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PATRON
Asotin County Washington (KLWS)
Reminds me of back in the 1980s a flight instructor at Gallatin Field told me he'd give me a nice looking red International Harvester pickup if I'd tow it away. Mice had eaten the electrical system. It had something like 60k miles and a big 308 engine.
I took him up on the offer, took my free truck home, and wired it up with a spool of 12 gauge auto wire. No harness, just direct wiring with in-line fuses.
I thought it would be a simple job of just powering the starter, coil, lights/signals, and heater fan. There wasn't anything else to run. But it still ended up like a rat's nest of wires. I identified the wires with plastic tape and permanent marker, which of course faded after a year or so. But that old truck lasted me years until the camshaft broke.
But, Stewart, you've completely derailed and inspired me with what you are doing. Now, instead of holding my fingers to the grindstone for profiling tubes, I'm starting to look at Garmins etc. At first I was thinking of adding a G5 and keeping everything else basic. Now I'm sketching out autopilot servos and G3x touch. I mean, "why not?"
Of course, it helps that my wife is asking if we can make routine trips to Seattle as well as the coast. Then there's talk about trips to Alaska to see her daughter. She says, "you'll have instruments, right?"
Who am I to argue?
Between watching your beauty and CharlieN's ideas, I'm afraid I'm wandering down that path of a permanent state of "something even better."
Really, though, I very much appreciate seeing what you are doing.
