Sunday, December 31, 2006
Behind panel wiring, insulation.
Took a number of photos of the wiring behind the panel. These are primarily for future reference. There are 10 of them, only the first 3 shown here. I am having problems with my audio panel. The pins in the connector tend to push back when the panel is installed in the tray with the result that some pins do not make contact. I replaced the connectors when I was wiring the panel but I used the original pins. Now I'm wondering if there was a difference in the new connectors. I ordered new ones again, this time with pins. This is becoming a PITA. |  |
| Spent a good part of the day installing insulation on the firewall and sidewalls. Only part left is the firewall end of the tunnel. |  |
| I'm on the homestretch to getting the fuselage into the paint shop. |  |
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Cowling on
I finished mounting the firewall forward stuff and just had to try the newly painted cowling and spinner on for size. Now does this look good, or does this look good !
The good looking girl is my youngest daughter Helen. Sorry, phone number is not available.
I made custom brackets to hang the exhaust from cause I did not like the ones supplied ! Pictures when the cowling comes off....
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Landing gear fiasco
| A friend came over last night to check out a couple of things on the 10. He peered in between the spar parts and commented that there were a couple of bolts missing. Upon closer inspection, I discovered that I had missed installing two of the bottom bolts into the landing gear bracket. They were AN-15 bolts, and when I tried to install the bolts into the holes, they wouldn't go. The back bolts were interfering with them. In order to remove the one back bolt, I had to bend the flange on the floorboards back to access the nut. Both existing bolts and the two new bolts wrere bears to install and get nuts on. Had to get my 4 year old grandson to help me with one. He turned the bolt while I held the nut on with a wrench with tape on it to hold the nut. |  |
| Could not access the bolts between the spars without serious damage to my hands, so I had to get inventive. This is the mod I made to a wrench in order to ratchet the nuts on. |  |
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Temperature probes, blast tubes.
| Installed the EGT and CHT probes. I mounted the EGT probes 1 1/2" below the flange on each exhaust port. The #1 cylinder got the dual probe which connects to the Lasar mag controller. It's supposed to be the hot cylinder..so we'll see. |  |
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| Also installed the blast tubes for mags and alternator. I ran some 1/8 " aluminum wire down the inside of each tube and fastened it to the baffling beside the tube intake. This lets me direct the blast tube by bending the wire. Worked well on the two previous RV's I built. |  |
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Saturday, December 09, 2006
Control cables
| Installed the throttle, governer, and mixture cables. Between mounting the quadrant, and running the cables it took two days work. The cables could have been about an inch longer and it would have been much easier. |  |
| Feeding the cables through the firewall was fun, especially getting the fittings through the holes which already had the cables in them. I had to add another hole above the three holes which I drilled during the firewall construction. The middle hole did not get used so I covered the area with a layer of stasinless on the engine side, and a layer of .093 aluminum on the cockpit side. All held together by the three fittings the cables go through. |  |
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Friday, December 08, 2006
Throttle quadrant
Mounted the throttle quadrant today. I had previously thought I would use the throttle knob, as well as mixture and prop pitch. I had made a piece that mounted on the bottom edge of the panel. That meant that the mounting screws were in the wrong place. The panel is also non-standard in that it is about 3/4" lower than the original. This meant I had some work to do. I had to relocate the nutplates that mount the quadrant to the panel bottom, and I had to come up with a way to fix the forward end of the quadrant to the subpanel. |  |
| This photo shows how I mounted the quadrant to the sub panel. I used the original bracket since it was already mounted and had the nutplates installed. |  |
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Propeller !!!
| I picked up my prop from Western Propeller in Richmond BC this weekend. It is a thing of beauty. It also looks like the yellow on the prop is the same yellow as the plane. |  |
| Mounted the prop temporarily to fit the bottom cowl. The prop fits the flange in only 2 positions as I found out. It is a pain to do up the bolts cause the heads are in a slot and can only be tightened a little bit at a time in sequence. It's an even bigger pain taking them out again. |  |
| Putting the bottom cowl on with a 3 blade prop is a bear. The slot in the bottom needs to be extended forward about 6 inches. I made a filler to cover the slot in flight. |  |
Friday, December 01, 2006
Oil cooler shutoff modification
