{"id":11943,"date":"2016-09-27T21:36:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T20:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=11943"},"modified":"2016-09-27T22:10:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T21:10:25","slug":"very-frustrating-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/very-frustrating-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Very frustrating – again"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve just had another two very frustrating days. Yesterday wasn’t helped by our yet again losing our phone and internet for the whole day. This is getting a bit much because, of course, there’s never any suggestion that we might be refunded for the umpteen days (and evenings) worth of service that we’re not getting. I just hope that the ‘fast internet’ that we’re supposed to be getting at the end of it all turns out to be worth it.<\/p>\n

I’d also hoped that the electrical parts that I’d ordered at the end of last week might arrive so I could press on and rectify the damage done to 28AAD’s engine, but they arrived neither yesterday nor today. There was a consolation prize however, or so I thought, because the fuel hose that I ordered on 6th September did finally show up yesterday and that meant that I could install the fuel system from the tanks up to the fuel tap in the pod at least, and this would in turn allow me to fit 28AAD’s rear fuselage cover.<\/p>\n

So that’s what I got cracking on doing. But no, it was definitely going to be one of those days. I’d ordered fuel hose with 6mm internal diameter from a good UK supplier and I didn’t bother looking too closely at it before I started work. The first task anyway was to use the existing tubing that 28AAD’s former owner had left connected to the tanks together with a clear plastic fuel filter and a fuel tap, to make a connection from both tanks running to a ‘T’ piece and then on to the filter, which I wanted to position in the cabin between the seats.<\/p>\n

This was quite soon done and then I fitted a length of the new hose running from the filter under the left hand seat to the fuel tap (I used MYRO’s old one) positioned low down on the cabin side tube where MYRO’s fuel pump used to be. It was when I came to fit another ‘T’ piece and a non-return valve that I realised that the joints were going to be too slack to pull up with the usual hose clips, and that made me look more closely at the hose that had arrived that morning.<\/p>\n

It was 5\/16″ diameter. I had ordered 6mm hose, equating to 1\/4″, so the hose that had arrived that morning was incorrect and of too large a diameter for most of the fittings I wanted to use. I was very annoyed as I’d purposely spent a day a couple of weeks or so ago ordering the stuff that I was going to need in good time, so this was a real let-down. Ordering on the internet allowed me to avoid all of the problems of wasting time driving around looking for suppliers with the usual hassles of then finding that they’re out of stock of what you want, and now I was being plunged right back into it all.<\/p>\n

I dashed off an email to the supplier, which wasn’t that easy as we had no internet all day and I had to tether a slow connection through my phone to do it, and to their credit, the supplier told me by return that they would refund me in full and to keep the hose. But that didn’t help me very much to solve the supply problem with which I was now presented. While I thought about it, I looked at rerouting one of 28AAD’s brake cables that I’d inadvertently fed the wrong side of a fuselage tube when I did the landing gear repair, and I succeeded in doing that, replacing the cable in the process with one of 77ASY’s old ones. So the day at least ended up not being a total loss.<\/p>\n

But that still left me with my fuel hose problem. To cut a long story short, today I dropped into Savimat Claas, the agricultural depot on the way to Montignac, and they said that yes, they did stock 6mm fuel hose. ‘Miracle of miracles’, I thought, but I was being too hasty. I wanted 5 metres and whereas they had oodles of rolls of every other size, they only had 2 metres of 6mm. ‘We have lots of 5.5mm’ the salesman helpfully suggested, but it looked a bit small and I wasn’t convinced that it’d fit, but I took a small sample to try anyway.<\/p>\n

I tried two more potential local suppliers as I didn’t really feel like dragging all the way to P\u00e9rigueux and beyond, but to my joy I found that with the 6mm hose that I already had, I could get by with the 2 metres that Savimat had on the shelf plus a further 2 metres of their 5.5mm that I could use for connecting my fuel pressure gauge. So back I went to do the deal.<\/p>\n

I didn’t ask what price it was going to be, although I knew that it would be more than what I’d originally paid for the 5 metres that were shipped from the UK (around 25\u20ac in total including delivery). However, I thought that it would be worth paying a bit extra to avoid all the time and hassle involved in driving around looking for another supplier.<\/p>\n

But there was no way that I ever expected that I’d end up paying just over 79\u20ac for 4 metres of fuel hose and 10 hose clips! The hose was charged at over 14\u20ac\/metre which was scandalous and there’s no way that you’ll ever find me going back through the doors of Savimat to buy anything in the future.<\/p>\n

By the time that I’d sorted all this out, there was no time left today to become involved in any substantive work on 28AAD. So I decided that in that case, I’d just get out its fuselage rear cover and place it into position so I could at least give myself the idea that I’d achieved something. Here are a few shots that I took with it on.<\/p>\n

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I think it will look great when it’s fitted properly and tensioned up as it’s supposed to be. I had been thinking that whoever fitted the cover previously had put too much padding on the cabin rear tubes and this was confirmed when I found it impossible to make the Velcros on the side tubes meet up when they were wrapped around, so the next job will be to remove it. It’s at times like this that having already done the work on MYRO is such a help in making decisions and knowing what’s right.<\/p>\n

And when I do the work, I just hope that things run more smoothly than they have over the last couple of days \ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve just had another two very frustrating days. Yesterday wasn’t helped by our yet again losing our phone and internet for the whole day. This is getting a bit much because, of course, there’s never any suggestion that we might be refunded for the umpteen days (and evenings) worth of service that we’re not getting. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11943"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11968,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11943\/revisions\/11968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}