Day: August 29, 2011

At last! I finished off painting the trailing link and left it hanging up in my garage before dashing off over to Ken’s place. It was still a little bit breezy but the sun was quite warm when it came out through the gaps in the clouds, so I really couldn’t miss the opportunity to do the painting on the side tube.

And it all went well so when I left, MYRO was at last ready to have its pod put back on. I also took the opportunity to give the top plastic a bit of a clean and remove all of the rubbish that has built up under and around MYRO, so this is where I now am with the repair.

I should have the pod graphics by tomorrow and when I’ve put them on, the pod will be finished. This pod doesn’t have as many holes around its top to hold the panel and screen as MYRO’s original pod had and I want to make it more or less the same. I haven’t decided yet whether to temporarily fit the panel top before or after fitting the pod, so I can drill the extra holes. It’ll probably be best to do it with the pod fitted because then it will be held more rigidly than if it was just placed on the ground or my patio table. But in any case, before the pod goes on, I will need to do a lot of detail cleaning of tubes and nooks and crannies which are now filthy. I knew they were, but I especially noticed it today when I cleaned the top plastic which was thick with grime and came up sparkling again afterwards. Well, almost … 😉