In prep for getting back into the cockpit in the not too distant future, plus my upcoming trip to Rough River in the back of Marco’s Long-EZ (JT), I dusted off the iPad and ensured my FlyQ EFB (“Poor Man’s Foreflight”) was up to date.  In doing so, I noticed that my iPad seemed to be going dead quicker than usual, so I found a video online that showed all the myriad of things to turn off to help conserve power.

In my fervor of getting my technology squared away, I’ve also had a few occasions over the past months to access my MacBook Air laptop to get a doc, pic, whatever off of it… just one problem: it’s been dead in the water for almost a year(?) now.  No big deal before, but it does have a good bit of info on it regarding my Long-EZ build that I don’t have on other computers.  Sooooo…. I took about 45 minutes to take it apart, remove the old “exploded” battery and find a decently cheap-but good one online.  Which I pulled the trigger on.

Out in the shop, after refreshing the desiccant in the spark plug desiccant holders, I swapped out the wing root aft heat shield screws for the final 316 stainless steel hex drive button head screws.  That actually took a good little bit to get done.

The next “quick kill” item on my list was to get the oil cooler return hose secured, since it is in the form of an arch and I don’t want it flopping around unsecured in the engine compartment.

After finding the correct size Adel clamps for the engine mount tube side and the oil cooler return hose, I then got busy modeling up a required cross-connect tab in Fusion 360 CAD.

I then post processed the newly modeled part and machined it out.  All detailed in this highly informative comparatively short video!

And here we are: oil cooler return hose securing task complete… Voila!

And just in time to shut down the shop at a decent point to take my girl out for a Friday date night.

Pressing forward… some days more than others!