<VV> Re: White Pushrod Tubes

[James Davis]

It is marketed as Lizardskin these days.  The price is about the same.
Jim Davis

>         Bob Coffin's suggestion about the RTV brought to mind a product
>developed for the F-14 to keep internal fires from burning out the cables
>and tubes to the flight controls.  The only name I ever heard it called
>was "Fire Ablative Compound"  It was white and rubbery, brush painted on
>to form a thick coating, maybe 1/16 inch.  You could paint it on a square
>of aluminum, lay it flat on your hand , and direct an acetylene flame
>against it for two or three minutes before it became uncomfortable.
>That was state of the art 20 years ago and cost somewhere in the
>neighborhood of a couple of Trumps and a Gates or two for an ounce.  It
>may have come down to a reasonable cost by now and would be ideal for the
>tubes no matter what your goal
>
> > > Ron <ronh@owt.com> wrote:To be worth anything, it has to be done in a
>lab with controlled conditions and calibrated instruments. Anything else
>is mostly speculation.