Binding at the handle?

[Paul Taylor]

I got a few flights before sunset today. I have been getting a little popping or clicking at the handle. I thought it was the line clips. I changed the clips at the handle and it seemed to help a little. I then tried tubing over the clips. But still today a few good pops. It's like on the outside loops of the vertical eights and hour glass.
Anyone experience this before. Plane does not seem to do anything weird.



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[Crist Rigotti]

I'd cut off the excess bolt length form each side of the handle.

[Paul Taylor]

Thanks Crist!
Will hack them off.

[Steve Helmick]

TED Handles don't do that!  Steve

[Dan McEntee]

  I agree with cutting the excess bolt length off, and the cable on the handle doesn't need to be that long either. I had similar experience with a handle on my Twister/Shark and finally figured out that it was the bolts twanging the cable. It was at that time also that I decided that the cable only needed to be long enough to allow for an inch or two of movement to attain a neutral control setting. The shorter length helps eliminate the chance of the line clips hitting each other.
  Type at you later,
    Dan McEntee

[Andrew Hathaway]

I had a few of those handles.  I didn't like the spongy feeling from the heavy cable, it'll flex differently at different times.  Also didn't much care for the overhang.  Flying with a Hot Rock felt better.  I made up a couple hard point Hot Rock knock offs and sold the Brodak handles on Ebay.  They're great for trimming, since they're so adjustable, but they're fairly rotten for flying the pattern consistently.

If I had to guess, I'd venture that the cable is pulling through the slider blocks during times of harder pull, and springing back when the tension lessens. 

[Larry Fernandez]

TED Handles don't do that!  Steve

Why bother wasting your breath.

Larry, Buttafucco Stunt team

[Paul Taylor]

Thanks guys.

Changes are coming. 

[Steve Helmick]

Why bother wasting your breath.

Larry, Buttafucco Stunt team

It's the price of the typing paper and correction fluid that really hurts.  Steve

[Paul Taylor]

Cut the bolts off. No popping at the handle!  Thanks guys!



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