Life has been obscenely busy again... Working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Fortunately, I managed to take some of the long weekend off to get the plane prepped (I am taking it to Skyworx on Saturday for painting).
Among the bits and pieces I finished - complete with cr@ppy cell phone camera shots are:
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Nylon mounting plate for headset jacks. A simple nylon sheet, backed with an aluminium L for a local ground, as well as cable support. The nylon plate gets bolted into a hole in the baggage compartment floor, and isolates the jacks from the fuselage, to prevent ground loops.
'Rubber' boots for the nose wheel steering push rods. This is an interesting composite that I had never heard of before reading about it in Kitplanes. Basically take some heavy fiberglass cloth, and thoroughly rub red (high temperature) silicon in (until the back side of the cloth is thoroughly wetted). Then lay it over a bold, with a decent overlap.
Once it cures, you end up with a very flexible, incredibly tough 'rubber' boot.
I initially made the mold too short (misjudged how close the end fittings come to the firewall, so I had to add an extension to the top. Looks ugly, but won't be visible
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And the servo mount. The third iteration thereof. Difficult to make something that can take 5kg of force pushing on the servo, and distribute it evenly through the base plate, but still provide vibration isolation. This one seems to do the job, although it needs more testing.
Will hopefully pick up the last (they damn well better be the last!!!) engine spares when I am in the US, and assemble the motor when I get back.
I always say the plane is 3 months from flying, but this time I mean it!
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