Cessna 182 1978 - Control Cable Wire Breakage and Corrosion Limitations

MODEL
182 & T182 SERIES
SERVICE MANUAL
1-14.
CONTROL
CABLE WIRE
BREAKAGE
as shown.
While rotating
cable, inspect
bent area for
AND CORROSION
LIMITATIONS.
broken
wires.
a.
Inspection of
Control Cables.
(b) Wire
breakage criteria
for cables in
1. Control
cable assemblies
are subject to a
flap, aileron, rudder,
and elevator systems
are as
variety
of environmental
conditions
and forms
of follows:
deterioration
that ultimately
may be easy
to recognize
(1)
Individual broken
wires are
acceptable
such as
wire/strand breakage,
or the not so readily
in primary and secondary
control
visible types
of deterioration
including
corrosion
cables at random
locations when
there
and/or
distortion. The following
information will aid
are
no more than six broken
wires in
in detecting
these cable conditions.
any
given ten-inch cable length.
2.
Broken Wire.
3. Corrosion.
(a) Examine
cables for broken
wires by
(a) Carefully
examine any
cable for
passing a cloth
along length of cable.
This will detect
corrosion that has a broken
wire in a section
not in
broken wires, if
cloth snags on cable. Critical
areas for contact
with wear-producing
airframe components
wire
breakage are those
sections of
cable which pass
such as
pulleys, fairleads,
rub blocks,
etc. It may be
through
fairleads, across
rub blocks, and
around
necessary to
remove and bend
cable to properly
inspect
pulleys.
If no snags are found,
then no further
it for internal strand
corrosion as this condition
is
inspection is required.
If snags are found or broken
usually not
evident on outer surface
of cable. Replace
wires are suspected,
then a more detailed
inspection is cable
if internal corrosion
is found. If a cable has
been
necessary
which requires that
the cables be bent in a
wiped clean of its corrosion-preventive
lubricant
and
loop to confirm
broken wires (refer to
figure 1-7). metal-brightened,
the cable
shall be examined closely
Loosen or remove
cable to
allow it to be bent
in a loop
for corrosion.
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