I have a 1964 235 and am in the midst of IFR training in it. All is very well except for the turn and a bank indicator's fuse holder is a tiny bit loose, just enough so it flags the TBI once in a while. When this happens, I just push in and twist a little harder and it unflags.
Trouble is, it can be fine for a flight of two, and then just flags at the worst time. It is an S-Tec TBI connected to an S-Tec 50 a/p, and the other day while under the hood and with the a/p engaged, the damn thing flagged and made the a/p lurch hard left while climbing. No big, I disengaged, unflagged the TBI and flew on to a decent VOR/DME approach.
Anyone have a trick for fixing this fuse holder, or are new ones the solution? A old timer at the airport said just stick a small wad of foil in there and it will tighten things up.
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Stick a piece of foil in it? Really?? Why would You want to risk the failure and aggrivation over a part as inexpensive as that one? I don't remember how much I paid but I replaced several last year and they were reasonable.
I thought about replacing the old glass fuses with CB's but decided that was best left for a time when I was up to doing all of them at once. getting the 337 approved to swap all of them would be as easy (If not easier) than for a single unit, but the depth of the CB's are different than the 2 different fuse holders in the 235's panel so the buss bar wouldn't connect without some weirdness. It would be nice to get that done though, The 235 even has a couple fuses behind the panel that can't be accessed easily or from the front. Dumb.....
