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Alright folks.....I DID IT!!!
And here's how: I read each of the above posts, called multiple friends, while gathering up everyone's idea, then came up with my own plan of attack. I ordered new tubing, (thanks to Paul Remde). About 30 feet long. I took a broom stick, duct taped to another broom stick, to make one 11 foot broom stick. The rudder was removed so I could come easily from an access hole at the aft end of the fuselage between the vertical fin and rudder. Then I took double sided foam tape and laid that from the end to about 3 feet back. Then I firmly pressed the tubing onto the foam tape. I placed flourescent lights inside the fuselage on extension chords so I could get a good view of what I was doing. By using the needle nose pliers, I stretched the inside of the tubing by about 25% greater than normal inside diamator would be. Next I very very slowly, "jabbed" the broomstick/tubing over the "barb" that pointed towards the aft end of the fuselage. I was able to get approxiamately a 1/4 inch of the tubing over the barb on the total energy mount. The long 3 feet of double sided foam tape gave GREAT strength from front to back when applying pressure to the tubing, but from side to side it would easily peel off. Now that the tubing was barely on, I was able to twist the broom stick and peel off the doube sided foam tape from the tubing. I withdrew the 11 foot pole and taped the needle nose pliers on the end of it with the pliers open about 15 degrees, enough to get around the tubing about midway down the pliers grips. Finally I pushed the 11 foot pole with the pliers open and griped the tubing and mashed it over the 1 inch barb on the total energy probe. Believe it or not, the whole thing took about 30 mins. And about 1 week to contemplate a plan of attack. Now I've got new tubing throughout the entire glider. It's ready to rock! See you at cloudbase!!! Spring is finally here :^) Scott |
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