Now the rudder cable path was through to the firewall I needed to get it sorted out from that ‘hot side’ to the pedals themselves.

After much bending I got the 2024-T3 conduit tubes to make a good shape both sides to direct the cable and conduit from the upper longerons to the rudder pedals.

I used hot glue to position them before I got the flox out.

You can see here we have a direct line to the pedals now.

After flox and two ply of BID just 1.5″ wide I felt that I had this direction changed nailed. On reflection, maybe I didn’t need all this strength and could have just tacked on some bare nylaflow tube. We will never know.

Not pretty but solid as a rock. I also had a slight bend inward to get the cable away from the fuselage wall. That’s probably why I went for the hard outer tubing, so I could get this direction without supporting the tube at the front ends.

With the rear and forward outer tubes in place I could lay out the nylaflow full length. Of course I roughed up the entire surface in preparation for floxing it in place.

The angle to the pedals worked out well.

I prepped the fuselage sides and had to dig in at the canopy latch and the hinge points on the right side too. That took a little grinding after a little thinking.

The cross members are to ensure the tubing is flush with the outer wall so my canopy screws can still go in.

All done and cured well. After a bit of clean up I thought more about the length adjuster and that required spring. What you see above is never going to happen. I need to think of something else.