Sunday, August 27th, 2006
Whew, it was a full weekend of building. I continued working on the fifth point harness brackets. It turns out that the extra snap bushing holes that I punched a long time ago in the seat ribs were quite in the way of the forward brackets. I notched the brackets and left out two rivets per side to allow for the bushings. Done.
I mounted the fire extinguisher bracket on the aft member behind the flap housing. Then I worked out making a little bracket and actuator assembly for the AOA flap sensor switch. I’m very pleased with my variation on the solution. It was super easy and very effective. Luckily I had run some conduit laterally through the baggage floor ribs which made wiring the switch very simple. I also finished up wiring the flap motor and FPS system. I even temporarily installed the switch in the instrument panel and operated it from there. Woo hoo, very fun to see something operate after the first wiring work.
I don’t have any of my Grand Rapids stuff so I had to make a little paper mock up of the foot print of the air data computer for positioning of a bunch of other stuff in the upper fuselage. I next worked on a battery box for the EFIS aux battery. It is a small 5A battery. Fun with angle aluminum. I’m going to use a couple of long AN3 bolts into nutplates for hold down.
