bill.hutchison
Well Known Member
This is more of a retrofit/maintenance trick, but I was utterly delighted by this trick and thought I would share with some of the others who are new to this stuff.
Scenario - running all the new wires for a retrofit on a Ray Allen stick that has trim controls, AP disco + PTT and a spare. 6 wires total. My wiring penetrations under the seats and through the spar are pretty tight, and it's very, very hard to pass wires through them, especially thin, delicate wires.
The guy mentoring/helping me on the airplane suggested feeding a short length of spare plastic pitot tubing through the penetration, creating a nice, smooth channel to pass the wires through. As a bonus, it protects the wires, too.
What would have been a painstaking and difficult process became a 5-minute task. I was shaking my head at how simple it was.
Scenario - running all the new wires for a retrofit on a Ray Allen stick that has trim controls, AP disco + PTT and a spare. 6 wires total. My wiring penetrations under the seats and through the spar are pretty tight, and it's very, very hard to pass wires through them, especially thin, delicate wires.
The guy mentoring/helping me on the airplane suggested feeding a short length of spare plastic pitot tubing through the penetration, creating a nice, smooth channel to pass the wires through. As a bonus, it protects the wires, too.
What would have been a painstaking and difficult process became a 5-minute task. I was shaking my head at how simple it was.