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Old 12-02-2005 | 11:46 AM
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Default RE: Functional hardware fittings on scale models

I'm sure you guy's are all aware that Proctor offers lots of hardware. Their catalog is really nice if you don't have one you should get one, they have line drawings of their hardware. I was once going to use the smallest turnbuckle they offered to make my Strutter more scale-like but found that strength becomes an issue. The littlest brass turnbuckles look good but are not really meant for flying wires and landing wires...the high stress areas. Once again it becomes necessary to choose between something that looks really great and something that will actually be functional...I have seen somewhere that you can use only the turnbuckle body with a wire through the center, attaching the cable to the wire on each end you have what looks like a turnbuckle but it's as strong as the cable, can't be tightened though....

Randy