One of my old college buddies Matt was in town this weekend to visit. I was hoping we’d have more time to work on the plane, but at least we had a little.
I received this brass restrictor fitting from Wick’s Aircraft today. It has a 0.040 hole drilled in the middle to dampen out the pressure changes so that the manifold pressure sensor reading doesn’t fluctuate wildly. Wick’s has a $15 minimum order, so I had to pay an extra $5 fee since this is all I ordered. I was going to add a couple of other parts onto the order that I need so that I didn’t need to pay the fee, but their prices are substantially higher. Companies with minimum order sizes piss me off anyway, so this will be the last time ordering from Wick’s if I can help it.
I also got an order from Aircraft Spruce with some more Ray Allen servo cable for the aileron trim. Matt helped install the connectors on the ends and I wired it to the VP-X alongside the pitch trim cable.
Under the seats, I installed a 5 position molex connector to attach the cable to the aileron trim servo.
