Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 09:31:42 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from vineyard.net ([204.17.195.90] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1b4) with ESMTP id 2141792; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 08:00:10 -0400 Received: from direct (fsy13.vineyard.net [66.101.65.13]) by vineyard.net (Postfix) with SMTP id A598391667; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 08:00:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Original-Message-ID: <001d01c307fd$b7eeb2a0$0d416542@direct> From: "Ted Stanley" X-Original-To: "Mail List Lancair" Subject: re: safety-ing turn buckles X-Original-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 07:59:32 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Marv - Sorry I don't have the ability to send you a picture but here's the text from AC43.13-1B. If it were me I'd skip the safety wire and get some MS21256 locking clips, they install in seconds, and there's no safety wire ends to bite you later. Ted Stanley - A&P-IA 7-180. DOUBLE-WRAP METHOD. Of the methods using safety wire for safetying turnbuckles, the method described here is preferred, although either of the other methods described is satisfactory. The method of double-wrap safetying is shown in figure 7-24(A). a. Use two separate lengths of wire. Run one end of the wire through the hole in the barrel of the turnbuckle and bend the ends of the wire toward opposite ends of the turnbuckle. b. Pass the second length of the wire into the hole in the barrel and bend the ends along the barrel on the side opposite the first. Spiral the two wires in opposite directions around the barrel to cross each other twice between the center hole and the ends. c. Then pass the wires at the end of the turnbuckle in opposite directions through the hole in the turnbuckle eyes or between the jaws of the turnbuckle fork, as applicable, laying one wire along the barrel and wrapping the other at least four times around the shank of the turnbuckle and binding the laid wires in place before cutting the wrapped wire off. d. Wrap the remaining length of safety wire at least four turns around the shank and cut it off. Repeat the procedure at the opposite end of the turnbuckle. e. When a swaged terminal is being safetied, pass the ends of both wires through the hole provided in the terminal for this purpose and wrap both ends around the shank as previously described. If the hole is not large enough to allow passage of both wires, pass the wire through the hole and loop it over the free end of the other wire, and then wrap both ends around the shank as previously described. Another satisfactory double-wrap method is similar to the previous method, except that the spiraling of the wires is omitted as shown in figure 7-24(B).