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<\/a><\/p>\nAnd here’s a shot after I’d finished all of the wiring including connecting the strobes.<\/p>\n
I think that at least it’s a bit neater and tidier than what was there originally.<\/p>\n Anyway, it was after this point that the disaster occurred, although I didn’t realise that it had happened at the time. It was now time to refit the Savannah’s roof, a moment that I had been looking forward to for weeks. The roof contains a clear polycarbonate window that I was also replacing as part of the screen work.<\/p>\n The roof window is ‘the meat in the sandwich’ between the roof panel and the underlying roof framework and as the old one had been leaking, I thought that I’d mount the new one with a bead of silicone to prevent it from doing so. It was while I was delicately lining everything up at ground level and inserting the first row of pop rivets that I was distracted by someone turning up and engaging me in conversation.<\/p>\n What I didn’t realise was that in the process while I was talking, the window had moved. And I didn’t find out until the roof had been fully attached to the aircraft. It can’t stay the way it is and I’ve already drilled out the rivets holding in the window. The more I think about it, however, it’ll be easier to rectify the mistake by taking the whole roof panel off again and starting over.<\/p>\n That’ll unfortunately have to include cutting and drilling a new roof window, but luckily I still have enough plastic to do that. I’ve brought the old one home again to use as a pattern and I’m trying to decide whether to do that this evening or in the morning. As it’ll probably be a bit too cold to work over at Malbec first thing, I guess the morning will be the best time \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A classic case of seizing defeat from the jaws of victory. And it all started so well too. The first job today was to lift the roof panel back off again and finish off sorting out all the wiring. Mainly that included the wiring for the strobes but there were also a few other bits … 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-12422","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\/12422","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=12422"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12432,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12422\/revisions\/12432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n