The mounting bracket for the interior light was never machine countersunk last fall during the primer/interior paint marathon. There were three holes that needed to be machine countersunk for the flush pop rivets that are used to install the light. It would have been best to do this prior to painting, but care was taken not to mar the paint. The bigger issue was preventing the rivet holes from becoming elongated … so a piece of scrap hinge material was drilled and used behind the bracket to prevent the countersink bit from drifting and enlarging the rivet hole.
Riveting the cockpit light onto the cockpit
light bracket.
After the cockpit light was riveted in place, the previously installed wires run inside the roll bar were butt spliced onto the two wires for the cockpit light.
The plans give the builder the option of installing an external audio out jack (not included) for piping audio to external devices. At first though I would not install this option … but after seeing how cool Pete’s Go-Pro video camera is and how good the audio sounds, had a change of heart. A trip to Radio Shack secured a 1/8" stereo jack # 274-249 and two 47K ohm resistors required for the instillation.
Drilling the right floor pan directly under the
existing headset jacks.
The plans instruct the builder to drill the hole for the aux audio out jack to 1/4" but that seemed a little large for the shaft of the Radio Shack jack so the hole was drilled to 15/64" and a very small amount of tweaking with a reamer produced a nice snug fit.
The resistors need to be soldered onto the jack and a brief search for a new soldering iron tip was not fruitful. The old soldering iron tip has been melting the blue plastic film and is now no longer acceptable to attempt a quality solder job. There is a new tip in the shop … just need to locate it tomorrow.
