| Date: 12-30-2023 | |
| Number of Hours: 10 | |
| Manual Reference: 23 |
This might seem like nothing, but it has gobbled up a few days! Just securing wires here and there.
Right in the corner is a clickbond with two pies of glass holding the yellow wire. Just out of shot and too hard to see anyway is another one… that I had to do twice!
Here’s another.
One more in the hellhole. Those wires are big and a good foundation to secure smaller wires to later.
Here I’m double P-clamping as well as making a bracket that I folded on the brake. It all takes a while.
I’m very keen to ensure this critical trigger wire is secured as well as the joining fuel pipe. That one has the double clamps and some baffle material cable tied to ensure no rubbing given it is almost sitting on the cylinder block.
I’ve also been busy with changing over the brake fluid reservoirs as one was leaking to a better design. The throttle-body plate with MAP connectors has been fitted as a final item. Numerous other small jobs have been happening that are not worth a photo. Enough to say I am at work daily (including Xmas and New Year’s day) moving this project forward.
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Love it Dave, I read your site every couple of days now.
Seems to me that fiddly safety work may take it’s toll on patience here and there.
Read a lot about the Cosy and understand why you say “Should have built a Cosy”.
Catch up one day
Regards
Roger
Hey Roger, Just logged in to see you have left a comment. I guess I should update more often! I’ve been at work every day for weeks now. even xmas and New Years day. A lot is still trying to figure out where things go, ordering parts, the parts come and they are wrong…ordering more parts. Today was a lot of staring at the engine and working out where the heat exchanger MIGHT fit and preparing the expansion chamber to return to the welders YET AGAIN. There is an issue about left and right…they keep thinking its the other left… I’ve spent quite some emails with those people too trying to get the order finalised, the Laminova guys in the UK that is. They keep wanting data I don’t have. …or didn’t. I’ve tried to get direction from the engine designer but I think he was hit with the Japanese earthquake at the start of the year and nothing is coming back from him. The engine builders …well I expect I will never hear from them again so they are out of the picture. I DEFINITELY have the wrong prop pitch despite giving the engine specs to Catta Props. They stuffed that one up by over 10″ of pitch. hahahah …so on it goes. Typical airplane build ROL