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I am looking to see if anybody on here has any info on an old spec for wire or a modern equivalent . The Spec. AN-00-W-429 seems to have been discontinued and purged from most record books that I can access. This wire is very similar to piano wire, but apparently is not heat treated after manufacture. The usage in this instance is the diagonal bracing between the spar posts on a two spar wing inside the wing. I found several references to the spec on older wooden aircraft from Beech, Piper, and a bowers fly baby, but nowhere does anybody say what it is, or if there is a modern equivalent. If anybody has a copy of this spec in an old archive and is willing to share, I would much appreciate it. The aircraft in this case is pre WW2.
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I'd suggest asking Berkshire - but I see that might be a problem.

This page mentions AN-QQ-W-429, WIRE; STEEL, HIGH-STRENGTH, ZINC-COATED, 1938 Edition, December 12, 1938, so the right age.

Suggests AN-L-25, but that seems to be a lamp spec, so dead end there.
 
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3D Dave,
Ok I will come clean, this is for a Schweizer 1-19 and I know that you restored and used to own one at Blairstown, what I am after, Is the tensile strength and ductility of this wire, Is there any chance you kept a bit of that wire? Or knew the spec for an equivalent?
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Not owned any plane that I could not lift with one hand, much less a Schweizer.
 
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erik3000,
Where did you find that in that book? Can you tell me what page? I have been digging through that book for 2 days now. Is it on one of the backwards facing pages? I must have skipped right over it.

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Mint Julep,
The national soaring museum is one place we already looked, also the Smithsonian, we have also been in contact with K&L aircraft now run by Kyle Sweitzer who has all of the manufacturing rights to the Sweitzer line of Gliders and Sailplanes, they are now also the source for all spare parts for Sweitzer gliders ( Except this one.), as of this date we now have the tensile strength of the material, I still do not know what the material is except that it is a 1000 series carbon steel and apparently a cold drawn unannealed wire, close to piano wire.
I have three aircraft in that museum that I either helped build or assisted in repair or refurbishment, and one of them The C70 is where my handle comes from.
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For the application I can't imagine a modern, even much stronger, wire to be a technical problem.

If loads have reached yield of the original then things are already very bad I'd think.

However I understand the analysis and paperwork would be a challenge to support this.

Are you planning to restore this aircraft to flying condition, or just display?
 
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Mint Julep,
That is the major crux of this problem, the aircraft is being restored to flying condition.
If it was for display I would just put bicycle spokes in there and call it good enough, they are about the same strength and have a threaded with a nut for adjustment.
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The Schweizer 2-22 looks to share a lot of design features with the 1-19. Designed and built in the same general time period.

Does K&L have info or parts for the 2-22?
 
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DANG this is an A**-kicker. for what this is worth...

QQ-W-428 WIRE, STEEL, HIGH CARBON, ROUND, UNCOATED FOR MECHANICAL SPRINGS, (GENERAL PURPOSE) [available, non-current] appears to have similarity with QQ-W-429... except for the finish.

Also...
AMS-QQ-W-428/1 Wire, Steel, High Carbon, Round, Type I [NC] replaced by ASTM A229 Standard Specification for Steel Wire, Quenched and Tempered for
Mechanical Springs
and...
AMS-QQ-W-428/2 Wire, Steel, High Carbon, Round, Type III [NC] replaced by ASTM A227 Standard Specification for Steel Wire, Cold-Drawn for Mechanical
Springs

I even checked ANC-5a Circa 1949... no-go.

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Mint Julep,
The 2-22 uses a single spar D tube construction, a completely different design. And yes K&L has 90% of the parts and 100% of the drawings for all 5 models of the 2-22 before it was superseded by the 2-33.
WKTaylor (Aeronautics)14 May 21 21:13 said it right.
"DANG this is an A**-kicker. for what this is worth...." So as of today we have circled all around this thing we have specs that are close but nowhere do I see a notation that AN-00-W-429 has been superseded by any spec except AN L25 which has a note that it too has been superseded. So it would appear that QQ- W-429 is a continuation spec for AN 00-W-429. But nowhere can I find any notation linking the two.
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I think the 00/OO is a typo of QQ and not a separate specification. Are there any other AN-00 / AN-OO specifications?
 
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3DDave said:
Are there any other AN-00 / AN-OO specifications?
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If you dig into the 1930's specifications they use other letters where we would expect QQ.



Probably not helpful but ...
I am wondering if the wire strength is actually the same as the stainless wires, I say this because
[ul]
[li]makes sense if one is marketing a cheaper alternative, which i guess it was (might also mean there was a patent for it)[/li]
[li]nominal section max allowable stress appears higher than the stainless wire nominal stresses[/li]
[li]looking in my copy of Niles & Newell (Vol 1, 2nd ed, pub 193?) at wires and cables strength table, the only strength they have listed is for hard wires plus the usual flexible cable data (so either it likely wire was uncommon or interchangeable).[/li]
[/ul]

Also for the pack rats there is ANC5 1940ed here, nothing useful to this discussion unfortunately


Anybody check a copy of a 1930's edition of KD Wood
 
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