Here’s the pitch trim now installed. ‘Marco’ made the push rod section for me, a beautiful job, and just as a friend as he is not doing this commercially (sorry).

You can see I have the piston section pretty close to parallel to the control stick, just a bit of an angle for safe clearance. This setup should give me a nice linear trim.

The seat belt attachment at the back in pic 3 is for my aux fuel tank hold downs. It will be isolated in use so it can not interfere with this primary control. I am very mindful of this and will probably make a cover so I know it is safe.

I do have mild concerns about some noise from the actuator getting into my system however good earths going to the correct places should make it quiet. I’ll probably have the large power cables that side and audio and signal lines on the left side of the plane.

The actuator is from Motion Systems Corporation #85615-RH-30-3B-0.250-DC1-WP-POT, the ‘POT’ is for a built in potentiometer so I can have a position readout on my main screen. It was not cheap… and is a top quality actuator appropriate for my elevator trim system.

Good clearances

Side view

At the back