Posted for Timothy Farrell <motoracer@gmail.com>:
I
have used this often in the past to connect elevators, rudders and ailerons: http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/elpages/copperbraid.php Put
on some quality terminals and make sure you are getting good contact directly to the carbon. I am including a pic of an elevator
that I connected to the wing skin. You want the ground strap to be long enough to allow full movement and have it run
somewhere where it won't bind with anything. On the elevators, we connected to the fuselage on the joggle of the
inspection plate cover (countersunk #10 screw with a locking ms nut). I can't remember exactly how the strap connected to the
elevator, maybe someone else will chime in here, but I believe we just put a counter sink screw through the lower skin (before
paint). Just as note: on carbon structures, resistence from the static wick to bare carbon on the front of the plane (the
cowl joggle for instance) can be as low as a few ohms! Have Fun Tim
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