November 4, 2005

Today the prop arrived! I didn’t make it to the hangar in time to meet the delivery, but luckily for me, Cameron was there to let the truck in to the hangars. I got there eventually though, and started unwrapping everything! Here it is, inthe box. It was a giant triangular box! It was very well packed.

The spinner was in it’s own separate box. Here I put the spinner on so you can get an idea of what we’re gonna look like! Oooooooooo…..

Once this was all done, I wanted to set about finishing up the firewall stuff. I ordered some ANL current limiters from B & C the other day, and I have now got them. I’ll take some pics and post them soon. I was too caught up in the propeller today to take pics of the other stuff! I made a doubler plate for the current limiters, and got Cameron to help me rivet it on the firewall. This was quite tricky with the engine mount in the way, but we managed it in the end.

Pic of current limiter doubler here…..

Then we figured out the governor. I had to find the right dtuds for it first off. Unfortunately, I’d used them for thr throttle body! Doh! They were hell to get out too, but I got ’em eventually. Worse still, they wouldn’t thread into the prop governor adapter hardly before they got too tight to turn. I ended up chasing the threads with a 5?16"-18 die. Once I’d done that, they went in much better.

This was all we had time for tonight, as I had to go out to a wine tasting dinner with Lucy. I left the engine hanging from the cherry picker (propped up with a 2x4) for the night. Hopefully, tomorrow I’ll be allowed to go to the hangar to do some more! I wanna get the engine on for good, and the prop on to see how it looks!