12 hours.<\/p>\n
That’s today and yesterday. \u00a0 Shelley helped me rivet on the cover plates to patch the holes in the hull I drilled in search of better antenna locations. \u00a0There were 3, total. \u00a0One down in the tail, one under the baggage floor, and the original one just forward of the spar under the EFIS. \u00a0 Since I had her in the plane, i was able to reinstall the transponder antenna properly; I’d taken it out to see if that hole might be a suitable location for the COMM antenna. \u00a0 It wasn’t. \u00a0 When we got that done, I went to work on putting the pax side floor back together. \u00a0Since I had access, I was able to wrap and secure all the cables going aft under the floor, and I can still access the antenna connection under the seat floor. \u00a0After that, I spent a lot of time with cable wrap, securing all the loose wiring running down the tailcone. \u00a0I took the advice of someone on VAF, who said something along the lines of “start at the tail and work your way forward, finishing everything you can possibly finish.” \u00a0 Practical matters preclude me from absolutely finishing the tail section right now, but everything else got done and done. \u00a0 I torqued down the autopilot pushrod bolts (been driving me crazy for a while), and secured all the wiring of the ELT and strobe pack. \u00a0The ELT wiring got secured with a length of shrink tube around the idiot DIN connection (phone cables and stereo connectors? \u00a0WTF, ACK Technologies?) \u00a0providing NMEA GPS info to the ELT.<\/p>\n
Alphabet soup, I know. \u00a0 We airplane people love our acronyms and abbreviations.<\/p>\n
I still have one or two loose ends: I need a special platenut to completely finish the baggage floor, but that should be here tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Today I started seeing the end of all the disassembling necessitated by having to wire the aircraft. \u00a0I got the flap actuator and flap motor put back in, but this time wired in properly with wires secured in the tunnel. \u00a0Lo and behold, I was also able to install the flap arm covers in the baggage compartment, something that hasn’t happened since the interior was painted. \u00a0 \u00a0I also cable-wrapped the cables running forward of the spar past the fuel lines and locked those down with cable stays, so nothing’s rubbing on anything.<\/p>\n
I also began work on reintegrating the control system on the sticks. \u00a0 A while back, before I knew what I was doing, I overstretched my trim springs and had to get new ones. \u00a0 I’ve since gotten them, and was working on getting the sticks all back in order. \u00a0 I had to paint the steel connectors for the springs, so that stopped while the paint is drying. \u00a0I started futzing around with the hard fuel lines on the floor, but didn’t really get anywhere.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow I should be able to finish the sticks and see if I can’t get the fuel lines secured (they need a couple of Adel clamps to keep them from vibrating too much) and install the fuel pump permanently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
12 hours. That’s today and yesterday. \u00a0 Shelley helped me rivet on the cover plates to patch the holes in the hull I drilled in search of better antenna locations. \u00a0There were 3, total. \u00a0One down in the tail, one under the baggage floor, and the original one just forward of the spar under the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[14,19,49,26,28,36,46],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}