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Last Modified 1st August 2001
1st July Still sanding. With everything back to a smooth finish I filled a couple of spots that I wasn't happy about with filler and on the rest of the items applied smooth prime where required.
2nd - 3rd July No building, working in Wellington
4th July My next order of connectors arrived so I continued with the wiring forward of the firewall.
5th July Still wiring.
6th July Another year older. No building today.
7th & 8th July Not a lot of building this weekend as I had work to do around the house. I did however carry on with the wiring when I could. I ran out of 5mm ring connectors so had to order some more. This plane eats 4mm, 5mm, 6mm and 8mm ring connectors. A dozen of each in red, blue and yellow at the start of the wiring process would have been useful.
9th July Dug out the primary panel and started terminating the wires. All of the grounds are being grouped and terminated in spade connectors for attachment to the instrument panel ground block on the main assembly. All inter panel connections and off panel connections are being terminated with mate-n-lock connectors.
10th - 13th July Kept annoying the family by taking over the breakfast bar when I got home from work to continue with the mail panel terminations.
14th July Only a bit of work on the plane today as I had real work to do. I cut out the aluminium parts for the two smaller panels and installed nut plates on the the panel housing for these.
July 15th Made up and fitted the bowden cable control for the ventilation firewall cutoff vent. The plate to hold the control duplicates the one on the port side of the tunnel that I fitted for the choke. The cable then penetrates the firewall and rises along the the side of the engine frame to loop back and terminate at a cablesafe held in place on an aluminium angle bracket. Care was taken to ensure that the cutoff shut firmly when the control was pushed in and was also able to open completely. This took a bit of readjusting of the angle on the bracket but eventually worked out fine.
Now that I have my Rite-Angle angle of attack indicator I needed a place to put the display panel. This consists of five LED's in a row with an accompanying light sensor to control the brillance. I decided to place these directly above the Microencoder which occupies centre top position in the panel but didn't like the fact that the Rite-Angle panel writing would then be sitting on its side. I made up a new panel, cutout the appropriate hole and mounted the AoA display. I then trial fitted the main panel and discovered that I had a small conflict between one of the ASI nut retaining plates and the main housing. This was resolved with a bit of filing but showed just how tight this instrument panel setup is.
July 16th -31st No building due to.... getting ready to travel, travelling, working in Toronto, travelling, working in Ottawa, travelling, playing at Oshkosh, travelling.
The wiring to date....
The front of the firewall is complete. Behind the firewall is still in rats nest configuration. Top centre is the TCU with AoA box on top and to the right of that is the engine sender termination box. Port and starboard ground panels are visible.
Top row holds map switch and sensor with the secondary fuses to the right. Next row holds the ambient and airbox sensors with overvoltage cutoff relays and secondary master to the right. In behind the capacitor is the alternator 30A fuse. On the base are secondary battery, smoothing cap and the two voltage regulators.
Coming in from the left are the main battery wire and starter wire. The starter relay comes next followed by the main 30A fuse and the main ground panel above that. The cabin air shutoff cable is visible in this picture.
