Continuing with the prep work for the new panel as the downpours of recent weeks have waterlogged the runway so temporarily grounded

All the holes have been realigned and drilled and smoothed but .. the MGL instruments are fractionally larger than the standard hole.. so each needed teasing out.

The Trigs .. which haven’t been out of my original panel in 8 years were removed in turn to allow an accurate new hole alignment in the new panel.

Having drilled standard circular holes .. I realised my original were the flat top and bottomed version that Trig offer. This meant that I needed to use the original crescent cheek brackets that make up the full circle.

I had one pair but needed 2 .. Algy another local Kub pilot very kindly gave me his as he had mounted his without.

Just need to complete the black paint prep before the big switchover

Its really handy being based at such a busy small strip like Priory Farm as many people pop by and we have a wealth of great knowledge across all sorts or skills around light aircraft.

One such ‘pop in’ is Clive who has great experience of Jabirus and spotted that one of my cooling ducts had a gap at the back that you could just squeeze your fingers through.

This would mean that the air, being squeezed through the front cowl ducts would effectively whizz through..and, having got a ‘shiny’ new multiple 4 way CHT monitor .. I can see that Rear Left Cylinder Head (number 4) is running colder that the others

Clive.. very kindly said he would drop some heat resistant padding next time he was passing .. fast forward to last weekend and in zooms a lovely slick RV .. and touches down at Priory .. out steps Clive with 4 pieces of this rubber of varying sizes! What a gentleman !

Duly secured .. will monitor the difference before adding more… small steps and check each step 😉