Author Topic: Leadout Guide question (Read 925 times)

Randy Powell · « **on:** February 13, 2009, 08:23:28 PM »

OK, I'm thinking of using a plug in, interference sort of leadout guide. What do you use for eyelets and where do you get them?

For that matter, where do you get the eyelets used on leadouts/flying lines?

John Miller · « **Reply #1 on:** February 13, 2009, 08:57:22 PM »

Eric at RSM

Bob Furr · « **Reply #2 on:** February 28, 2009, 12:37:04 PM »

Last I knew you could also get them from SIG and brodak.
Bob Furr

Jim Oliver · « **Reply #3 on:** February 28, 2009, 01:17:43 PM »

Bob,

As I understand it, eyelets are the tubular pieces------
the "other things" are called, by some, "thimbles" (but they don't look like the ones my Momma used.), look sorta like little brass rings.

Brodak has small, medium and large; http://www.brodak.com/shop_productdetail.php?ProductID=7781

Cheers,
Jim

Geoff Goodworth · « **Reply #4 on:** March 01, 2009, 12:04:13 AM »

What about 1/8" pop rivets with the mandrel knocked out?

A bag of 100 bought for a job around the house cost less than a packet of four SIG things from the local hobby shop.

Cheers, Geoff

Al Rabe · « **Reply #5 on:** March 01, 2009, 06:45:48 AM »

On my Snaggletooth II Mustang I used Tom Morris leadout guides which I had Tom make for me with 3/4" spacing of the eyelets. after about 500 flights I observed that the leadouts had worn completely through the side of the eyelet's thin metal. Always before Tom's ready made guide, and since, I used and use now brass tubing which held up for 2200 flights on the original Snaggletooth and is still serviceable.

Al

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