Finished Flap Position Sensor Installation

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I wrapped up the flap position sensor installation tonight.  I installed the 4-40 threaded rod between the bracket I fabricated and the position sensor and adjusted the length so that it moves the position sensor arm through the full range of travel.  I then installed a couple of locking jam nuts to keep the rod from moving.

Next, I configured the flaps with a couple of intermediate stop points.  I’ll duplicate these settings in the VP-X so that it will automatically stop at these points when I tap the flaps switch.  I probably won’t enable that feature during initial flight testing though.  Here’s the indication when the flaps are all the way up.

…and here’s the indication when the flaps are all the way down.

Installed Heater Control Cable

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I installed the heater control box cable tonight.  The control is mounted on the far right of the instrument panel which provides for a fairly easy routing.  The cable curves down over the rudder bars and is attached to one of the firewall support angles with an adel MS21919-WDG3 adel clamp and then passes through a 1/4″ hole in the vertical firewall support angle behind the wire bundle.

The housing will be anchored with another adel clamp to the bolt on the right and the protruding wire will attach to the b-nut on the flapper arm.  There’s no point hooking these up now since the control cable has to be removed when the instrument panel comes out for paint and labeling.