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Spinner bulkhead re-attached with new hardare.
Getting inspection panels re-installed without dropping them inside
the plane is sometimes tricky, especially
when they're on vertical walls. Here's the trick my mechanic taught
me about that. Form a handle with tape:
which allows you to hold it in place until you get the first couple of
screws attached:
All buttoned up, ready to fly.
Getting ready to fly the plane home after the annual; charging all the
things.
Heading home, loading the plane.
April/May 2015 was the first annual for my airplane since the propellor was replace and engine overhauled in 2013-14. This was the first semi-normal annual. Still plenty of work done, but not major systems were replaced.
Taking apart the spinner to annual the propeller.
The pressure plate was a bit rusty and wasn't holding pressure on the
front spinner bulkhead.
We painted the pressure plate so it at least wasn't corroding.
Prop dome with the spinner bulkhead removed.
Electric fuel pump, fuel selector and fuel system sump at the bottom
of the photo.
While parts came in and we worked on stuff for the annual, I was
driving my father-in-law's truck around.
When we had a break, I took a couple of days and drove to HQ and spend
a couple of days in the office. Here's the office recharging setup.
I spent a good bit of time during this trip testing chargers in the
truck for use
in the airplane.
Back to the annual, all the belly panels off.
It was my first time taking the panels off. Over a couple hundred
screws; I stripped three and had to extract them by cutting a slot
with a dremel tool.
We did some work on the landing gear. Here's the plane on jacks, gear
retracted, looking vaguely Airwolf-like.
