hawkeye266

I am building a hanger 9 40 size piper cub and would like to mount the antenna inside the plane an the instruction talk about using an antenna tube but I can not find one in any catalog I have. Does anyone who or where I can purchase one.

greenboot

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Use your imagination. Several drinking straws taped together. A piece of paper rolled up and taped. An old piece of nyrod. You can usually buy one at hobby or craft shops.

Tom

Irish R.Seer

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I thought Dubro made tubes for antennas. Check them out at www.dubro.com
Bill.

MinnFlyer

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You can even rubber band the antenna to a long scrap balsa stick, and slide it into position. Put a drop of CA on the end and stick it to a bulkhead (or something) in the radio compartment.

dr_wogz

My Feedback: (3)

The yellow insert from Sullivan 'Gold n Rods' work as antenna tubes.
Actually,t eh insert for most 'control rods' can work

Most LHS sell some small dia plastic (poly - something) tubes. The work too!

Geistware

My Feedback: (16)

Get a Sullivan rod and put the wire inside of it.

FHHuber

K$S (the people that make most of the musc wire we find in the hobby shop) makes a tube specificly for the antenna. The LHS carries it at $1 each tube.

RCKen

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Go to Lowe's (or other home improvement store, or you local hardware store) and look for where they sell tubing. you should be able to find small tubing to use for your antennea. Here it costs $.06/foot

FLYBOY

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Go to your bike store or hardware store and get bicycle break cable outer housing and use it. Works great.

Bill DCat

Like Irish said, Dubro sells one. You can find it [link=http://www.shopatron.com/product/product_id=DUB511/101.0.538.540.0.0.0]here[/link].

Bill

iflyrc24

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Don't bicycle cables have a steel coil under the vinyl?

I have used the plastic sheaths that K&S tubing comes in. It is 1/4" dia and 36" long.

If you use anything that the antenna could remotely possibly fold back on it's self glue a small piece of foam to the very end of the antenna. Then use a ram rod of sorts to push the antenna down the tube. This will also keep it from sliding back out the tube and coiling up in the servo bay.

DEG

tnielsen

i used an control rod tube .just rotate the wire when you fish it through the tube.then tie a knot on the end of the wire .then glue the tube where you want it.

CHEF-UK

whatever you decide, dont decide to use a carbon tube though. thats naughty.