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Steering cable travel???

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Those of you with cable steering, how much movement or travel does your cable have?

NAPA carries control cables with a stainless shaft, but I don't know if they will have enough movement to provide the steering I need

Also, how much steering angle is practical on the rudders? At some point, they will just be obstructing air rather than directing it, which I fear will cause the attachement points to have a short life.
 
A lot of them I see are that way, usually the bell crank style has more movement in one direction than the other
 
I dont know if it is intentional or not but it seems to reason that you would want more rudder movement causing your sharpest turns to occur in the direction of your torque roll. ie: my boat now turns sharper to the left which is the direction of my torque roll which puts the centifigal force of the turn in direct opposition to the torque which keeps it flatter in a turn which will greatly increase your chances of not rolling or sinking your boat.

Now mine wasn't always like that in fact it was just the opposite until I rolled it in a cow pasture. I then got to lookin at it and realized that it turned sharper to the right which put the torque and centrifigal force all goin in the same direction which spelled major inconvienience for me on that day. I fixed that quickly. Airbaots and race cars are mostly about physics just most people dont know it.
 
cntry......you must have a car engine with gear reduction. On my 220 GPU direct drive prop, left turns appear more scary than right turns. While I never did figure out left hand rotation vs. right hand rotation, my prop spins counterclockwise when viewed from the rear (RHR?).

I've kind of conditioned myself to only make right hand turns when running in deep water. If I have to make a left hand turn (and we're talking u-turns for the most part), I'll take a real wide turn.

Am I right here? Or is it just my ignorance showing again? I do know that when I sunk my buddy's airboat in 20 feet of water on North New River canal, I was turning to the left........
 
Doc you have a left hand rotation and your trickiest turns will be to the left. Need to set your rudders to let you turn sharper to the right because it does no good to turn sharp left your boat lays ove rtoo much. I do have a car motor with a gearbox a car motor with a belt drive would torque the same as your aircraft.
 
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