After running the hydraulic pipe to the side of the fuselage it’s covered with a protective sleeve to prevent the pipe from chaffing. I’ve chosen to use a spiral wrap similar to that used as a cable tidy but more substantial.

The tubing and wrap needs to be held in pace but a cable tie is likely to separate the wrap and clamp the pipe instead so I slipped some heat shrink tubing over the wrap so a cable tie holds the wrap and doesn’t clamp the pipework. Seems a good solution.

Anti crush inserts are added to the end of the pipes to stop the pipe collapsing when the nuts are tightened.

The nuts are tightened and a heat gun is used shrink the hear shrink. A cable tie is used just to prevent it moving.

Cable tie stand offs will be used to secure the pipe work onto the cabin floor. The holes are opened up with a 5mm drill first.

As I’ve said before, this job is very fiddly, you need several pairs of hands and there’s not a lot of space to manoeuvre!

But eventually it all comes together…

Installation of a cable tie stand off used to secure the pipework.

Looking at the pipe runs I found a couple of places where there is a chance of chaffing and possible pipe failure. I’ve secured a couple of pads over a sharp edge that should prevent failure in service.

A jubilant smile – it seems that this stage has taken ages to complete but Karen’s help today has really paid dividends.

The finished brake pipework in the cabin, just need to run the pipes to the brake callipers which i’ll do on Monday.