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Pan-tilt push arm length?

By being too eager and opening up my pixy kit a few days before I had time to assemble it, I managed to misplace the push arm. What’s the length on that so I can remake it? Searched the wiki and documents, apologies if I missed it.

If I wanted to assemble a second pan-tilt mechanism from servos I have, and the stl files for the base and body parts, it’d be good to have basic dimensional info on the little brackets, bushings and push arm.

Oh right, the pushrod! Here’s the drawing (attached)

Paperclip! Ordinary small paperclip is about the right gauge, around 0.033, bends to shape but is rigid enough to work. Hassle is making the bend around a thin nose plier to hold the screw properly - easy to get it out of the required plane.

BTW - the kit have has four extra angle brackets, four extra long 4-40s, five extra short 4-40s, extra servo horns and screws (of course). So I’m one bracket and one pushrod short of the hardware for a second one.