Well, I had an entire to-do list with a bunch of stuff I wanted to get done today, including finishing up the prop spinner fit onto the spinner flow guide (“lampshade”) mounting flange.

As I made my way to the shop after getting organized, I could see the clouds rolling in and heard some distant thunder.  I also noted “my” wild feral cat that lives on my property darted into the carport post haste.  Something was afoot…

Inside the shop I pulled the peel ply and started to gather up my Fein saw to take the prop spinner outside to trim the cured overhanging carbon fiber around the edge.  That’s when all hell broke loose, the sky opened up and a virtually deluge ensued.

So, I ended up trimming the raw carbon edge over the trash can, as I literally saw water pouring into the shop from under the walls.

After a good 10 minutes over a 1/3 of my shop was flooded again… this after days of waiting for the damn thing to dry out.

In the pic of fitting the prop spinner onto the spinner flow guide, you can see that some sanding will be required for the correct fit.  That clearly means my 6 ply estimate was correct, as now sanding some of the inside edge is required for fit vs adding more material.  Thank goodness I didn’t opt for adding a 7th ply.  Also, for your viewing pleasure, I angled the camera so you could see the new round of flood waters overtaking the shop (there’s a reason why a good bit of my shop floor is rust colored!).

I was (and am) quite annoyed that a 30 minute rain shower has set me back to square zero with needing my shop to dry out once again.  I ran out to knock out some errands that have needed my attention for a bit, and upon my return I worked a good while in the house on CAD modeling… more on that to come here in the near future.

Day 2 I finally got back into the shop with my altered plan of getting the top spark plug wires assembled and installed.  I had watched the how-to video from Electroair, made myself a cheat sheet (below) to organize my thoughts, inventoried all the wires and parts, and got to work.

My first task was attaching the spark plug wires to the Electroair CDI on the firewall.  Simple task: plugging in spark plug wires… right?!  Uh, no.  This is an experimental aircraft, and will be treated as such!  Like the PMag wires, the Electroair spark plug wires require a minimum 1/4″ separation from each other.  Moreover, with my placement of the CDI right at the edge of the firewall, I can only angle the 90° spark plug wire connectors somewhat “parallel” or inward of the top cowling surface… clearly to avoid wire chaffing otherwise.

This turned into a good 20 minute machination of angling, assessing and repositioning spark plug wire runs to keep the wires segregated from each other.

Here’s my cheat sheet for cutting the spark plug wires to length and assembling the threaded aircraft spark plug connector on the plug end of the wire.  I’ll note that in the video Electroair links to, red wires are being assembled.  I have blue wires… that difference comes into play.

You see, once I got the wire cut to length and the plug end connector assembled, it was time to do a resistance check on my newly assembled wire.  Per the Electroair video we should see 475 ohms per inch of spark plug wire.  Uh, I was seeing around 30 ohms per inch.  Something ain’t right in Kansas here Dorothy!

After doing some more digging around online, I found some comments from our RV brethren discussing Electroair blue vs red spark plug wires.  Ahh, a poster confirmed that the blue wire has a way lower resistance than the red wire, about what I was seeing. A quick call to Electroair confirmed the blue vs red wire resistance values, and I was on my way after this.

Here we have the #1 cylinder top (Electroair) spark plug wire installed on the spark plug.

Yes, my build schedule was shot to hell with this recent round of rain (not to mention the tropical storm) and I had planned on getting a long day of building in yesterday, and made plans to have dinner with Jess this evening.  So after spark plug wire #1 was complete, and my wire-terminating process dialed in somewhat, I called it an early night.