I have not been in the shop for about six days but for a very good reason. All of my sons with their families have been in town for the past few days so Connie and I are spending every available minute with the kids. With two of the boys in the military since 1998, it's the first time the entire family with all the grandkids have been together. I have included an entry under "Miscellaneous" with a bit more detail.
Today, however, I found an hour to fabricate a jig for bending and testing the fuel senders. I constructed a small box simulating both the left tank baffle and the root rib for the right wing. I located the mounting holes, cut the openings for the stewart-warner senders with a hole saw, and drilled the attach holes using the senders as a guide. My plan is to bend the float arms per the included directions checking the "empty" and "full" positions with a multimeter (30 ohms at full and 240 ohms at empty). If the jig dimensions are correct, the float arms should require little of no tweaking when they go in the actual tanks. The test jig isn't necessary but I had the time and scrap material.
The moms and all the kids are going shopping tomorrow so I plan to spend some shop time making a battery pack for testing various electrical components. My plan is to get a small 12v rechargeable battery and mount it in a wooden box with an appropriately wired DPDT switch allowing the current polarity to be switched. The battery pack will be used for testing a variety of components and devices such as trim servos. Once a 12v battery is chosen, I will determine a method for charging/recharging the battery pack.
