Building tips and hints

[Guy Buchanan]

You don't want ANY of those hot spots. The fabric on the fuselage drums like mad in level flight and pushes in a lot depending on the angle of attack. (Sides for slips, and bottom for high-alpha.) You'll have wear strips for the tubing, but these hot spots wear like crazy and can even crack the paint, if using urethane. I had to adhere aluminum disks wherever I had tie wraps. Even the thin metal Adels would wear. I think the best way would be to run everything down the side, near the stand-offs, so the fabric can't get to them. Or maybe use string, in place of tie wraps. (What the hell's that stuff called? It's black, flat, and waxed and is what we used before tie wraps. I have a whole roll that I seldom use.)

[hairy_kiwi]

Or maybe use string, in place of tie wraps. (What the hell's that stuff called? It's black, flat, and waxed and is what we used before tie wraps.

Hi Guys and Gals - I'm new here

After lurking a long while and just browsing so much great info, I finally have something useful to reciprocate:
It's called Lacing Tape: there's quite a range available these days - black, white, coloured - and different materials too: nylon, polyester, nomex. Here's a couple of links:
https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catal...acingTapes.php
http://www.is-cabletec.com/downloads...acing_Tape.pdf


Hamish Mead
Ledbury, UK

[BobRS]

Nice idea for a few other "buried" fastener locations on my build. However, for your bolt location, I installed nut-plates thereby eliminating the need to install washers and nuts.
BobRS, KF N104Y, Rotax 914
Albuquerque, NM
Flying 2-years

[airlina]

Another idea in these areas, are Clickbond fasteners. I stumbled on them years ago and used them in areas where I needed a bunch of nutplates and didn't want to use a traditional riveted nutplate (such as the window and windshield installation.) Check them out they have solutions for many attachment issues. Bruce N199CL

[PapuaPilot]

Great tip John. Its hard to control the amount with the spray cans. I am tired of getting overspray on my windows when lubing the inboard flaperon hinges.

[Doggitz]

There are a number of on-line sources for blunt tip (dispensing) needles. Remember that the higher the gauge of the needle, the SMALLER it becomes.

Fred
Building 7SS
Plan 914

[efwd]

Nice idea John. I had not thought of that and could have used it. First I crawled down into the fuse to spray the rod ends and got it all over the fabric as well. Thanks. I can ditch the rag I used to pack around and under these bearings.

[jrevens]

In the middle of doing my annual condition inspection now, and I thought I'd share what I use to apply the TriFlow and LPS 1 lubricants for the various rod-ends, hinges, etc. I've found out that some people are not aware that you can buy both of these lubricants in non-aerosol bottles (at Amazon, etc.). I've found that using the spray cans is really messy for me, so I use a couple of syringes that I got from a plastic supply house here. They're used for applying glue for PVC & poly-carbonates by those guys. They work great for applying just the right amount of lube right where you need it, a drop at a time if you want. I fill up a couple of smaller bottles for convenience, then load the syringes with a small quantity when I want to use them. I'm sure others have thought of this too, but I wanted to share it with the group.

[Hawkertech]

Ill have a bit if time to study and note all these tips, about 1 1/2 years, order to delivery.

[Delta Whisky]

To be honest, I haven't read through all of the posts in this thread so this might have been up before - if it has, please ask the admin to delete it.

I worried about how to manage installing the washers and nuts in the very small space at the rear of the windshield/canopy. I ended up with a system that worked really well - place a magnet on the head of the screw and the washer will stay put just fine. (So will the nut BTW.) Then with long nose pliers and a screw driver the rest is a piece of cake. This picture is of the process, not the area in question: but, if the truth were to be known, I used it in a lot of places today - made life a lot easier.

Hardware mounting with magnet small.jpg