Rain stopped play

Not quite, but almost.

By the time I’d done all the other little things I needed to for a Sunday it was 2.30-ish by the time I got out to the garage with a dull and threatening sky overhead. I pulled MYRO out, not too far luckily, and quickly whipped the exhaust silencer off to reposition the engine safety cable. After I’d done that I wanted to put the cylinder head air scoop on, so I grabbed it and gave it a good clean up. I couldn’t get the original colour back because, let’s face it, it’s been stuck up there in a pretty inhospitable environment exposed over the years to full sunlight (sunlight?) and a hot cylinder head. Even so, with a good rub over with turps followed by a polish with T-Cut I was amazed how bright and shiny it came up!

So I then clambered up on my small stepladders to begin fitting it and … you’ve guessed it … down came the rain. Only drizzle mind, but really heavy. I pushed MYRO back into the garage and tried to work inside but I couldn’t find my lead light and my large torch wasn’t bright enough. So after jumping around and cursing for a bit, I noticed the rain had stopped momentarily. Good game this – so out went MYRO again and on went the air scoop. Then I began to finish off all the cable-tying but before I could complete the job, down came the rain again. Really good game … back went MYRO but only under the opened garage door this time because now I could do the work under the shelter of the door. Hah!

So that was it – game over. I was very pleased with the way it turned out – by carefully cable-tying electrical wiring, fuel tubes and throttle and choke cables together I finished up with a neat arrangement that was also nice and firm so nothing could be chafed by vibration. You can see the finished article below.

The final job is securing the throttle cable to the cabin fuselage side tube so the throttle lever works but I had to leave that as I couldn’t open the door wide enough inside the garage to do the job. So next time I’ll have to do that and I’ll also have to sort through all the brackets etc for the tail assembly that I placed in order on the garage floor, where they have stayed since I removed them back in June. There are a few leaves and things on them now but they are all still there, laid out in order.

Amazing – only four months ago but it seems much longer. Not a bad Summer’s work I suppose, really 🙂