{"id":14870,"date":"2019-04-09T19:39:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T17:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14870"},"modified":"2019-04-09T19:41:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T17:41:48","slug":"back-in-the-barn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/back-in-the-barn\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in the barn"},"content":{"rendered":"

But only temporarily! The German supplier to whom I sent back the ATR833S radio has confirmed that it has arrived safely, but although advising that the new items that I wish to order are in stock and ready to be shipped out, hasn’t yet confirmed my revised order. So although I know that I should receive them in the next week or so, the delay is eating into the time available before my prospective April time windows for my flight to the UK.<\/p>\n

I therefore have to get moving on the instrument panel redesign that I have planned for 77ASY. The sheet of lacquered aluminium that I ordered last week for the new panel front arrived today and knowing that this would be the case, I took the step over the week-end of moving the aircraft back up into the barn. The reason, as I found out when I did the screen replacement a couple of years or so ago (my, doesn’t time fly!), is that it will be much cleaner and brighter there to do the work.<\/p>\n

It’s much too dark in the hangar, even with the doors open, and in any case, I don’t want to have the chore every day before starting work of having to open the doors, especially if it’s raining. Plus I can work in the barn relatively comfortably even if it is raining, just so long as it’s not also blowing a gale, unlike in the hangar where experience has shown that the bare earth floor soon becomes like a quagmire.<\/p>\n

Here are some shots that I took of the Savannah in place in the barn together with the Weedhooper and ready for me to start work.<\/p>\n

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The first job is to strip out the existing panel, which I hope to be able to start doing tomorrow. As I’ve got to re-use the existing headset extension cables, I’ve decided to make up my own connection cables for both the radio and the transponder.<\/p>\n

The latter is dead easy – just a power supply – but it will be much more complicated for the radio as unless I can get the information from Alphatec, I’ll have to work out the jack plug connections for myself. But in any case, if I bought the TQ radio connector cable (199\u20ac) I’d end up discarding most of it anyway. That or having another set of connectors away from the D-plug on the rear of the unit, which I want to avoid as it would just be a potential noise source.<\/p>\n

As usual, I’ll record progress here in My Trike. I’m looking forward now to getting cracking, and there’ll be even more of an incentive when the new radio and transponder have arrived and I can hold them in my hot little hands \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But only temporarily! The German supplier to whom I sent back the ATR833S radio has confirmed that it has arrived safely, but although advising that the new items that I wish to order are in stock and ready to be shipped out, hasn’t yet confirmed my revised order. So although I know that I should … 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-14870","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\/14870","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=14870"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14877,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14870\/revisions\/14877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}