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 Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 3:31 pm Post subject: Wear and tear on the cable fairleads |
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I didn't want to report until I took another look, the
last time I looked closely at all the fairleads was
during the 4th annual condition inspection last December.
I forgot to look last weekend. I took a look today.
The stock 1/8" nylon fairlead material has held up well.
I can not see wear in the perpendicular holes - not
enough room to get the cable out of the way.
I can move the rudder cable out of the way at the aft
of the fuselage. The fairlead is discolored where the
cable touches it, but, there is little obvious wear.
And, the cables look fine where they pass through the
fairleads - no obvious wear.
Joe E (at) BFI
N633Z, 542 hours
CH601XL, Jabiru 3300
Sensenich wood prop 64x51
P.S. I stayed in the pattern at BFI today and did 4 touch + goes
and 1 full stop landing, I'm oncall and can't go too far away.
I turned crosswind at 1000' AGL, except when a Citation took
off on the parallel, then I turned early at ~600'.
On my third time around the controller asked me if I had time
for a question. I said affirmative. He then said, 'Which engine
do you have in the plane?'. I was relieved to hear an airplane
question and not 'Why aren't you ....?' I told him it was a
Jabiru 3300, ~100HP. He said 'Thanks' and the routine radio
traffic resumed.
| Quote: | "Thruster87" <alania(at)optusnet.com.au>
Date: Sep 13, 2008
Could someone elaborate on how the 1/8" nylon fairleads are
wearing. As I'm at a stage where I can change to thicker
material quite easily. [10mm Teflon that I have]
Cheers T87
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