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Hal, Ed, etal,

The first time somebody alerted me about problems with the wire-grips I mentioned in my previous post was during a Lancair builders' meeting at OSH.  Stubbornly, I still used it, but just for the ram-air door.  Failure mode was with the wire.  It was cut off inside the wire grip.  This happened twice before I finally replaced this with a solid-rod cable.  It is possible that I over tightened the grip, thus causing the wire to break.  Hollis, could you please let us know where your failure mode was?  In any case, using these wire-grip component has lead to four (4) failures that I know off and felt it purdent to post this info...


Rick Argente
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