On Apr 2, 4:13*pm, "Tim Mara" wrote:
better you than me!
I had a Libelle that had the tail cone broken and repaired by a good
fiberglass glider repair shop....though unfortunately, they knew nothing
about radios and used TV RF Connectors pinched onto the old coax.....which
of course were incorrect type and then fell off anyway...I spent a day
fishing a new coax cable through a Libelle from the panel to the antenna in
the tail only because I was told it couldn't be done...never missed a single
tiny hole in the bulkheads with the new leads (Had the old cable been left
in place I could have spliced to it and dragged the new cable through, it
however fell loose about 1/2 way in the fuselage....
Anyway, you have to have patience.....and be creative....the 2x4 idea isn't
half bad, seriously..I could envision a tool (something smaller than a 2x4)
that could hold a tube *in a way you could reach back there with and
reinstall....but, aside from this you could, simply pull out, drill out,
push out the old TE socket and epoxy in a new and better one, that would be
pretty quick and easy (I also have sockets and probes for this) and /or
better yet again, run the tube all the way back to the vertical fin and put
a proper fin TE probe in...in any case, again glad it's not mine ) But I
can help with parts and ideas... been there.....done that
Tim
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The tubing from the instrument panel to the total energy probe has
fallen off. * The total energy probe on my asw-15b is located half way
from the cockpit to the rudder. *It's mounted from the inside of the
fuselage. *There are no external bolts. *The only thing outside is a
metal hole that curves aft 2.5 inches inside at the bottom of the
metal sleeve.

If my arm was 9 feet long I could easily reach back and slip the
tubing on it. *Unfortunately my arm is about 3 feet long. *Seems like
if I had a 2X2X8 with some sort of contraption built to hold the
tubing at the end, I could use that to place it on. *I can't think of
any ideas to have a good firm grip to slide the tubing over the inside
mounting of the total energy probe.

Any thoughts?

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You'll never be able to build anything with the dexterity and
precision needed to get a piece of tygon or similar tubing over a
barbed fitting from 9 feet away (okay, maybe shouldn't use "never",
but you get the idea). I helped somebody out with an older Grob
that had the dorsal-mounted TE probe, and the only way we found to do
it was to cut out out the probe very carefully, re-attach the tubing,
then glass it back in. We drilled a 1/8" pilot hole right up against
the flange of the probe, then slipped a hobbyists coping saw blade in
and had at it. If you're very careful, you can minimize the work
area.

There may be a secret to the ASW-15 mounting which I'm not aware of...