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Attaching braided ground to aluminum skin
My lower tail nav light doesn't work because the braided metal ground
strap that connected the tailcone to the light housing fell off the tail cone side. I can't tell (at least from the outside) how it was originally attached to the aluminum skin. I don't see a rivet -- would it have been soldered? Crimped somehow? -- Ben Jackson http://www.ben.com/ |
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My lower tail nav light doesn't work because the braided metal ground
strap that connected the tailcone to the light housing fell off the tail cone side. Usually they are connected with a crimp ring tongue on the braided strap and by a screw to the frame that the tail cone attaches to. John Dupre' |
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You didn't specify make/model, but on my C182, the Grimes lamp
holder assembly is mounted on the fiberglass tailcone. There are two wires, power and ground. Each has the aircraft-style "quick connect" interlocking-blade connectors (the kind that have a piece of insulating sleeve pushed over them). The power wire comes through the rear fuselage bulkhead via a grommet. The ground wire is grounded to that same bulkhead with a crimp-on ring-tongue terminal under a 6-32 screw. At each annual, it only takes a moment to remove the fiberglass tailcone and to disconnect the blade-tongue connectors. MikeM Ben Jackson wrote: My lower tail nav light doesn't work because the braided metal ground strap that connected the tailcone to the light housing fell off the tail cone side. I can't tell (at least from the outside) how it was originally attached to the aluminum skin. I don't see a rivet -- would it have been soldered? Crimped somehow? |
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