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RVGator
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Date: 10-28-2009
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Number of Hours: 1.75
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Brief Description: Installed ANL holder, cut battery bolts
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I actually did not plan to get any work done today but I actually make it into the shop for a little bit. I was running errands today and taking non-airplane stuff to the hanger. One of the things I needed was new bolts to hold down the battery, I am not using the kit tray and the bolts that came with it are too long for my homemade tray. The home stores did not carry the bolts longer than 6” and I needed on that was 7”, so I went to a bolt store. They did not have it but the buy suggested something that I should have thought of. Cut the bolt to length and add threads as required. This turn out to be very easy. I installed and nut as a guide the used a hack saw to cut off the end of the bolt, this left some thread but no enough for the depth I needed, I then added about 1” of threads. This worked out perfectly as you can see from the picture.
I next drilled the mounting holes for the ANL, I made as slight mistake here in that I did not tighten up the connection to the starter relay before marking the holes, the ANL is a little farther from the relay than it needs to be, this make the tab is a little short of the start relay and if I tighten up the start relay connection it adds some tension. Since the copper is fairly soft, I am afraid this tension with engine vibrations might develop a crack. I will make a new copper tab before tightening things up; right now things are loosely installed.
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Tab to the right is just short of where it needs to be
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ANL uses 1/4" flat head screws, I used all stainless hardware to the mounting.
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