Rigged Elevators

I finished drilling the aft deck and longerons to the elevator up stop.



I also finished drilling/reaming the forward vertical stabilizer support bracket to the forward spar of the horizontal stabilizer.



The elevator down stop needed quite a bit of material removed to achieve the recommended amount of deflection.



With the up stop manufactured to plans, I get 31.1º of upward deflection (25º-30º is the specified range).  It looks like a number of builders have ended up with slightly more than the 30º limit.



With the adjusted down stop, I can reach 24º deflection from neutral (20º-25º is the specified range).  Since I plan on doing quite a bit of acro, I wanted to get near the upper limit.



Afterward, I adjusted all of the elevator pushrods to length and torqued the jam nuts.



I had to lengthen the servo pushrod from 6" to 6 3/16" center to center to put it at 90º to the servo arm when the elevators are neutral.  I also took the opportunity to prime the servo pushrod and torque everything down.  I still have the forward elevator pushrod to do and the final bellcrank connections to install/torque.