"Make your design simple and add complexity as required" That's what we did! We started with moving the ailerons with cables.. but that did not work. It took to much time to (dis)-connect the wing for transport. It whas a hassle to keep tension on the wires. So we changed to a push-pull tube in the wings and left the cables and pully's in the fuselage. We mounted a simple triangular bellcrank on the fuselage to connect the aluminium tubes in the wings to the cables in the fuselage.. but when moving the stick... the cable got loose at some point... Ed -a very good engineer- came up with the rotating disk idea.. we made one out of aluminium and tried the concept. It worked flawlessly.. very light on the controls. Jaques Pijnenborg made the first "wheel" out of Tufnol.
The next step is whas to guide the cables so they moved freely. We aligned the pully's with making a temporary support made from plywood. With very thin carbon rodds we simulated the steel wires. By laminating the the wooden support with carbon cloth we finished the pully support.
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