Inspection

At last..ive reached the point where I can engage with the local inspector.

Tom (Woodhouse) covers a number roof aircraft at Priory Farm and so I thought it would be nice to ask him to look.

What a really nice, genuine guy.. nothing was too much trouble to look at and talk through.

Tom found a few bolts out of safety ..where little or no thread was showing through the nut-bolt combination..

On checking back through the original build manual I realised I had been a little over zealous with use of washers! I’d managed to put washers under the bolt head as well as under the nut .. removing all these put all the bolts into safety !

The image above shows it flush … post washer removal..2 threads showing

The same was found on 1 cross bracing wire in the front cabane. This had been covered for the last 5 years so clearly not visible.

Quite why I used so many washers is a mystery… washers in these positions (on bracing wires) are great for ‘finer’ adjustment .. where you have a fixed length of bracing cable .. removing washers has the effect of tightening the cable (quite significantly per washer) and adding slackens

3 washers! I think that was excessive !

Remove tang … tricky but it cam out relatively easily

Back to single washer, cable nice and taught and colour marked