Rain, rain go away

This is the worst kind of weather to be working in outside – passing showers. Wim dropped in this morning as usual but had to leave early because Barbouze ran off when he heard my neighbour’s bird scarer go off. Luckily though, because he is a clever little dog, Wim found him waiting at the car where he usually leaves it, about 10 minutes away from my house! Anyway, after Wim had left I got cracking on 28AAD but soon had to cover it up again when the first shower came through.

And so it continued, so I didn’t get much done today, but what I did do represented useful progress, as shown below.

First I fitted the voltage regulator that I repaired yesterday and then MYRO’s old trim mechanism. 28AAD evidently used to have something similar from what I could see but it had been removed and the system modified to rely on just friction alone. I like this nice ‘clicky’, very positive version much more.

I then thought that I’d fit MYRO’s old cabin top plastic cover only to find that it had incurred a bit of damage on one corner. Being a bit of a perfectionist, there’s no way that I can use it, and 28AAD’s old one, apart from being a bit tatty, also has a large slot cut to take the clamp for the ballistic parachute that used to be fitted, so I can’t use that either. I’ll have to see if I have any ‘spare’ plastic that I can use to make a new one, but if not I’ll just have to order a little bit more.

Then I thought that I’d drop the panel temporarily into position and start connecting up a few cables. However, although I came across them just the other day, I just couldn’t find the special studs that I’ve always used to connect the two parts of MYRO’s panel together. I’ve obviously put them somewhere safe and I’m blowed if I can remember where, darn it! I just hope that I can find them tomorrow.

Anyway, in the meantime I need to fill all of the mounting holes in MYRO’s panel top with epoxy again, for what will be the second time. This is because none of the existing holes match those in 28AAD’s pod as they are always drilled at random by whoever did the original assembly. But anyway, no worries – just so long as in the meantime I can find the panel connecting studs 😐