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Thread: EASY Installation of Shock Cords!

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    Smile EASY Installation of Shock Cords!

    After struggling like many of us with landing gear shock cords, I came up with an idea for EASY one-person installation. I did both sides in a combined 35 minutes by myself. All you will need are two of the hand clamps that most of us already have in our shops.

    Basically, get started with placing the shock cord loop onto the framing hook. Take the remaining cord and push it on through the hole in the cockpit floor. Go underneath and pull down on the cord with all your weight
    with one hand. Once you get it tight, place one of the hand clamps on the
    cord with your free hand right up to the underside of the cabin to keep
    it from pulling through. Make sure it is on tight.

    Then take the loose end of the cord and push
    it back through the floor into the cabin. From there go back up topside
    into the cabin, pull hard on the cord until it is very tight again and
    place another clamp on it there to keep from pulling back through the
    floor.

    Then you just keep repeating. Feed the loose end up back through the
    cabin floor to the underside of the plane. Go back underneath the cabin
    and remove the prior clamp. This clamp can be removed because there is
    one now up top. Keep repeating until complete.

    You should be able to get 6 completed wraps of the cords. Good flying!

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    Default Re: EASY Installation of Shock Cords!

    Here are some pictures of the shock cord installation process with clamps.

    Keith
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    Default Re: EASY Installation of Shock Cords!

    I'm going to get a couple of those. I used channel lock pliers with the jaws taped up. It worked but those clamps look a lot easier. Thanks for the idea!
    Tom Jones
    Classic 4 builder

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    Default Re: EASY Installation of Shock Cords!

    Hey, Thanks for the pics. I think you just saved me a bunch of time and effort. I'm just at that point now.

    -- Paul S

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