Extra Long Reach Pliers
The perfect tool for repairing that long, skinny fuselage.
I have a couple of long reach tools, but none long enough for what I was working on. I’ve had a need for something that could open and close and get way down in a fuse. Soooo… I needed to make something…
And there it is. It worked amazingly well. 45 minutes work — that I wish I had spent years ago when I was building (and repairing) a lot of planes. Here’s how I used it to repair an Aquila XL fuse.
’Til next month!
©2021 Tom Broeski
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