How To Assemble Our Carbon Control Rod Kits

Team Legit offers durable, light-weight and precise control rod kits for RC / UAV model Airplanes. These kits are particularly adapted to FPV-style flying wings. They're also mechanical artwork! In this video, Ian installs our "Medium" Advanced Carbon Control Rod Kit on a Ritewing Hardcore 38 airframe.
Our Small, Medium and Large Carbon Control Rod Kits can be found here on our webstore:
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Our own wing kits, as well as those from other manufactures, can be found here:
team-legit.com/rc-airplanes.html
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Chapter Titles
0:00 About Our Kits
2:34 Airframe Prep
3:10 Choosing Parts
6:29 Control Horns
11:48 Ball Links & Clevises
15:05 Tube Couplers
15:45 Measure Twice
16:54 Cut Once
20:18 Gluing Couplers
22:01 Mounting Rods
25:20 Trimming Screws
26:36 All Done!

[@offaxisfpv]

great walk through. THANK YOU!!!

[@tracythomasvision]

Love the one's on my Mini Drak!!

[@BrockLeeFPV]

These rods are nice. I just installed these on my nano drak

[@thenatedog]

love em

[@vitale6633]

This is an excellent control rod instructional video. Lots of great tips and tricks, including personal safety.

[@MichaelJWolf-ku3kv]

Have always loved your instructional vids. They’re the only reason I was able to successfully build my first fpv wing, a Team Legit 5D, about 5 years ago. I just ordered the 5D2 kit with the high output power system from your website and I ordered this carbon rod kit as well. I ordered the medium kit but now I’m thinking I should have gotten the large kit for the 5D2. Do you think the medium will hold up ok with this plane?

[@FPVTeamLegit]

Hey Michael--Yup, a Large kit would work great on the 5D2, but we actually already include one with each 5D2 kit! Thanks for asking!

[@scottyh72]

Linkage geo is wrong. Low on the servo, high on the control surface for a wing. Use 222 threadlocker instead of blue. Does the same thing, yet you can remove it with hand tools.

[@FPVTeamLegit]

The "pink stuff" mild thread locker is a great choice too. More guys have blue laying around than pink so that's why we recommend the blue. Anything but Red! Re: geometry... pros and cons. 1:1 gives you less leverage than Surface-High/Servo-Low, but also keeps response more linear which is why we recommend it as a starting point.

[@scottyh72]

@FPVTeamLegit No tailless aircraft I have ever flown can use a 1:1 linkage ratio without severely limiting servo travel and resolution. 3d aircraft uses 1:1 for sure, but you have a wing in the video. Hence my original comment.

[@daviddavids2884]

information 7:09 a pushrod should be Perpendicular to its associated hinge line.!!! consequently, elevon servos Need to be oriented, Correctly. in the case of a swept wing, each wing half should have a load-bearing main spar, located at Thirty percent of chord. sorry, you have made something simple (a pushrod), COMPLICATED.!!!

[@FPVTeamLegit]

It's true that angling the pushrods relative to the hinge line (how this aircraft is designed) changes the geometry from baseline, but the change can be effectively accounted for. Personally we prefer pushrods inline with the airflow for reduced turbulence and drag.

[@SnappyDIY]

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