Zip-Tie Wrap Pushrod Keeper
| While putting together a new foamie, this reader realized that he had forgotten to pick up micro pushrod keeper at the hobby shop. Not wanting to make a 45-minute trip back for a $1.50 part, he scanned his workbench for an alternative. He found a plastic zip-tie, cut all except 1⁄2 inch off the strap and drilled a hole in the remaining stub about 1⁄8 inch from the cut end. He carefully drilled a hole thought the tie’s square end. The tricky part was drilling the hole parallel to the strap and keeping it near the top of the square. Then he used a sharp X-Acto blade to slot and notch the holes as shown, and his new micro pushrod keeper was ready to use.
David Wurzbach |
While putting together a new foamie, this reader realized that he had forgotten to pick up micro pushrod keeper at the hobby shop. Not wanting to make a 45-minute trip back for a $1.50 part, he scanned his workbench for an alternative. He found a plastic zip-tie, cut all except 1⁄2 inch off the strap and drilled a hole in the remaining stub about 1⁄8 inch from the cut end. He carefully drilled a hole...
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