{"id":10932,"date":"2016-04-16T17:38:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T16:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10932"},"modified":"2016-04-16T17:40:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T16:40:42","slug":"strobe-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/strobe-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Strobe Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s dull as I type this (about 6.00 pm local time) and the rain’s lightly falling, yet again, after a brief thunderstorm. That’s the third or fourth in recent days and I’m beginning to rue ever having criticised the weather forecasters as one way and another, even when it was sunny when they’d forecast rain, they all said that thunderstorms were on the way. And I didn’t believe them.<\/p>\n

I dropped into Malbec earlier on at which time it was sunny with a bit of cloud and light wind, good flying conditions. But I more-than half-expected that a flight would be out of the question because of the state of the runway. And I was dead right, because it was much wetter than the last time I checked it, very soft and oozy in parts and even with some standing water in some areas.<\/p>\n

The problem is that we keep getting a bit of good ‘drying’ weather, as my mum used to say when talking about doing the washing, but that’s then followed by another torrential downpour that takes us right back to square one. Or beyond, actually, like today with the runway now wetter than it was a day or so ago.<\/p>\n

But I’d come prepared with the kit I needed to start work on ASY’s wingtip so I can fit the new strobe light bulb that arrived the other day, and that’s what I did instead. The first thing I did was clean the area with some acetone and I was pleasantly surprised at how tidy it came up. Although the strobe light bulb itself had been smashed, but fortunately not its clear plastic cover, the wingtip had not suffered any damage and this was confirmed when I cleaned the dark scuff marks off it that had come from the obstacle that I banged into.<\/p>\n

In fact, I found that not even very much covering paint had been lost and all that I had to do was fill up the areas that had been scraped away with a generous layer of special bare metal primer. It didn’t look very pretty afterwards, as the following picture shows, but after it’s had a day to harden, I’ll carefully rub the filled areas down and prepare them for the next stage.<\/p>\n

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I noticed when I pulled the strobe light’s connecting wiring out of the wing tip that by my interpretation, the connections were the wrong way round ie neutral was connected to brown and live to blue. However, it all depends on how whoever fitted the system connected the other ends – maybe they did the same with those too. But the strobes weren’t working and maybe this has something to do with it, but that’s something to look into at a later date.<\/p>\n

I must say, it was nice being able to work under cover in the barn – much better than trying to do things like this in the open-air. But it would be even better if the darn weather would start to become warmer and dryer, the way it should be doing at this time of the year \ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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