{"id":12382,"date":"2016-11-26T12:07:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T12:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12382"},"modified":"2016-11-26T12:13:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T12:13:01","slug":"all-now-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/all-now-clear\/","title":{"rendered":"All now clear"},"content":{"rendered":"

As soon as you examine the rear of the Savannah’s little high level panel you understand why whoever ‘installed’ (and I use that word very loosely…) it butchered the front of the tray in which it’s mounted in the way that they did.<\/p>\n

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They thought that they’d go all ‘Airbus’ (once again) and mount switches on the left hand side with their associated circuit breakers above them. Only one problem. Height of switch plus circuit breaker is greater than panel height. So what do you do? Obvious innit – get out your tin snips and cut off the upper bar of the front of the tray in which the panel is mounted to provide the extra height you need.<\/p>\n

Ah… but there’s a 90\u00b0 angled length of aluminium attached to that which acts as a bracket that pop rivets holding the cabin roof panel are fixed into and if you do that you therefore lose a section of roof fixing. No problem! Only take out half of the tray top bar (on the side where the switches are) so the roof bracket is only half hanging off and when you offer up the panel front, put in two more pop rivets – one in each corner – through the panel front and the bracket. Then the panel front helps to support the cabin roof – OK, it’s not as strong and will prevent anyone else removing the panel front in the future, but hey, that’s their problem \ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n

Some people should not be allowed anywhere near an aircraft with a sharp tool in their hand. I’ll be able to repair the damage as previously mentioned by making up a complete false tray front onto which the roof bracket will be secured and the panel front mounted. However, I’ll have to redesign the panel layout so the switches and circuit breakers are mounted side-by-side rather than vertically, but that shouldn’t be too difficult with the useless fuel flow indicator out of the way.<\/p>\n

By the way – notice the loose washer that’s dropped off and fortunately been secured under a bodge up of washers used as spacers on the top left (in the above image) circuit breaker, necessary because the correct fittings had been lost. I ask you, a circuit breaker costs about 5\u20ac – someone decided not to replace the one whose fittings had been lost and ended up risking an electrical short as a result of the loose washer, in a multi-thousand euro aeroplane. How bloody stupid is that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As soon as you examine the rear of the Savannah’s little high level panel you understand why whoever ‘installed’ (and I use that word very loosely…) it butchered the front of the tray in which it’s mounted in the way that they did. They thought that they’d go all ‘Airbus’ (once again) and mount switches … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12382","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\/12382","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=12382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12385,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12382\/revisions\/12385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}