Yes Nylon Lacing Tape preceeded Plastic tyraps
Yes Nylon Lacing Tape preceeded Plastic tyraps. I hope you understand I have had intense and long exposure to aerospace processes but I have never been a process engineer who worked to measure every performance parameter with any process and establish myself as a trusted expert for consultation. I have consulted with many such experts and been a party to many successes and failures and I have some unyielding positions on a vast array of these processes - right or wrong. In the business you have to take a position and make sure everything is done consistently to the highest standards of quality and reliability. I carry that into my airplane. Regardless of the pseudo scientific rationale supporting glued on tyrap anchors and tyraps (whatever brand name used) themselves they will never be found in my airplane unless the processes that I have admitted into my process tool kit won't work. Please don't take this as argumentative it is just my way and you asked for an opinion. As for coax cable runs along smooth inner skin surfaces, I found none that required support on such a surface. I made angle brackets in many cases with a plate nut and riveted them to bulkheads. The MS21919DG clamps containing the coax is mounted on the bracket with the standard screw, washer, clamp, bracket and platenut stackup. The coaxes in my plane are supported at bulkeads etc. Again it my not be process utopia but I don't care - in my plane I made all the installation decisions and I did not compromise my standards at any step in the eight years it took me to get it to where it is today. You should do the same but you asked about this glue on tyrap anchor process so I figure you must have a mild nagging discomfort with it. Everyone up to the point that I provided my response seems to feel that this is a great way to go - I don't and I thought you should know that not everyone feels that way. OK let me throw a few things at you then I have to go eat. Glue processes are demanding of process control and there is no objective evidence that a glue joint is perfectly reliable even with age controls, mix control, cure controls, surface preparation controls, cleanliness controls, process control lab testing/documentation and inspections (think foam on the external tank). Wife just called - got to go.
Bob Axsom