....and while we are talking about rudder cables, years ago I accidentally drilled through a rudder cable when installing a boom microphone. When we pulled the cable out to replace it, we found that the factory had done exactly the same thing a few feet further down the fuselage and half the strands were severed.

Sometime later, I heard of a rudder cable failure on this particular sailplane type and wondered if this were a common manufacturing problem.

Mike