Every little helps

I could only work on 28AAD, my French Weedhopper, this morning because I had other more pressing things to do in the afternoon. Nevertheless, I was able to make good use of the time available.

I wanted to remove the excess padding that someone had attached to the cabin rear vertical tubes because it was preventing the proper fitting of the fuselage rear cover. Although there had been none on MYRO’s cabin tubes, I thought that it would be a good idea to retain some, so I nipped up to Bricojem to buy three more lengths of their nice pipe insulation, but of two sizes smaller than I’d used for the other tubes.

It turned out to be dead right and made for a beautiful job when attached to the tubes, as the following image shows.

I then tested the fuselage cover to make sure that it fitted nicely and in doing so discovered that someone had made another little mistake, this time to do with the seat belts. The following shot shows the seat belts routed correctly.

What someone had done was route the outermost strap on each side OVER the white tubes below the ones that I had just put the new padding onto. This was incorrect, because the cover has to completely wrap UNDER the white tubes for tensioning eyelets in the cover to be connected with cord. With the straps in their original positions, this would have been impossible, so I do not know how the last person who fitted the cover had managed to do so. Not correctly, obviously.

Afterwards I had a bit of luck. Just as I was about to leave the house I heard a car horn sound, which turned out to be the Post with my new stator and voltage regulator. If I had not been there to sign for them, they would have been taken away and I’d have not got them until at least Monday, so that was very fortunate. And the weather will be good tomorrow, so with a bit of luck I’ll get 28AAD’s rear cover fitted and the electrical work done, which would be very good news indeed 🙂