Kiss Build Day 11

Friday 2nd November

The job started today with a little road trip to Maplins, as the kit was short two spade connectors for one of the plugs that have to be assembled. I also had to buy some cable-conduit for the EFIS probes sensors I mentioned on day 10. Sadly, Maplins don't sell the correct spade connectors, which should lock in to the plastic plug case. Instead, I bought some without the locking mechanism. This means they pop out the back of the plug when you mate the two halves, but they can be pushed onto the mating tang with a small screwdriver. They are a very tight fit, so will not come off again on their own, and will be covered in heat-shrunk plastic anyway.

Registered a new domain yesterday: www.kiss400.com. Currently, it redirects to this web-site, but I'm considering turning it into an Owners' Club. Watch this space!

Hours effort today: 2

	The main loom, which comes with the kit, runs down the right hand side of the lower beam. The three plugs you can see under the engine , one shrink wrapped and two not, are the ones that have to be assembled. The loom on the left hand side contains the two EGT (Exhaust Gas Temperature) probes, a water temperature probe and the feed from the fuel flow meter, which is the anodised blue jobbie that's just dangling there (that'll work OK like that, won't it?)
	The two looms are cable tied to either side of the keel. The box in the centre of the picture is the throttle cable splitter box, which links the hand and foot throttle cables to the two carb cables. (Note The red cables are attached to the wing in the background and are not dangling from the keel!) Now I've seen this picture, I'm going to redo it, as the loom doesn't look tidy where it passes over the splitter box.
	Here are the two looms exiting the cable conduit at the front of the trike. Getting those 4 cables through the conduit was a mission, let me tell you! Talk about tight! Silicon spray came into it's own once more.
	The probe wires at the top left of the picture will eventually be sheathed too, but I can't do that until I fit the exhaust, so I know how much sheathing to use. Currently still waiting for an exhaust manifold from Flylight, who in turn are waiting for it from Air Creation, but it's not holding me up.

Bummer of the day

The Fuel flow meter has 8mm inlet and outlet, and must be fitted after the fuel filter. The fuel lines in that part of the installation are all 6mm i.d., so I'm going to have to locate a step-up and step-down adapter.

Chatted with Flylight, who advised it might be best to have them turned on a lathe - a local engineering company should be able to do that for me. I'm going to post to the BMAA e-group later to see if anyone knows of a supplier who may have them ex-stock.

Flylight are also of the opinion I should contact Guy Gratton at the BMAA, as this fitting will probably comprise a minor mod.

This won't hold me up though, as it's all easy enough to get to.

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