{"id":12301,"date":"2016-11-14T22:31:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T22:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12301"},"modified":"2016-11-14T22:31:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T22:31:29","slug":"back-on-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/back-on-the-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Back on the job"},"content":{"rendered":"

The most important one that is, namely the repair of the Savannah’s screen. It was way back in August that the damage was caused by a fuel spillage and weeks ago that I removed the damaged screen and prepared the aircraft for a replacement to be fitted.<\/p>\n

However, the repair was then delayed when material that I’d ordered from the UK to cover its panel top with got as far as Brive but then sat in the depot there for more than two weeks because the delivery company, the thoroughly useless DPD-Chronopost, decided that they couldn’t be bothered to deliver it.<\/p>\n

So I then had to turn my attention back to reassembling 28AAD, my French Weedhopper, to avoid having it standing outside for another winter and that forced me to put the Savannah work onto the back-burner, much as I hated the idea.<\/p>\n

But now the time has come to complete the work because the Savannah has been unflyable all this time and its cabin open to the air with just a sheet over where its windscreen should be, and the last thing I want is for that to start deteriorating when the weather turns more nasty. And not only that, but we are expecting what may be the last couple of warmish days this week, so it should be an ideal time to complete the work.<\/p>\n

I bought two alternative fabrics – one a foam-backed leatherette material and the other a black felt-type fabric of the type often found in car boots. I’ve decided to go for the former because I’ll be able to Velcro my navigation tablet to it without the risk of it falling off, so today’s job was to prepare the panel top for the glue that I’ll use to attach it and to make a ‘first cut’ of the material as a pattern. The supplier sent more than enough material for several attempts so I’ll hopefully be able to get it right and make a nice job.<\/p>\n

Here are some shots of the first try.<\/p>\n

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The pics look better than the real thing and tomorrow I’ll cut another piece and hope that it’ll sit nicely on the panel top and snugly around the two tubes that rise up from the front to the top of the screen. Then I’ll go ahead and fit the screen as it’ll be easier to do that without the new panel top covering in place, and then stick the panel top material into position. <\/p>\n

With a bit of luck, I should be able to get the whole job finished in a couple of days which will make 77ASY flyable again, but I’ve decided that I’ll also need to order a new length of metal edge trim to finish it off properly as the one that’s on there currently is a bit messy and has been cut a tad too short. That can be fitted ‘at my leisure’ and shouldn’t take too long to be delivered in any case. Just so long as the supplier I choose doesn’t use DPD-Chronopost \ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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