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From: <craig_bu@ameritech.net>
Craig,
I just finished installing my retract step and for what it is worth here are pictures of what I did and what I learned.
1) With respect to engineering design, novel and worthless can be synonymous
2) The factory cable guide did not work for me. I ordered a length of tubing and formed a new one using a coat hangar
as a template. Required three iterations.
3 My flap control rod passes very close to the bottom of the clearance hole in the landing gear box and there was not
room for the cable guide and the control rod to both reside at the bottom portion of the hole in the landing gear box.
Therefore I had to force the cable guide to reside in the top of the hole in the landing gear box, thus the dedicated
hole through the fuselage for the cable guide.
4) If you need to support the cable guide on the inside of the landing gear box, I think that you will find a
conveniently located bolt close to the top of the thru hole in the landing gear box. You can easily make a bracket that
fits on this bolt and supports the cable guide as it passes through the top of the control rod hole in the landing gear
box.
5 Make sure that you have room between your top wing root fairing and the cable guide. Also watch when you have the
step fully retracted that the cable attachment on the step does not hit the step latch mechanism when you have the step
fully retracted.
This should not be construed as the gospel, merely an observation of what appears to be working for me.
Craig Burgess
IV-PT
60% done and they haven't broken me yet
> Does anyone have any good photos or advice as to how one is to route the cable for the retractable step
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