{"id":757,"date":"2009-09-18T18:57:14","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T18:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=757"},"modified":"2009-09-19T09:11:59","modified_gmt":"2009-09-19T09:11:59","slug":"mind-the-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/mind-the-doors\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind the doors!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things were quiet late this afternoon so I thought I’d nip out and see if I could get the other door on. Having worked out a technique when I did the first door, the second one went on pretty quickly. It was again ‘off’ by the same amount as the first door compared to the original and the main conclusion I have come to is that it’s due to my having used thicker padding (good quality central heating lagging) on the cabin tubes that the doors are mounted on. In fact I’m sure that’s the reason. I don’t think it will cause a problem and I’m hoping that the thicker padding will last longer and not become as tatty as the original stuff did.<\/p>\n

One interesting thing I found is that because I’d taped the first door closed, when I removed the tape it had developed a ‘memory’ and returned to the closed position much better and more easily after being opened. After I’d done the second door, I did the same thing and I hope that it will do the same as the other one. Here are a few pics showing the finished results.<\/p>\n

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Now it really is beginning to look like a proper<\/em> microlight \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I’ll leave this latest door overnight and then see what adjustments are needed. At the moment the bottom isn’t tucking in every time but I’ll see how it is in the morning. The other thing I’ve found is that because the doors swing completely forward when opened, the door plastics come into contact with the nuts on the four little bolts on each side that secure the hinges to the hinge plates, which explains the damage I saw on the old doors. What’s needed is a small, light metal plate to be stuck on the outside of each door plastic so it touches the nuts rather than the plastic, so I’ll look into that tomorrow as well.<\/p>\n

I’m just glad that this particular job is finished. However, I’m now facing a dilemma. I’ve only sat in MYRO a couple of times since it all started coming together again and I had the feeling of being a bit cramped that I did not remember from before. I especially found it a bit tight around my left arm that you have to use to operate the throttle and now I’ve realised why. It’s that thick padding – because of it I can now see that I’ve lost something like 1\/2″ of cabin width each side compared to with the original thinner material. <\/p>\n

The problem is, I’m now always going to know that – and will it affect my enjoyment of MYRO? I don’t know, but I suspect it will \ud83d\ude15<\/p>\n

Easy, you say, take out the thick padding and replace it with thin stuff. That will certainly solve some of the problems but it will create others, in particular the cable-tie holes for the hinge plates that have now been drilled through the screen will all be in the wrong places and, what’s more, the wrongly positioned holes will all be visible.<\/p>\n

So there’s my dilemma. I know something’s not right, but if I correct it I’ll create other problems. The only way to do a ‘proper’ job is to discard this screen and make another one. That would make things perfect again and wouldn’t cost a lot in financial terms – only \u00a340 or so for the plastic – but it would be costly in terms of time. My guess is that it could put things back by about a fortnight. Plus there’s the disruption – it would mean unbolting the lower fuel pump and pump drain and removing all the bolts holding in the panel, amongst others.<\/p>\n

However, I think that after mulling this over for just a few minutes there’s a solution that will avoid all of that. That’s to make up new hinge plates with the cable-tie holes in slightly different positions and to also add cover plates on the outside. The cable-ties will also go through these and they will cover up the incorrect old holes in the screen. I’m sure that will do it and I think the final result will also be perfectly acceptable visually. I think I’m already beginning to breathe a small sigh of relief \ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Things were quiet late this afternoon so I thought I’d nip out and see if I could get the other door on. Having worked out a technique when I did the first door, the second one went on pretty quickly. It was again ‘off’ by the same amount as the first door compared to the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","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\/757","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=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}