ORIGINAL: JohnBuckner

Yes, with that type of crimpinng sleeve you simply crimp after routing as you described. you can also use short peices of brass tubing for crimpers if you don,t want to buy expensive pull/pull sets.

Another method I often use on the airplanes I choose to use pull/pull is to use a clevis threaded onto a solder on thread fitting. Just flatten the end that the wire rod is normally inserted and soldered. Then drill a small hole for spider wire which works great tied directly through this hole and dripped with a drop of Ca. This works well with a lot of lighter aircraft, old timers and such. Have used pull/pull on a fair number of my old timer types even on elevators this of course for the need to minimise weight aft of the CG.

My Balsa Nova was a working airplane that was needed quickly for the use as a pace plane in the old Scale Warbird Racing Association events used at a number of southwestern fields. Typically the airplane would be required fly working normally with three other pace planes for around one minute every fifteen minutes for a total of around fifty flights in a long race day. This required a lot of fore thought to keep the pace planes going with shared pilot duties and refueling and servicing. That why the upright engine for ease of ignitor use and fueling with a visible and accessable fuel tank. In some cases we also used converted Q-500 airplane with taxi capable tri gears for pace planes also. The Balsa Nova is a very easy airplane to land and more importantly easy to taxi and get off the runway quickly. Important for that type of application.

John