{"id":13412,"date":"2018-03-05T17:36:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T17:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=13412"},"modified":"2018-03-05T21:31:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T21:31:40","slug":"3-out-of-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/3-out-of-3\/","title":{"rendered":"3 out of 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

I decided today that there would be no more pussy-footing around and that the stupid idea that I’d had to put a spacer behind the Savannah’s spinner back plate was precisely that. Stupid. I’d found an old prop hub among my stuff but it would have meant taking it to the local machine shop and getting it machined down and that would have involved a cost and also waiting.<\/p>\n

There was plenty of ‘meat’ still to grind off the back plate and although it would mean also taking the grinder to the base of the spinner itself, I decided that that was the way to go. So just before lunch I fired up my bench grinder and got stuck in.<\/p>\n

The amount that could be ground off was only limited by the heads of the screws securing the spinner to the back plate and on that basis there was more than enough that could be removed to give me the space that I needed between the spinner back plate and spinner and the engine cowling. I had to take great care, mind, but after half an hour or so, the job was done and looked good.<\/p>\n

Then I was off to the swamp, because that’s what the airfield and the hangar front entrance in particular, are beginning to resemble, to see how the results of my work measured up. Pretty well, actually, as the following pictures show.<\/p>\n

The first two shots below show that there is now at least as much space between the spinner back plate and the engine cowling as there was for the original and possibly slightly more, which makes removal and refitting of the cowling a little bit easier.<\/p>\n

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The next two shots show the Savannah with its new spinner in place. Being new, it looks a lot better than the original which had some nasty deep scratches in it.<\/p>\n

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And finally, the aircraft with everything back in place.<\/p>\n

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That means that the Savannah joins my X-Air and Weedhopper in being fully assembled, airworthy and ready to fly, the first time that this has applied to all three of them since I’ve had them. After fitting the Savannah’s prop and its having been turned over several times by hand, I gave it a spin on the starter and I have a sneaking idea that it may even start without needing to charge its battery.<\/p>\n

All we need now is for the damn rain to stop so not only can I do just that with the hangar open but also so I can give all three aircraft some extended engine runs and some taxying up and down the runway. Regrettably, it looks as though I could have to wait quite a few days for that to happen \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I decided today that there would be no more pussy-footing around and that the stupid idea that I’d had to put a spacer behind the Savannah’s spinner back plate was precisely that. Stupid. I’d found an old prop hub among my stuff but it would have meant taking it to the local machine shop and … 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-13412","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\/13412","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=13412"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13432,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13412\/revisions\/13432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}