Title: Groundhog Day
So it is Groundhog day today, but it's felt like it all week. Got the Forward flying wires attach tabs re-made to a longer dimension. After a careful re-measuring, I discovered the aft flying wires (all four) were long enough, but only about one and a half threads were past the witness holes in the terminals. Not comfortably enough to allow any future adjustments. Better to build longer attach tabs for these too. Lastly, the lower landing wire attach tabs on each side where both wires attach are the proper length, but I drilled the holes too close together. The end terminals interfere with one another. I contemplated welding them shut and then re-drilling. Abandoned that idea since I wasn't confident it would be as strong as a re-made new one. Are you keeping count? Yeah, it comes to re-making another ten attach tabs. The parts are pictured below in the first picture, less the bushing stock which I needed to order more of. The second picture below shows the terminal ends coming up a bit short. The top one is the forward flying wire, the check nut is located where it was against the terminal when installed. The witness holes in the terminals are also visible just beyond the threaded ends of the rods. The lower wire is an aft flying wire, where the threads made it to the witness holes, but only just. The powdercoated tabs pictured also displays my sloppy drilling on the right one. Thought I'd just drill it full size (5/16") in one step, but it wandered off before I noticed it was happening. Had I drilled a smaller pilot hole first, likely wouldn't have had the problem. I've got four more tabs to go in the welding process. After that,. Drilling, fitting, reaming and powdercoating to go to finish things up and get back to where I was.


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