{"id":4516,"date":"2013-04-16T21:14:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T20:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=4516"},"modified":"2013-04-16T21:17:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T20:17:36","slug":"a-long-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/a-long-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A long day"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a lovely day today for working outside – sunny, no wind but not too hot because the sky had a thin curtain of very high cloud. I spent the whole day working on my new X-Air panel. The work took longer than I expected – it took an hour or so just lining the panel up and drilling the holes to mount it when it’s finished – but just as the evening began to die I got to where I wanted to be, with all of the gauges and switches mounted ready for wiring up tomorrow. I’d hardly stopped all day and I was glad to be able to cover the aircraft up and go indoors for something to eat and drink.<\/p>\n

It hasn’t turned out too badly. I’ve made a couple of silly mistakes but it’ll probably only be me that notices them. Trouble is I’m a bit of a perfectionist and am always highly critical of my own work. Here’s how it looked at the end of the day.<\/p>\n

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It’s not my finest work I have to admit. What doesn’t help is that the fibreglass it’s made from is of such poor quality as I mentioned in a previous post, the main problem being that the gel coat is just so thin. As soon as you get near it with a tool no matter how hard you try, it flakes all around the edges of any hole. But c’est la vie – at least it’s a considerable improvement over what was in the aircraft before \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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