks cleaner. Good thing we'll be seeing the bottom from the ground anyway!

Look at the face the battery hole and the spar holes make. HA!^^

But oh no! we crashed on maiden and broke our left servo! How will we fix this without destroying our pretty new plane?? Very carefuly.

First, what you want to do is mark the general location of the servo. In order to remove the servo, we need to cut the foam right? Well, to put it back, the foam needs something to hold to. So in this picture, we see the servo marked out, a solid cut line, and a dotted line. The dotted line is where we are going to instal a wooden plate to glue our new hatch to. 

For this, I cut a rectangle out using some birtch plywood I had laying around. Mark out the size now.

Pull your control rod off so its not in the way.

Cut out your hatch, but remeber to only cut 3 sides!

Pop that baby open, and take care to make sure that the crease doesnt tear when you bend the foam.

At this point, unplug your servo from your reciver.

Added bounus tip! Attach your longest servo extender to the end of your servo wire before you pull the servo out. This way, when you install the new servo, you dont have to fish the wire through, just plug it in to the extender, and pull the extender back through. Its ingenious! 

Now, pull the servo extender so that you can see the plug, just so it doesnt come unpluged when you dont know it.

Grab a knife and cut that broken servo outa there!

After you pull it out, make sure to mark it with an X so that you dont accedently use it in another plane!

Then, toss it in your junk box so you can put a new gear set in them when you get your next HK order! (The gear replacements are only a dolar, and if your ordering from international, order the TG9 gear sets. They're exactly the same, but almost half the cost at $0.59!)

Now, grab that saw and cut that plywood!

Set it up next to your red white and blue stripes to make sure its 'murican enough to go on your plane. I think this will do.

Test fit it, to make sure it will go in without fuss. Mine did. Fit perfectly. Didnt get a picture with glue on it. Didnt have enough hands. : P Glue that badboy in, but make sure it wont get in the way of your new servo!

Grab that new servo, and center it up. I've forgoten to center so many servos. So lets make sure you don't. CENTER YOUR SERVOS NOW FOLKS!

Use that servo extender we talked about earlyer to pull your wire back through the plane to your reciver.

Glue your new servo in. Make sure you check the placement on it before it drys! 

I like to add some glue around the edges for extra suppourt. Especially with a replacement like this. Then, once your happy with the placement of your servo, put a bunch of glue on your plywood, and around the hole to keep your hatch strong and closed.

After your all done with the glue, put more tape over that hole you made. Make it nice and strong. I know it looks junky up close like this. But you can barely tell that this plane had major surgery!

See? Good as new! (the nose is a bit rough...gotta work on my launching throws....any good tips?)

Don't forget to throw a battery on charge before you start, by the time you're done, you will be all ready to get right back in the air! 

Happy flying and thanks for reading. Can't Wait for Flite Fest! Hopefuly this versa will survive until then!

This is Sherman from South Jersey, signing off!