Europa #435 G-RODO Build Journal - 2022 04

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Not much progress this month - partly because of holidays - but latterly because of a trapped nerve in my spine making movement painful.

day	notes	hours
1	Nylon round rod delivered.
4	While working on the database created a while back to document all mods incorporated, and having added URL links to the relevant photo pages for some of the mods, consider that it would be useful to have a similar feature on the website. Add a suitable table to the local mySQL database, with a new PHP script to display all found pages for each mod, sorted by date. Add a column to the milestones mySQL table for links to that script, and modify the milestones script to show it. Test with a couple of mods and after some debugging it all seems to be working OK, and should be a useful reference for anyone checking implementation of mods. Looks as though it should be safe now to implement on the live site, but I'll let it simmer for a day or two in case any clever improvements come to mind. Will need quite a bit of effort to get all data collected and entered, though - work on some mods is spread over a wide timespan.
7	Hacksaw off about 20mm of the 12mm nylon round rod. Chuck it in the lathe, centre drill and face off. Reverse in chuck, centre drill and face to 17.5mm length. Drill through 4.5mm. Repeat to make a second stand-off. Check how they fit between the backing plate and the RAM mount. The 1.25" screws are perfect, going well through the stiffnuts but not protruding into the iPhone area; 1" screws would have been much too short for this length of stand-off. Fit 4 of the M4 anchor nuts to the backing plate in the usual way with TAPK33BS rivets.	3614.6
8	Checking through my documents, I cannot find a copy of the radio licence that I applied for on 17 Feb 2021 and had an e-mail confirmation of successful payment on 22 Feb. Phone OFCOM and the very helpful guy apologises for the glitch and sends a PDF copy immediately by e-mail. Because the top left hole in the blanking plate is a slightly larger one that was pre-existing, I need to align that anchor nut with the hole in the main panel. Climb into the port seat. Notice while there that the clip at the forward end of the conduit along the base of the tunnel has become detached, so leave it out for re-bonding. Attach the backing plate behind the main panel using the 4 anchor nuts already fitted to the anchor plate. Insert a screw in the last (top left) hole and fit an anchor nut. Tighten and align for rivet holes. Spot through the rivet holes onto the plate with a 2.5mm drill. Undo all the screws and remove the plate from the panel. Drill through at the spotted locations and countersink with a larger drill bit. Re-fit anchor nut using short screw as usual, with rivets inserted to keep it aligned. Pull rivets. Climb in again and start to fit blanking plate when I remember that I was going to paint it matt black! Undo screws, get out, rub down face of blanking panel with fine ScotchBrite and degrease with acetone. Prime with Acid-7 grey primer, wait 10 minutes, then spray matt black. Wait a few minutes until that coat has flashed off and spray another coat of matt black.	3615.7
9	Climb into port seat with backing plate and all fixings etc. Fit USB outlet to backing plate. Thread Dynon GPS antenna through plate and through grommet then fit grommet to plate. Fit plate behind main instrument panel with 5 off M4 stainless button-head screws (2mm hex driver). Fit RAM mount to plate with 1.25" 8-32 screws, stand-offs and stiffnuts (1/8" hex driver). Re-fit main instrument panel to F14 instrument module. Check that USB leads will fit past the edge of the RAM mount - snug fit but OK. Fit iPhone 6s to RAM mount and check that Runway HD comes up on it - all looks OK. Based on advice in LAA TL 3.26 section 4.4.5, order some firesleeve for the ignition wires in the smallest diameter available from Demon Tweeks, and a few more M4 anchor nuts, as called out for the door lock mod, just in case. Notice that SM10672 (Improved TP5/TP6 retention) still has my old e-mail address shown. Send e-mail to LAA Engineering asking if they would like to have it changed or removed.	3616.2
13	Reply received from Andy Draper at LAA Engineering saying to go ahead with the edit on SM10672 and offering other changes to bring it up to date.
14	Edit SM10672 (Improved TP5/TP6 retention) and send PDF to Andy Draper. Firesleeve and anchor nuts delivered from Demon Tweeks.

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