Is this old news?

[steven yampolsky]

I just did a search on Horizon Hobby for  "Control line" and found that they are making not one but TWO different CL handles!

http://www.horizonhobby.com/products/control-line-handle-adjustable-EFLA170
and
http://www.horizonhobby.com/products/control-line-handle-cl-pt-19-arf-HAN0109

[Clint Ormosen]

It's news to me. Thanks.

[Mike Lauerman]

Nice hardware on the first one, wonder if the cables are independent of each other? (thumb nuts suggest they are)
Is the material 'plastic'? 

The second one is nice and simple, nice wood work. (could be 'custom-finished', and the terminations improved)

Looks like excellent value.

[Brett Buck]

I just did a search on Horizon Hobby for  "Control line" and found that they are making not one but TWO different CL handles!

http://www.horizonhobby.com/products/control-line-handle-adjustable-EFLA170
and
http://www.horizonhobby.com/products/control-line-handle-cl-pt-19-arf-HAN0109

   I think there were a few threads on these when the first came out a few years ago. The top one scares me a bit.

     Brett

[Randy Cuberly]

   I think there were a few threads on these when the first came out a few years ago. The top one scares me a bit.

     Brett

Yeah, the top one scares me a lot.  Especially the suggestion that those fishing clips would be adequate.The sections across the handle where the thumb wheels rest seem small to have the necessary strength to maintain load and abuse over time.

Nice idea for the adjustment, but looks a little weak structurally.

Randy Cuberly

[Tim Wescott]

I think they were made for the two PT-19's that Horizon sells (sold?).  They're pretty, but every plane that I've built or been gifted has required messing around with the handle spacing.

[Mark Scarborough]

I think they were made for the two PT-19's that Horizon sells (sold?).  They're pretty, but every plane that I've built or been gifted has required messing around with the handle spacing.

you WERE listening,, wow, 

[Steve Helmick]

They have a good little tachometer too, Tim...

[Avaiojet]

I have that top handle.

Scares me too.

Scares me so much I'm going to retro-fit the thing with hard spots.

I'll also eliminate that adjustment device.

My local HS had a few of them.

Here's what I got.

The good, the bad, the ugly, the old, the new, and throw that one away. 

Charles

[Dan McEntee]

  OK Chuck I gotta ask, if that handle scares you so much and you don't like it, why did you buy it? Seems a waste of money even if you got it at a discount and you have to do all that work to modify it. Sixteen bucks is more than half way to a decent digital scale, and between that and the gas money you burn driving to the post office to weigh stuff, you could have bought two scales by now. And this handle could be considered a hard point handle already, just need the proper clips. And you might need the adjusters also. You'll never wear them out.
   Type at you later,
    Dan McEntee

[YakNine]

I have looked at these before but unfortunately no longer have a local hobby shop that stocks cl airplane stuff its all special order and you have to wait for them to place a stock order. The large EZ Just fits my big bear paws just about perfect so I am probably eventually going to get a Reyco from Brodak's. I was thinking about ordering one anyway  and if its to small my daughter can probably use it her hand fits a hot rock real well. T.J.

[Bill Little]

I have looked at these before but unfortunately no longer have a local hobby shop that stocks cl airplane stuff its all special order and you have to wait for them to place a stock order. The large EZ Just fits my big bear paws just about perfect so I am probably eventually going to get a Reyco from Brodak's. I was thinking about ordering one anyway  and if its to small my daughter can probably use it her hand fits a hot rock real well. T.J.

Hi TJ,

Have you tried a hard point handle yet?  I wasn't all that sold until I actually used one, now I want to replace ALL my handles with hard point ones.

BIG Bear
RNMM/AMM

[YakNine]

Hey Bill,I have been thinking about a Reyco hard point and a clip bender from Lee Machine. I have been using a Sullivan and an Ez-Just . I am a crane inspector/mechanic as part of my job at the rail road and went to school about wire rope so I check my cables often but one of the things that you learn is cables break on the inside as well, but that is usually from corrosion. Fraying, improper termination and kinks are what we have to deal with . A hard point handle sure would take some of the unknowns out of the equation. T.J. PS. How have you been feeling , I haven't heard from you in a while.

[phil c]

I think they were made for the two PT-19's that Horizon sells (sold?).  They're pretty, but every plane that I've built or been gifted has required messing around with the handle spacing.

The top handle would be quite nice if you added a flat plate, say 1/16 in. steel x 1/2 in. wide  with mulitple holes in it for hard points.  I'd put monoline buttons on it and use a slightly large line loop, ~1/2 in. diameter, formed into a tapered loop.