Original Posted By: "Cuy, Michael D. (GRC-RXD0)[ASRC Aerospace Corporation]"
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: Tach cable lubrication?This is a multi-part message in MIME format.________________________________________________________________________________
Pietenpol-List: Tach cable lubrication?
Pietenpol-List: Tach cable lubrication?
Original Posted By: "walt"
Subject: Pietenpol-List: Tach cable lubrication?This might seem like a dumb question, but I've just installed a new tach cable purchased from Aircraft Spruce. Does the inner cable need any additional lubricant? I'm assuming it comes lubricated but there are some bends in it getting from the engine back to the tach in the back pit. If additional lubrication will extend the life of that inner cable, now would be the time to do it. If so, any recommendations on the lube to use. I've seen some low temp. Mil. spec. greaseat Univair that they recommend for tachs but there might also be an automotive product that works well too.. any suggestions? Matt PaxtonNX629ML (just got the registration this week)**************Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in the U.S. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/dome ... av00000002)________________________________________________________________________________
Subject: Pietenpol-List: Tach cable lubrication?This might seem like a dumb question, but I've just installed a new tach cable purchased from Aircraft Spruce. Does the inner cable need any additional lubricant? I'm assuming it comes lubricated but there are some bends in it getting from the engine back to the tach in the back pit. If additional lubrication will extend the life of that inner cable, now would be the time to do it. If so, any recommendations on the lube to use. I've seen some low temp. Mil. spec. greaseat Univair that they recommend for tachs but there might also be an automotive product that works well too.. any suggestions? Matt PaxtonNX629ML (just got the registration this week)**************Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in the U.S. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/dome ... av00000002)________________________________________________________________________________
Re: Pietenpol-List: Tach cable lubrication?
Original Posted By: Woodflier(at)aol.com
My Mentor recommends Lubriplate white greasewalt evansNX140DL ----- Original Message -----
My Mentor recommends Lubriplate white greasewalt evansNX140DL ----- Original Message -----
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Original Posted By: joe motis
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Re: Pietenpol-List: Tach cable lubrication?
Original Posted By: "walt"
When I worked at the speedometer shop building cables, we would slide one end of the cable cores into the 12 inch long Lubriplate white lithium grease tube that lived on the counter with no lid. Then we put the cable core back in the housing and shipped them. Jeremy in DallasSent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile-----Original Message-----
When I worked at the speedometer shop building cables, we would slide one end of the cable cores into the 12 inch long Lubriplate white lithium grease tube that lived on the counter with no lid. Then we put the cable core back in the housing and shipped them. Jeremy in DallasSent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile-----Original Message-----
RE: Pietenpol-List: Tach cable lubrication?
Original Posted By: Oscar Zuniga
Subject: RE: Pietenpol-List: Tach cable lubrication?Matt Paxton & group, Congratulations on getting your registration and making progress on your Pietenpolproject. You've hung in there--way to go. On New Year's Day, 2000 a few of us wanted to see if our airplanes were Y2K compliantand decided to go flying to make sure. The OAT was 8F with sunny skies and about 2" of fresh snow on the ground. Afterpreheating a few planes (Cub, Piet, J-2)we all flew for a few minutes around the pattern. On climb-out my tach went from2200 rpm to zero but thankfully the enginewas running like a charm. My tach cable broke in the sheath so upon orderinga new cable (thanks to ASS's (Aircraft Spruce & Specialty)Lake Havasu, AZ facility it only took weeks and weeks and phone calls and morephone calls to get my replacement to arrive via Pony Express, steam train, wagon train, and carrier piegeons) I lubricatedit with Amzoil synthetic grease and so far it hasworked like a charm though I've not tested it at temperatures below about 45 Fsince that fine day in 2000. (younger and dumber then) (now older, still dumb) Mike C. ________________________________________________________________________________
Subject: RE: Pietenpol-List: Tach cable lubrication?Matt Paxton & group, Congratulations on getting your registration and making progress on your Pietenpolproject. You've hung in there--way to go. On New Year's Day, 2000 a few of us wanted to see if our airplanes were Y2K compliantand decided to go flying to make sure. The OAT was 8F with sunny skies and about 2" of fresh snow on the ground. Afterpreheating a few planes (Cub, Piet, J-2)we all flew for a few minutes around the pattern. On climb-out my tach went from2200 rpm to zero but thankfully the enginewas running like a charm. My tach cable broke in the sheath so upon orderinga new cable (thanks to ASS's (Aircraft Spruce & Specialty)Lake Havasu, AZ facility it only took weeks and weeks and phone calls and morephone calls to get my replacement to arrive via Pony Express, steam train, wagon train, and carrier piegeons) I lubricatedit with Amzoil synthetic grease and so far it hasworked like a charm though I've not tested it at temperatures below about 45 Fsince that fine day in 2000. (younger and dumber then) (now older, still dumb) Mike C. ________________________________________________________________________________