Back To The Wings
I've been jumping around for the past few weeks doing the million little things that still need to be accomplished. Fuselage, canopy and now the wings. I haven't touched the wings in quite some time and there's a lot of loose ends there. I'm trying to get everything done on them so I can get them mounted to the fuselage.
These are all my electrical grounds going to my "forest of tabs" that's mounted to the firewall behind the glovebox.
Finished up my main electrical bus. It's mounted to the underside of a custom radio tray that goes in the glovebox.
Using a piece of safety wire, I fished the 2 wires needed down the right-side canopy rail to the canopy unlocked sensor.
Canopy wiring completed. This includes the LED strip lights, defrost fans, GPS antenna and canopy unlocked sensor. I also added an edge welt along the glareshield trailing edge. This was easily installed and really enhances the appearance of the glareshield. There's also a safety benefit in case of a crash and ones head smacks that edge. The welt is padded and should help to mitigate injury,
I decided to install the stall warning sensor. Was originally going to use only the pitot AOA but changed my mind. The vane oriented left sticks into the airstream and activates a microswitch at stall AOA.
Getting the two heater door control cables connected was not easy. They are buried low on the firewall behind the rudder pedals. Access was tough.
Cutting the slot in the left wing leading edge for the stall warning vane to poke through. Initial rough cut.
Stall vane slot after final touchup with small files.
The access hole for the stall warning sensor. Getting my arm in there was a bitch. Now with the nut plate ring riveted in access is pretty much impossible. Hope that sensor never needs service.
Got both landing lights in the wing leading edges wired.
There's more to go but started the process of tidying up and securing the rats nest of wires under my panel.
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