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Title:Welcome To The Radio Control Conference
Notice:dir's in 11, who's who in 4, sales in 6, auctions 19
Moderator:VMSSG::FRIEDRICHS
Created:Tue Jan 13 1987
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1706
Total number of notes:27193

1184.0. "repair of a glass boom fuselage" by --UnknownUser-- () Tue Feb 20 1990 16:33

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1184.1foam itCSC32::M_ANTRYFri Oct 27 1989 11:337
    Anker on the Songbird fill the fuselage boom with the NON-expanding
    foam in a can.  Place the outer sheath of a NYROD on the tube that
    comes on the can enableing you to get it way in the back.  But in order
    for any tube (like a glass fuse) to break it has to collapse on one
    side.  With the foam in there it can't collapse as easy.  Make sure it
    is the non expanding type.  With the expanding type it expands to 3x's
    and you run the risk of splitting your fuse.
1184.2Hard to do nowCURIE::ANKERAnker Berg-SonneFri Oct 27 1989 13:1920
        Re:                     <<< Note 929.174 by CSC32::M_ANTRY >>>

                Its going  to  be  difficult  because  the  linkages  are
        pull-pull cables running  directly from the servos to the control
        hors witout any type  of  sheath.    Now that the plane is done I
        can't put sheaths on the  cables - permanently fixed at the ends.
        You bet I will do this  in  the future.  It was quite shocking to
        see how easily it folded.
        
        Thanks
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1184.3WRASSE::FRIEDRICHSFull time parent... finally!Fri Oct 27 1989 13:408
    Anker, 
    
    You can still put sheaths on the cables, even with the permanently
    fixed ends...  Just split the sheath lengthwise then feed it down over
    the wire..  
    
    jeff
    
1184.4let the foam itself become the sheathSA1794::TENEROWICZTFri Oct 27 1989 14:069
    If the pull/pull is using Kevlar you can probably get away without
    any sheaths. Try it on the bench with a seperate piece of the
    Pull/Pull material. Blow some foam around it and the break the
    pull/pull matl. away from the foam. You might find that the break
    will be clean and the material will slide inside the foam.
    If it works on the bench then it will work in the fuse.
    
    
    Tom