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...AF (Leading Edge Airfoils) Supply catalog refers to these as cable grommets. You need to remove the cable from the carb to install new...catalog page showing a rebuild kit and referring to it as a cable grommet. http://store.lea...Comment on "Just found a frayed upper rear cable on my wing!"
Is that cable crimp rusted? I can't tell from the picture. If it is, could water have settled on the lowest part of the Eye. I could see where water may have played a part in the deterioration of the cable.- Broken cable on a strutted wing? Hard to imagine given the low tension on lower fore/aft cables. More likely improper set-u...king in the late 70’s and on one occasion the rear cable did fail on a trike due to fa...
- ...e low flying some distance from a runway. If you had some redundancy in cable retraction say from a spring...hinking about this incorrectly. What if there was tape or a zip tie on cable nut so that it is captured in...
- ...res). A single standard tang is the weak link. Can’t recall what size cables were on the broken ones. I...vy AN eye-bolts, in shear...is best. Lots of cross sectional area. No cable can break the hardware in eit...
- I may not be thinking correctly regarding how you'd throttle cable is connected to your carb. Very different from ones I have had. No surprise since I have never owned a 912.
- On the left, where the throttle cables go through the frame, there can be some wear points, so I split some fuel hose and put it around the cable at these areas.
- Dean the only time this has happened on my mustang wing is when I had the cable on the side of the keel. just shouldn't get caught there period.
- Does the haulback cable stay under the wing? On all of my wings it is typically going through the hole aboe the hang block to the clip on the rear of the keel. Perhaps this is contributing?
- Hey Dean, I think the wing may fly better if that haul back cable was on top of the hang block not under the top bolt.