Worked a lot today without accomplishing much. Just one of those days.
I started by trying to remove the antenna connector from the ICOM 200 radio rack. I bought a new tool at skycraft to open the ring clip that holds the connector to the rack. I could not accomplish that task. I removed the ICOM tray from the radio stack. Dick Isherwood and I rant he antenna cable through the opening in the rack and soldered the cable to the connector while the connector was still attached to the tray. We then reinstalled the tray into the rack.
While trying to install the antenna into the back of the G 327 transponder tray, I was opening the ring clip with the tool for that purpose when it released and flew away. I thought I heard it hit the airplane with a little "tinkle". Later I found it behind where I had been standing when it flew off. I swept up the floor of the garage looking for it before I found it. We discovered that it had been strectched too much so we used pliers to corret that. We figured out how to remove the rear of the transponder tray and attach the antenna and antenna connector. Then if fell off because the clip is too strectched.
We installed the "donut" amp sensor on the battery cable. I attached the black gound wire at the forward ground point on the firewall. We ran the green and blue wires up to the rear of the panel. I will attach the blue wire to the 4.8 v power point and the green to the EIS. I found a grey wire with a black strip from the EIS that is labeled "amp sensor". I think the green may attach to that, I will have to check.
I also attempted to install the GRT pitch servo using the trutrack mounting kit. It seems that the mounting kit requires that you remove the existing riveted on angle and replace it with their angle using rivets. No way am I going to try to use a rivet gun and bucking bar while lying prone in the tailcone. That is pretty frustrating since it is the second mounting kit, the first one being from GRT, that does not seem to work.
