Well nothing that Earth shattering to report this weekend. Like most I have been messing around with stupid xmas decorations and fighting through crowds in shops. Would much rather been assembling the sub !
All I have done is mount the 3 servos. There is no specific guidlines about mounting them, just the positions. Thats only so the connecting rods can reach. But easy enough to modify and make your own.
I have disposed of my old reciever batteries, which werent holding there charge very well. And bought 4 new 1.2v Ni-MH rechargables, which I am going to make into a new pack. I went for 2700 mAh batteries, just to make them last as long as possible.
The brackets for the servos are just the aluminium sheet that came with the boat, and a couple of self tappers fixing them.
The forward dive plane servo was a little more tricky to fix. Its hard to see what others on here have done, but I just used 4 long screws to fix it to the base plate, and fabricated a metal plate to attatch the microswitch for the dive plane unit. With a small round head screw going through the servo arm, and touching the plunger on the microswitch. Took a little adjusting but works ok. Might modify this arrangement at a later date.
Now wheres that poxy box of baubles !
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