[RCSE] Vtail ball-link removal - best practices? Tools?

2004-12-22 Thread Lydon, Matthew (NBC Universal)








I have a couple of ships with removable v-tails, but usually
leave them on, as popping off the ball-link connectors is extremely difficult,
stressing components. How do you folks do it? Anyone know of a good plier-like
tool that gets the job done?



Matt








Re: [RCSE] Vtail ball-link removal - best practices? Tools?

2004-12-22 Thread Peter Jensen
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 11:08:21AM -0600, Lydon, Matthew (NBC Universal) wrote:
 I have a couple of ships with removable v-tails, but usually leave them on,
 as popping off the ball-link connectors is extremely difficult, stressing
 components. How do you folks do it? Anyone know of a good plier-like tool
 that gets the job done?

  I'm not sure I would be constantly stressing them myself, but for
travel and the like they're definitely removable.  I bought a set of
ball link pliers from a local hobby shop that have worked well for the
ball links on my helicopter -- there are many different varieties
available.  The helicopter folks always seem to have the best
selection -- here's a start:

http://www.helihobby.com/html/hand_tools.html 

-Peter

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