Maybe everyone knows this but it was new to me and worked really well.
I was rigging the pushrods for my aileron tonight and dropped a washer… and it disappeared. You know how this goes, right? Screw through a bearing, then a washer and then a spacer and oh, by the way… there really isn’t room there for all of it. So use your favorite technique to get he washer in, then figure out how to wedge the spacer in without knocking off the wash... damn.
It only took 20 minutes to find the washer stuck in a crevasse in the wing. I used a magnetic retrieval tool and got it out. It then dawned on me that if I used a small piece of the 3m double sided tape to tape these two together I could at least insert them as a unit. Then it occurred to me that the magnet would hold the washer (and now connected spacer) while I stuck it into the small space it needed to go. Took 10 second.
Will definatly use this again.
I was rigging the pushrods for my aileron tonight and dropped a washer… and it disappeared. You know how this goes, right? Screw through a bearing, then a washer and then a spacer and oh, by the way… there really isn’t room there for all of it. So use your favorite technique to get he washer in, then figure out how to wedge the spacer in without knocking off the wash... damn.
It only took 20 minutes to find the washer stuck in a crevasse in the wing. I used a magnetic retrieval tool and got it out. It then dawned on me that if I used a small piece of the 3m double sided tape to tape these two together I could at least insert them as a unit. Then it occurred to me that the magnet would hold the washer (and now connected spacer) while I stuck it into the small space it needed to go. Took 10 second.
Will definatly use this again.