That is the second version of the Baron handle, with the injection-molded grip. The originals had a hand-cut nylon grip. I used those for a long time, but the hard-point type gives better control feel.
I am sure you know this, but for others, any sort of cable handle like this, you need to push the cable back through the hole and inspect it before every flying session, because the cable is notorious for breaking with fatigue - usually where it makes the turn from the clamp to the slider, but sometimes where it comes out of the slider. Heavy cable tends to be much more prone to failure in the curve, thinner cable breaks at the exit of the slider.
Brett
When it comes to cable for handles, there's cable, then there's cable and then there is cable!! In making my own adjustable handles over the years, I have tried all sorts of different cable, and found that it does vary quite a bit. I have settled pretty much on bicycle control cables, and even those can vary quite a bit in how flexible they are. I like cable that is 1/16" in diameter and as flexible as possible and no coating of any kind. Since I have been using this type of cable I have never seen any of mine start to loose strands like some other "control cable" types that I have used. When I see that I change it out. In the past year or so, I saw Mark Hughes loose a model to handle cable breaking. It was some stuff he acquired from some one else, but it was that small diameter cable with a green plastic coating that Windy used to sell, I think. It was being used on Mark's old red Macchi that he had taken off the wall out of necessity and we worked on trimming it out and fixed the flaws that caused him to hang it up 20 years ago. On it's last flight, Mark pulled inverted on the reverse wing over and the down line broke, then almost immediately, the up line got loaded and it broke. The result was spectacular but depressing! Both cables had broken right at the slider. The cable had been fraying but couldn't be seen because it was contained by the green coating. Needless to say that the rest of the cable like that he had went away, and so did any that I had in my stash. Having it in the open like it is on these types of handles makes it really easy to take a quick check on them. hard point handles eliminate that, but I'm still experimenting with those to see how I like them. I have a handle and lines for every operable model I own, so doing a whole sale change over could get time consuming and expensive! But I am converting a lot of them over the straight up configuration instead of the bias type like I have been using since forever. As I have been getting using them and liking the straight up handle, every time I get another older model off the wall to fly it, I am finding I have to completely retrim the airplane and the change that handle to straight up style. I have figured out how to take the old biased handles and re work them into straight up style, so those won't go to waste. After After almost 30 years of flying stunt I think I may be finally getting a handle on handles!
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee
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