Flap and brake grips-finger grooves

[Bryan Cotton]

All,
Working WIX-C08, sport trainer controls. For the flap and brake levers, did you guys put in the optional finger grooves? Any thoughts on what you did and what you like?

[SonexN76ET]

Bryan, I bought some of the black grips and the red grips Sonex uses on their planes from McMaster Carr. They came in a set of ten each. I have several of each left over. Send me you address via PM and I will send you a black one and a red one, if you like. The soft grips are much better than gripping the raw aluminum.

Jake

[rizzz]

I have the standard left hand controls,
I did do the optional finger groves, easy to do wit a dermel tool.
I like the feel of the levers with the grooves.

[mike.smith]

I have the standard left hand controls,
I did do the optional finger groves, easy to do wit a dremel tool.
I like the feel of the levers with the grooves.

I did the same thing, and then covered the grip with Plasti Dip from Harbor Freight. Comes in several colors.
http://www.harborfreight.com/14-1-2-hal ... -2779.html
Flap handle is red, brake handle is black:
http://www.mykitlog.com/users/display_l ... 9854&row=1

[Bryan Cotton]

Thanks for the offer Jake, that is very kind! Michael and Mike, thanks for sharing your thoughts too. I like the finger groove idea as it suits my minimalist personality. I made some prototypes up out of scrap Luann ply, probably spent as much time in the setup as you guys took to have at both pieces with the dremel!

[Darick]

Bryan, I bought some of the black grips and the red grips Sonex uses on their planes from McMaster Carr. They came in a set of ten each. I have several of each left over. Send me you address via PM and I will send you a black one and a red one, if you like. The soft grips are much better than gripping the raw aluminum.

Jake

Jake, if you would consider departing with two more grips I would gladly reimburse you. I started on the fuselage this week.

[Bryan Cotton]

I figured out 2 things:
1) The pitch of the grooves should equal the pitch of your fingers
2) The diameter of the holesaw should equal the diameter of your fingers

Nice consistent grooves:


All smoothed out:


Now between page C07 and the supplemental hydraulic brake drawing I just have to figure out how to make the rest of it.

[SonexN76ET]

[quote="Darick"[/quote]

Jake, if you would consider departing with two more grips I would gladly reimburse you. I started on the fuselage this week.[/quote]

Darick, just let me know where you want them sent. You can send me a PM here on the site with the address.

Jake

[Rynoth]

Looks good Brian. I then dipped mine in plasti-dip (different color for each handle, several applications) to give them a rubbery grip.