Some more strut work

On an extremely rainy morning, I cleaned up the shop and did a little work on Goat, for a change.  The as-drawn trailing-edge strut upper attach brackets I found were too short to allow an interference-free fit of the TE tube and the strut.  An easy remedy was to remake these brackets with the same length spacing as the LE brackets.  Easy enough, but I guess I lost momentum when I found this a month or more ago.  A little hack-saw work this morning and cleanup on the belt sander, and out popped three (still one to go) shiny new parts.  Working on the most accessible wing turned out to be the left panel and that one is now installed.  I do think in all the hole marking with regards to strut length, there is a wee twist in how the bolt holes and double-shear brackets line up.  Not sure if it's anything to be concerned about, but that's why I'll have a local A&P over before getting too much further.

Finally, I started looking harder at cables.  I put in a single cable and have paused to think about it.  I should really take this end into work and get a thumbs up or down just to feel better about the work.  There is a lot riding on each of the Swagelock crimps and I'm just not familiar enough with them yet to have full confidence.  Once confidence is up though, there are a solid dozen cables to make up that will really make a huge difference in the feel of the setup of this Goat.  Obviously the photo to the right is of the temporary setup with a cable clamp.

(this post is for you Walt)