MYRO work finished!

Well, to all intents and purposes, anyway. There will always be the odd job that will need doing, but all of the major work that I wanted to do at home has now been completed.

I popped out first thing to buy the parts that I needed from a car accessory shop to join the rubber tubes that connect the two tanks. I was very pleased to find exactly what I wanted and in no time at all, the job was done. Here’s how it looked.

Quite tidy eh? 😉

There is an area of Ultralam around and under the fuel filler cap that over the years has been affected by spillage of fuel. This has resulted in the Ultralam surface lifting slightly from the underlying fabric and I had been wondering for some time how I should deal with it. In fact I already knew that to save mucking about, I’d cover it with some strips of that nice wide red gaffer tape that I have. So I did and it made a fine job too. The advantage is that the underlying surface is now fully protected against any further fuel spills and the elements and should I wish to replace the tape at any time, although it sticks like the proverbial 😆 it can be carefully removed without causing any damage.

Then I did a little more filing of the screen plastic around the fuselage tubes until I was totally happy that there is no contact and afterwards went around smoothing the cut edges of the plastic where necessary with some very fine wet-and-dry paper on a small wood block.

And that was it. Job done. Now all I have to do is remind Jeremy at LTS (who distributes Arplast props in the UK) that I still need the bolts for MYRO’s prop, get the tail plane back on and MYRO will be ready to go off to Linton. I was chatting to Bob on the phone today about that and he very kindly offered to help by towing the trailer and MYRO with his 4 x 4. This is a fantastic offer and I am so grateful as with the field being so wet, I wouldn’t be able to use my stepson’s estate for fear of bogging down and carving up the grass surface.

I can now see a light at the end of the tunnel and it really is so exciting after all the work I’ve done 😀