As many owners of the Blade 180CFX will attest, the stock tail servo tends to be fragile. For some time, I have suspected that my stock tail servo is about to give up the ghost. I have had a Spektrum H3060 servo sitting on a shelf, awaiting installation, but I didn't want to waste a perfectly working stock tail servo, and so I've been flying the stocker without incident, but waiting for it to show some sign of imminent disaster.

Eventually, one morning, I spooled up and the tail started this weird, intermittent popping or twitching behavior, always about 1-2 cm in the clockwise direction. Sort of like it's smooth, then twitch, smooth, then twitch-twitch-smooth, and so on. The twitching would tend to worsen while I was flying. Finally, I thought, it was time to replace the stock tail servo.

There is more than one technique for installing the H3060 tail servo into the 180CFX. One technique is to carefully grind the servo case and portions of the 180’s boom support until the servo fits snugly into the 180's tail servo mount. A second technique is to install a Lynx tail servo adapter that is specifically designed to be used with the 180CFX and the H3060 tail servo. I chose the latter technique as I couldn't guarantee that I wouldn't grind the servo case without killing the servo.

I am impressed with the Lynx servo adapter--at first, I didn't think it would enable the H3060 to fit without grinding the servo case at least a little bit. Much to my surprise, the...Continue Reading