{"id":380,"date":"2014-01-11T16:50:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T16:50:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-13T08:27:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T08:27:41","slug":"landing-lights-and-tool-modifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2014\/01\/11\/landing-lights-and-tool-modifi\/","title":{"rendered":"Landing Lights and Tool Modification"},"content":{"rendered":"

I fabricated the light side of the wiring harness today.<\/p>\n

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I wrapped the power board with some foam to protect it from vibration and stuffed it inside the light. \u00a0I stopped by the hangar later in the day to remove the canopy and tried out the lights. \u00a0Unfortunately, the right landing light was intermittent. \u00a0I ended up tracing the problem to a poor solder connection on one of the LEDs, so I re-soldered it.<\/p>\n

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With the right lens almost trimmed to final size, I decided to drill it to the wingtip so that I could install it in the same place every time during final trimming.<\/p>\n

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Torquing the jam nuts on the rod ends used as hinges on the elevators and rudder require a special tool. \u00a0I picked up a set of these offset wrenches from Harbor Freight yesterday and modified it to fit around the rod end. \u00a0I cut a slot in the end and reduced the thickness quite a bit. \u00a0I’ll try this out tomorrow and see how well it works.<\/p>\n

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I fabricated the light side of the wiring harness today. I wrapped the power board with some foam to protect it from vibration and stuffed it inside the light. \u00a0I stopped by the hangar later in the day to remove the canopy and tried out the lights. \u00a0Unfortunately, the right landing light was intermittent. \u00a0I … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3663,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/3663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}