At 12:41 PM 6-4-96 BST-1, you wrote:
>The carb end of the cable is just a bolt clamping the cable rigidly to
>the arm. As the arm moves through 90 deg. the cable is buckled out of
>line by at least +- 45 deg rel to the rigid horizontal input guide,
>significantly flexing the cable and adding wear at the sheath outlet.
>Have I got it wrong or are all the Rotaxes really flying like this ?
>After all the choke is provided with a rotating nipple to avoid this.
>
Graham, on the 912 in my present Lightwing, one of the clamps failed to
swivel smoothly until I sanded the lever a bit. Now fine. Must be clean and
oiled too!.
Peter
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