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orchidman
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 Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 9:16 am Post subject: Heater cable mounting |
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I am trying to think ahead just a little and having a problem with the heat control cables.
Looking at them they must be installed from the cabin side. The nut is on the forward side of the bracket they are mounted on in the cabin. So you must have the mounting bracket already drilled, and prep’ed before you can install these cables. You would pass the cable through the mounting hole, route to the firewall, through the firewall on to its final destination.
So for example if I want the cables mounted on the F-1003B Inst Panel Lower Flange, I have to drill the holes in it and mount the cables before I can install the cables the rest of the way.
Right now I plan on doing like Tim did and mounting them on a bracket installed under the throttle quad. But I still have to make the bracket now if I want to install the heater cables at this time. A possible solution would be to make a bracket and slit it through the holes. Then when I am ready to do the final install, lay the cables in half of the piece, add the top half and then attach the 2 halves with some type of back plate, tighten the nuts and it is done.
How are others handling this?
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| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 9:41 am Post subject: Heater cable mounting |
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You want that bracket fairly stout, those push/pull cables should be called yank/slam cables but they do wear in a bit. I was in the same boat with mine, mine are panel mounted and I had to wait till the panel was in to route them. It was not really a big deal, but I have to tell you that upside dwon under the panel is not real fun but you can do it. Don't forget the cable clamp the holds the cables just before they exit the firewall. Put your Bowden clamps on the heater boxes before you install them. MUCH EASIER. Keep the inner steel cable in the outer when routing them, only pull them back far enough to cut the outer cable...they can be a B*t$h if not inpossible to reinstall without loosening up the clamps, they don't like to slide into the curved sections, the tip digs into the liner. I did mine with the engine hung, oiler cooler on took me an afternoon and I have the battle scars to show it. Buuuuuuut, It's done now and like everything else, seemed like a pain then, but now that it's finished, wasn't too bad.
Rick Sked
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rene(at)felker.com
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| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 9:48 am Post subject: Heater cable mounting |
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First I used an alternate panel (Stein) and a center console. So.....
I made a bracket for the two cables and drilled the bottom of my panel and added nut plates to attach the bracket later. Inserted the cables in the bracket and then estimated where they would be in space (my panel was not installed) and then ran them through the firewall and connected them up.
One of the plusses of doing it this way was that while I work under the panel I can undo the bracket and get the cables out of the way. I am starting to wonder why I need them, in the first 10 hours of flying, with the ground temps in the 30s and 40s, all I use are the fresh air vents and have not turned on the heaters yet....except to test.....they work.
Rene' Felker
RV-10 N423CF Flying
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Tim Olson
Joined: 25 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:15 am Post subject: Heater cable mounting |
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You'll probably appreciate them at some point. I've flown around
on nice summer days and been below freezing at altitude. It still
is pretty good, with sunlight, but eventually you'll find some
time when you like having them. You'll likely never open
them full though unless you're flying in really cold temps.
Tim Olson - RV-10 N104CD - Flying
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Rene Felker wrote:
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First I used an alternate panel (Stein) and a center console.
So.....
I made a bracket for the two cables and drilled the bottom of my
panel and added nut plates to attach the bracket later. Inserted the
cables in the bracket and then estimated where they would be in space
(my panel was not installed) and then ran them through the firewall
and connected them up.
One of the plusses of doing it this way was that while I work under
the panel I can undo the bracket and get the cables out of the way.
I am starting to wonder why I need them, in the first 10 hours of
flying, with the ground temps in the 30s and 40s, all I use are the
fresh air vents and have not turned on the heaters yet....except to
test.....they work.
Rene' Felker RV-10 N423CF Flying
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effectus(at)rogers.com
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| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:23 am Post subject: Heater cable mounting |
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Gary,
I just finished going through the same mental exercise. I decided to
mount them in a small rectangular piece of aluminum that has two nut
plates attached just outboard of the holes the cable go through. This
way I can make holes just big enough for the knobs to come through from
the rear and have two holes in the panel to put screws through to the
smaller plate behind.
Clear as mud eh?
Let me know if you want a picture.
Dave Hertner
orchidman wrote:
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I am trying to think ahead just a little and having a problem with the heat control cables.
Looking at them they must be installed from the cabin side. The nut is on the forward side of the bracket they are mounted on in the cabin. So you must have the mounting bracket already drilled, and prep’ed before you can install these cables. You would pass the cable through the mounting hole, route to the firewall, through the firewall on to its final destination.
So for example if I want the cables mounted on the F-1003B Inst Panel Lower Flange, I have to drill the holes in it and mount the cables before I can install the cables the rest of the way.
Right now I plan on doing like Tim did and mounting them on a bracket installed under the throttle quad. But I still have to make the bracket now if I want to install the heater cables at this time. A possible solution would be to make a bracket and slit it through the holes. Then when I am ready to do the final install, lay the cables in half of the piece, add the top half and then attach the 2 halves with some type of back plate, tighten the nuts and it is done.
How are others handling this?
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Gary Blankenbiller
RV10 - # 40674
Fuselage SB
(N410GB reserved)
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Deems Davis
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| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:39 am Post subject: Heater cable mounting |
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somewhat like this?
http://deemsrv10.com/album/Sec%20The%20Home%20Stretch/slides/DSC05531.html
Deems Davis # 406
'Its all done....Its just not put together'
http://deemsrv10.com/
David Hertner wrote:
| Quote: | This way I can make holes just big enough for the knobs to come
through from the rear and have two holes in the panel to put screws
through to the smaller plate behind.
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effectus(at)rogers.com
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| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 11:01 am Post subject: Heater cable mounting |
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Yes but mounted from behind the panel.
Dave
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Deems Davis wrote:
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