Originally Posted by
Dave Wilshere
I place Velcro on the fuselage side and put a loop of Velcro strap around the wire, as you close the tail I attach the hoop to the side. It keeps it away from the pipe.
But I have a wire each side as I hate single points of failure.
Actually the outer tube wall is not crazy hot back there because of the moving air between the two pipes. My outer pipe just touches the tailpipe skin and you don’t see any real heating in the paint.
Hey Dave,
Doesn’t that setup give you TWO independent single points of failure? One for the left elevator cable and one for the right elevator cable? My apologies if I have misunderstood you somehow.
I also split my cables when I did my routing and I glued a plastic mount (for use with zip ties) to a couple of places on each side of the rear fuselage. If the glue or the zip tie releases (very unlikely as opposed to Velcro) I figure that I’ve got bigger problems to deal with such as the fuselage breaking in two, lol.
Regards,
Jim