Wire securement question

[Charles in SC]

I need to run wires to the rear of the fuse and am looking for ideas on how to secure them. The ways that are presenting themselves at this time are in no particular order:

1 Drill holes in the in the horozontal part of a longeron and attach to that.

2 Drill holes and attach to one of the stringers.

3 Tie to the elevator trim cable. I have manual trim.

4 Just lay them loose in the floor.

Any other ideas or thoughts are welcome.
Thanks!

[erich weaver]

I used zip ties along with the little plastic base plates for attachment points that you can get at any hardware store. Peel off the stickback stuff that comes on the baseplates and glue down with shoe goo or equivalent and they wont come off.

erich

[John Courte]

I'm going to wrap them all in spiral wrap and use the sticky-backed bases that use wire ties. If they come loose, i'll remove the adhesive backing and use proseal. I'm trying to avoid putting holes in my longerons, but I wish I'd discovered the sticky-backed things before I secured the static line to the left longeron with cable clamps and pop rivets.

[rzbill]

I decided I did not want to rely on adhesives and also wanted to be able to take a wire out without having to cut the end connector off (as you would with snap bushings). Went the old style way. I had a handful of right angle 8-32 nutplates (AN1033) that made it pretty easy.

[vlittle]

Here's an example of the tie-wrap base:



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[Bob Axsom]

Originally Posted by rzbill

I decided I did not want to rely on adhesives and also wanted to be able to take a wire out without having to cut the end connector off (as you would with snap bushings). Went the old style way. I had a handful of right angle 8-32 nutplates (AN1033) that made it pretty easy.

Oh my, this is beautiful. I used the same string tie, angle bracket, #8 fastener hardware and MS21919DG clamp method with different routing.

Bob Axsom

[rv8ch]

I also used Adel clamps - it was fun getting in there installing them, but I know they won't come off. I tried some plastic things with sticky tape on them and prepared the surface well, and some continued to stick, and some came off. I lost confidence in them, and I don't want anything coming loose back there.

[Richard Connell]

The ty-wrap bases are useless with the supplied peel back adhesive.
Mine all came unstuck too.
I went with a similar base, but used 3M VHB double sided tape to stick it down.
That stuff will never let go.

[az_gila]

These work well - use the #6 size with a LP4-3 pop rivet.



http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalo...tiemounts1.php

No need to rely on sticky pads that fail in hot temperatures.

[JonJay]

Originally Posted by az_gila

These work well - use the #6 size with a LP4-3 pop rivet.



http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalo...tiemounts1.php

No need to rely on sticky pads that fail in hot temperatures.

They work very well. I used a #8 screw and nylon lock nut but that is probably overkill. I didnt think to pop rivet and would do that if I was going to do this again.