I trimmed the bottom of the screen back to the rear edge of the pod on the passenger side so both sides matched and got the passenger door on without too many problems. I then did what I should have done before I started heaving and yanking the other door, which was drill through the pod and screen and insert a small pop rivet with washers both sides to pull the edge of the screen back onto the pod. Then the door cleared it and closed beautifully without coming anywhere near to catching it.
What an idiot I am – if I’d done that originally I wouldn’t have damaged the other door. We certainly learn by our mistakes, don’t we – it’s a pity that some lessons are so painful and costly 😕
I phoned P & M to order a new door tube and Jim said they don’t have them any more. He said the best he could do would be to sell me a metre and a half of 1/2″ tubing which I’d have to bend up myself so I had to agree to that, but I’m not particularly looking forward to the prospect.
I gave the inside of the pod a good old vacuuming out because with all the drilling and trimming it really needed it. Then today I thought I’d knock out my radio interface. Looks like I was rather over-optimistic once again because it took me much longer than I anticipated and at the end of it all, it didn’t work. The intercom side of it worked OK and I could hear the radio through the headset but the PTT (push to talk) button that I made up was as dead as a Dodo. Obviously one of the connections is duff – and I thought I’d made a nice neat job too. I tried the PTT that came with the set up and that didn’t work either and I’m not really surprised because although the system didn’t have one to connect into the radio when I got it, it made sense that it should have done. The PTT lead was there but had been cut back and foolishly I stripped it out as it wasn’t being used when I was getting the system ready to be modified. So now I’ve had to order a length of multi-core cable and a 5 pin DIN plug to make up my own cable with a PTT connection from scratch.
So the week-end started and ended on a frustrating note and I just hope I don’t have too many more like it because time is marching on and the evenings are drawing in now, leaving much less time to get jobs done after the working day.
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You’re absolutely right, Tony, but it’s hard not to get a little despondent when it feels like everything I’ve done over several days seems to have gone wrong. And especially when a lot of it was down to my own stupidity as well. Must make a reminder to myself – slow down and think things right through before doing something that might be silly 😕
Roger, The one good thing about frustrating days, is that you feel so much better when the problem is finally solved! You have done well so far, not much further to go.