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I have to confess to being guilty here. You guys have already gotten me
started thinking about the idea! It also doesn't sound all that difficult
to accomplish. I already hold my canopies on with a snap device that is
simple and idiot-proof(needs to be for me).
<br>G.
<p>RUDDERCABL@aol.com wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE> In a message dated 1/16/2004 11:31:02 AM Eastern
Standard Time, Eric.Henderson@gartner.com writes:
<blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><font face="Arial">Lamar
Blair and Jerry Stebbins sell a very nice nylon insert that grabs the 4-40
very well indeed. A very neat homemade option is to use plastic water pipe.
One that has too big a diameter. What you do is cut off a 1/2" wide piece.
Then cut out enough of the "ring" so that it can be compressed and pushed
into the wing tube. A touch of CA and you have a section that can be threaded
and will "grab" your $4000 screw.</font></blockquote>
I have been using the plastic water pipe method for five years. However,
I don't CA it in the wingtube. Should the threads be stripped at a contest,
it can be pulled out, rotated a few degrees and redrilled and threaded
in less than ten minutes. As far as simple is concerned, one 4-40
screw can't get any simpler. Any one who wants snap on devices is looking
for instant gradifacation, not simplicity! Robert Gainey</blockquote>
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