I thought I might as well use today to clear up all those nitty-gritty little jobs that you always leave and say that you’ll do later but often never get round to. First I nipped down to B & Q to buy some aluminium for my new hinge plates and a pack of stick-on draught excluder to go along the bottom edge of the cabin top plastic where the doors come into contact with it. B & Q’s was rubbish and I got exactly what I was looking for from Wickes. Foolishly I didn’t measure the dimensions of the hinge plates and the small sheet of aluminium I bought turned out to be too narrow so I’ll have to look for another source for that one.<\/p>\n
I’m glad to say, though, that the sum total of what I achieved today was very satisfying. I replaced the cable-ties holding the fuel cock to improve the appearance, cable-tied in the radio aerial lead to make it nice and tidy and fitted a specially cut piece of 1mm polycarbonate to cover a 6″ gap that exists in the middle between the seats between the back of the pod and the fuselage rear cover. It’s something I had in mind to do because I lost a retractable chinagraph pencil out of the bottom of MYRO when I was flying months ago and my solution will help to avoid that kind of thing happening again.<\/p>\n
I also fitted the nose steering links between the rudder pedals and the front forks. Rosie mentioned ages ago that there are two types and that once when she ordered some replacements the ones that arrived were too long. I was disappointed to find that the ones off MYME suffered from the same problem and I guess that must mean that MYME’s pedal assembly must have been positioned slightly further back than MYRO’s. Maybe Cyclone received a complaint from long-legged pilots that they couldn’t get in! Anyway, there’s always a silver lining… because one of the old ones had a little bit of surface rust on it, I cleaned it up and gave both a coat of white Hammerite. Very nice – a big improvement on the originals \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
But the last thing I did that I was very pleased about was I repaired the little nip on the pod that was caused by the front forks when I first refitted the pod all those weeks ago. I always knew that I should and that if I didn’t and began flying MYRO, the damage, small though it was, would get dirty and then it would be too late. <\/p>\n
Well, now I need feel guilty no longer. It’s done… chill man \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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