Wire and clamps
Hours: 4.5 | Posted in Electrical, EngineLots of parts new to the shop at the moment — recieved an order of adel clamps and misc. hardware from ACS, random stuff from McMaster, a crimper frim Digikey, and picked up a boxful of Garmin gear, plus a box of engine sensors, from SteinAir yesterday. The AFS screen isn’t ready yet, hopefully in a month; word is that there’s a shortage of a part needed to build them. I did get the tray, sensors, and all the harnesses, so there’s plenty to be done, and the screen should be able to pop right in when it’s ready.
Tonight I sorted a bunch of hardware into the bin racks for easy access later on; washers, nuts, nutplates, and so forth. Also sorted the large collection of adel clamps I’ve amassed; pretty much fills a medium sized cardboard box. (In case you’re wondering: the engine mount tubes are -12 and -14; you’ll want lots of those.)
With the adel clamps neatly organized, it was a good a time as any to start clamping things. Worked on securing the alternator wiring and other wires that run around the engine mount. There’ll be plenty more clamping to do as more wires get added to the FWF. Put rubber grommets in the subpanel wiring harness holes, and ran the CHT/EGT harness through to start looking at wire run paths.
Worked on the panel and trays: modified the right edge of the EFIS 1 tray where it interlocks with the other one, drilled and countersunk the rivet holes to attach it to the panel. Stripped part of the primer off the panel where I’ll use epoxy to smooth over the rivets around the trays and radio stack. Primed the tray and back of the panel.
Pulled open the box of engine sensors and distributed them around: put the CHT’s in the cylinders finger-tight, the oil temp in its place. Started work on mounting the manifold pressure sensor by drilling for nutplates, but called it a night when it was ready to rivet, since it was past midnight (think of the neighbors…)
