November 6, 2005

While we were mucking about with the cowling top, I decided now would be a good time drill the firewall flange across the top of the nose. I drilled, Steve cleco’d.

Then we went off on a tangent and started working inside the plane again. We made the contraption to hold the flap sensor. I gave the project to Steve. I laid out what we needed on a ’napkin’, and sent him off to make it. He did OK after a couple of tries! Here he is concentrating on juglling a part, a square and a pen with only two hands and a stomach. We always keep the BFH handy in the background there for temper flare ups… It’s a great tool for smacking things when it all goes wrong! The beer in the foreground helps with keeping the lines straight.

Here it is almost ready to mount…

The hinge design is probably a little over the top for something like this, but it gave Steve something interesting to do for a while. Pus, it works nice, is easily removable and will be geometrically better. Here it is in situ… All we need now is a means to connect the thing to the flap actuator. Hobby shop was closed when we zipped by there today. We missed it by about 20 minutes.

The outside…