Terminating Antenna Wire
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Terminating Antenna Wire
To hide the pin when using a piece of heat shrink to secure the end of the antenna wire, using sharp scissors, pinch the heat shrink flat and cut a small section from the middle of the shrink tubing about as long as the Tee of the pin making cut just to the inside. Stick the pin through the slot and bury the Tee, then feed the antenna wire and insert pin into stab leaving proud so that heat gun can shrink the tubing clear of the plane. After shrinking, seat the pin fully. Yields a neat and fully hidden pin.
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RE: Terminating Antenna Wire
My Kaos 90's fuselage is so long that my antenna wire only reaches about 3/4 the way to the fin.
I cut one "arm" off a servo output leaving at least 3 holes. Using a T-pin, I run several loops of heavy thread from the pin to the 1st servo hole and then run the antenna wire down the 2nd hole and up through the 3rd.
Ok, so maybe the T-pin head shows but in the air... :-)
Very crude drawing to illustrate.
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I cut one "arm" off a servo output leaving at least 3 holes. Using a T-pin, I run several loops of heavy thread from the pin to the 1st servo hole and then run the antenna wire down the 2nd hole and up through the 3rd.
Ok, so maybe the T-pin head shows but in the air... :-)
Very crude drawing to illustrate.
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RE: Terminating Antenna Wire
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I have all my antennas inside the fuselage within a 3mm sodastraw glued inside the fuselage.
I have all my antennas inside the fuselage within a 3mm sodastraw glued inside the fuselage.