Thank you! Decision made!
Thank you all for your thoughtful responses.
The primary purpose I posted this to begin with was to see if there was some real safety concern that was not obvious to me by leaving the wiring loops like that.
I do however have to confess that additional motivation to posting was to enjoy all the responses I would get, knowing full well the full range of answers I would get kind of amuses me.
The responses are indicative of the type of builders they are. There are folks that build show-planes, folks that enjoy the pursuit of creating a craft that has been safety engineered and executed to perfection, folks that don?t know what they don?t know and assume if they don?t know it couldn?t possibly be important, and then all the rest of us, who fall somewhere in between all of this. No offense meant to anyone, it just is what it is.
I definitely am not in the first two categories. Wish I were, but I?m not. What I am interested in however is a finished product that has a reasonably high level of build quality but to get it in the air while I?m still able to enjoy it for 10 or 20 years. That level, as many of you have pointed out, is a very personal decision that everyone has to make many times during the build. As this is my first build, I?ll not likely be hanging any ?Judge Me Please? signs on my prop at Oshkosh, but I do hope to take my family and friends flying and bring them back safely. It?ll look pretty nice too.
So having bored you with the above, having read all the posts, I have to say that I was still leaning toward leaving it. I?d likely not ever really think about it I thought. But then Gil?s page 3 post really made sense.
The ?reason? for bundling is to keep individual wires from vibrating and failing. Now THAT is sound reason that makes sense. Thank you very much Gil!
I can live with hidden ugly but not having wires fail. Stopping them from vibrating is a very different motivation than aesthetics, and can be far less work. That, makes sense.
I think I?ll try twisting the bundle up nice and tight and wrapping a couple of zip ties around it. If that doesn?t work out, I?ll bundle them up in smaller groups. It?ll still be fugly, but it?ll not vibrate.
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