Wing hold down - falsifies

[Keith Black]

That's a pretty good idea with the rubber bands on the prop. 

I do something similar because I'm scared to death that I'm going to forget the wing bolts. To fuel my plane rather than fuel dots I use a short piece of fuel tubing between two 90 deg. nipples external to the fuse. The nipples also have little red caps that go over them. I've got a rule that the fuel tubing can't come out of my box before the wing bolts are in.

This isn't completely fool proof because it does require me to remember my self imposed rule, but when I go to fuel up and see the red caps over the fuel nipples I immediately think to double check that I've put in the wing bolts. 

I agree with Jeff that it would be nice if there was some *reliable* auto-locking mechanism that could be used. The challenge is that it would have to stand up to hundreds or thousands of connect/disconnect cycles and not become loose or fail. If such a thing existed then I'd only have to have a rule to remember to put the second wing on.

Keith Black
 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sneedb at aol.com 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 3:53 PM
  Subject: Re: Wing hold down - falsifies


  I've been using the old hooks and rubber bands method to hold the wings on for years.  When I remove the bands from the hooks I immediately wrap the bands around the prop and spinner and leave them there.  When you go out for your next flying sesson you're not going to start the engine with rubber bands wrapped around your prop and spinner.  Not fool proof but pretty close    Bill
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