planning on the "down the strut" routing. Now that the wings are finished,
is there a way to extend the tubes to the root without cutting another
inspection hole?
Thanks
Jesse
_________________________________________________________________From: "Wayne G. O'Shea" <oifa@irishfield.on.ca>
Reply-To: <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
To: <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Subject: Re: [rebel-builders] Tube for wiring in the wings
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:44:46 -0500
Everyone is covering this well...I will only add...wires/pitot hoses inside
the wing strut are an absolute PITA ! I also cringe at some of the
weakening
I've seen on Rebels and Elites that I've had thru the hanger with holes cut
in the Fus-70 at the most critical compression point.
It's a shorter and easier route taking everything to the root. If you are
running elect fuel gauges you already have wires there anyhow. I did mine
for easy wing removal and used a multi plug. Recepticle is mounted in the
Fus-27 cabin "wing root" panel and a plug on all the wires coming from wing
(landing light/4 wires of strobe/nav light/fuel gauge/pitot heat). This is
especially important if you are using a fuselage based strobe pack vs tip
packs....as you will want the power pack in the back away from your
radios....so wires easily go rearward from the recepticle past the rear
wing
attach and back to the power pack. Other wires go forward and thru/around
the carrythru and down to the panel thru the glare shield panel. If you are
using MAM's moulded headliner this area is all covered anyhow nicely hiding
your wires. If you don't want to use the recepticle/plug and just want to
splice the fus and wing wires together.....a pitot tube (1/4" nylon) and 6
or more wires can also EASILY be run in from the root to infront of the
carrythru at the front of the Fus-27 and tucked under the top edge of the
windshield...then down the front of the carrythru post/Fus-9 area.
As for the tube itself...yes I use very light walled 5052 tube and
depending
on what all needs to be run dictates size. To mount the tube I use tube
clamps with a 90* fitting on them so they mount right onto the leading edge
rib flanges without any modification.
Wayne
----- Original Message -----
From: <bransom@dcsol.com>
To: <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: [rebel-builders] Tube for wiring in the wings
posts.My situation is similar -- that is, I don't know enf what the fuselage
cage
area will be like to really appreciate the wire routing issues now. My
wings
are done, but I put a thin wall AL tube in my leading edge section, and
ran it
all the way to the root thinking I'd be able to run wires down thecomparedI
think Wayne said he's done em that way, with a wire access hole in the
doubled root rib (and rivets surrounding that hole to reinforce). If it
is too
troublesome to route this way, I may just cut the tube inside the LE
section,
then reroute from the there into the lift strut. I guess that will be my
first use
of the mid-wing inspection hole! ;-) Not sure but what there might be
room
to route the wires down the door posts, but not the few lighting wires.
It
just seems like it ought to be closer to run down from the top asto
down the lift struts, up the floor, then to panel.
-Ben/ 496r
between the front and the main spar. I was just saying
the leading edge in refernce to that skin. Do you have
any pictures of the inside cabin? I would really like
to run the wire all the way to the root and since I
don't have any idea what the finished product will
look like I am haveing a hard time visualizing what
you are saying about routing the wires in the cabin
and cage issues. Is there a lot of room to run the
wires down through the strut?
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