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Author Archives: pclifton
Building landing/taxi light units
Yep, time today for more fun with lights. I really liked the wingtip boards I got from Paul at Flyleds, and when he mentioned offering a combination landing/taxi light unit for RV leading edge cutouts, I was pretty excited. I … Continue reading
Posted in Electrical, Wings
Hours Logged: 2
Building the light boards, pt III
*crickets* Once again it’s been a while since I’ve been here, and yeah, it’s been a while since any real work got done on this project. I will defense myself slightly by saying that I have been doing some stuff, just not … Continue reading
Posted in Electrical, Wings
Hours Logged: 1.5
Building the light boards, pt II
So first off, the good news: The board that didn’t want to work right last night is now fixed. As planned, I took the board to work and tried testing it with the multimeter in the lab, but that didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Electrical, Wings
Hours Logged: 2.5
Building the wingtip light boards, pt I
So, after spending a fair amount of my long weekend alternately catching up on work around the house and being lazy in the air conditioning (since the Houston summer has arrived), today I finally got to work building the FlyLEDs … Continue reading
Posted in Electrical, Wings
Hours Logged: 4.5
Wingtip light fitting, pt II
Short night again tonight, but I trimmed the other three boards to fit the light coves. Board #1 from last week was where I was timid and took forever, tonight things went a lot faster. It helped that the forward-facing … Continue reading
Posted in Electrical, Wings
Hours Logged: 1
FlyLEDs wingtip light fitting, pt I
Alright, so once again it’s been a couple weeks. You see, a few weekends ago the clutch in Josie’s car gave up the ghost…so of course I said I’d fix it to save her the $1000 mechanic trip…and of course … Continue reading
Posted in Electrical, Wings
Hours Logged: 1
Finished fitting mid cabin covers
Whew…so after a weekend of distractions (and ok, also laziness), I got back to work tonight. The next tasks seemed pretty simple, really. Compared to the left cover, where I had to tinker with the fuel selector mount and locate/cut/drill … Continue reading
Posted in Fuselage
Hours Logged: 2
Fitting left mid cabin cover
So tonight’s update includes a fun bit of black comedy. Last time out, I’d discovered that I couldn’t use one of the screw locations for the left-hand mid cabin cover because there was already a screw for the fuel selector … Continue reading
Posted in Fuselage
Hours Logged: 1.5
More selector stuff
Aaaand here we have yet another instance of “seemingly simple things gone wrong.” Tonight I had low ambitions; I figured I’d get the selector mount riveted together, temporarily mount it in the fuse, and fit the left mid-cabin cover and … Continue reading
Posted in Fuselage
Hours Logged: 1
Selector mount priming, flap bearing block drilling
Not a ton of activity tonight, just trying to be doing something basically. I cleaned and primed the parts for the fuel selector mount; well, the angles and spacers at least (no need to prime the alclad mount plate piece). I … Continue reading
Posted in Fuselage
Hours Logged: 1