As the weather outside is around 26 gusting 40 something it seems a good time to get some maintenance a and checks done.

After rigging 18 rigging wires on the ‘plane a number of years ago I was not quite happy with one of the flying wires as opposed to landing wires on the wing .. by the time I tightened everything up to meet the 3 degrees lower wing dihedral one of the turnbuckles was just at its limit… it was fine but would not give me any real adjustment options should they be required.

Well, 3 years on … and checking the dihedral and incident boards and it remains spot on… but I still felt the need to replace that one wire …

Aircraft was put into the flying position and tethered and tressled to stop it tipping up on its nose

Get the tools ready… and cable and ferrules and thimble

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Including incidence and dihedral boards

Then set to work gaining access … to discover I had added the access ring below but not cut it open .. nor added a second to allow two hands in to manage nuts around the main spar

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Crimping done and making sure everything is threaded onto the cable in sequence … guess who ran out of black large heat shrink !

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Be careful to thread and cut the correct (old) cable