Ned's Grumman 2 (ish) TD in New Zealand

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Re: Ned's Grumman 2 (ish) TD in New Zealand

Postby Sheddie » Mon Feb 23, 2015 1:22 am

Ned wrote:Had a quick read, and looks like putting down some polyester tape or something will do the job. Will likely not be an issue, but better safe than sorry right? cheers for the heads up!

You're right, it is much easier to do something now while you can still get at it, than later when it is all closed in. We have 230v, but only power points and it is all centred around the galley wall and foot of the bed. I have some 12v wires across the roof for lights and fan and protected them with tape.
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Re: Ned's Grumman 2 (ish) TD in New Zealand

Postby Ned » Mon Feb 23, 2015 3:40 pm

foam cut and fitted. Was late and sh** photo
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heres one a little earlier
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and an out of focus shot... got the nichrome wire and twisted it up to double it, and then doubled it again to get it a bit stiffer to cut channels through the foam
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and a pic of the shitty channels i cut with it
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Re: Ned's Grumman 2 (ish) TD in New Zealand

Postby Sheddie » Mon Feb 23, 2015 6:39 pm

Ned wrote:
and a pic of the shitty channels i cut with it
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Looks fine, and who will see it when the roof is on. :roll:
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Re: Ned's Grumman 2 (ish) TD in New Zealand

Postby KCStudly » Mon Feb 23, 2015 9:16 pm

Good place to practice technique because it won't show anyway. ;)
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Re: Ned's Grumman 2 (ish) TD in New Zealand

Postby Ned » Tue Feb 24, 2015 4:46 am

Had to make them all bigger as the wiring didn't fit haha.

All roof wiring in just now (10:45pm) so time for a shower, some TV to wind down and then off to bed to get up again at 6. This thing better be finished in time haha
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Re: Ned's Grumman 2 (ish) TD in New Zealand

Postby Sheddie » Tue Feb 24, 2015 4:55 am

So is it next week you are taking it away :QM :shock:
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Re: Ned's Grumman 2 (ish) TD in New Zealand

Postby Ned » Tue Feb 24, 2015 5:13 am

Best case scenario, its done before Saturday so I have Saturday to detail the car, fix the water leak, put on new brake pads, flush brake fluid, do oil change, check other fluids like diff and gearbox fluid etc so I can leave Sunday...
Though leaving as late as first thing Thursday next week is acceptable
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Re: Ned's Grumman 2 (ish) TD in New Zealand

Postby Ned » Tue Feb 24, 2015 1:19 pm

First roof panel on! glued and screwed. Will redo the screws later (as they are angled) to get them below flush and fill them so they dont hinder the aluminium later.
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Put some aluminium tape in the wiring grooves as a barrier for the wiring. Worked quite well. Aluminium tape wasnt all that sticky, so went in quite easy, and ran the rounded end of a stanley knife over the flat edges, and it actually came out reasonably smooth.
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Making sure i dont forget what the wiring is for haha. Inside and outside, driver and passenger side lights, and a fan is all i've wired in so far. Galley wiring will come from the galley wall with a rubber thing like car doors have probably.
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Got all the wiring in!
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you can really see how dark it was outside by the time i finished.
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and this is what my garage floor looks like haha. I stopped cleaning it, it was just too hard and so pointless
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a quick thing about my wiring... I may/may not have ,entioned it before, but rather than wiring 12V everywhere and using the switches on the lights to turn them on/off, i'm wiring all my switches back into the main control area, and switching the 12V from there.
So it's not done yet (waiting on some parts) but this is my light driver.
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it has 8 inputs, and 8 outputs, so in its simplest form, it will behave exactly like a switch on a light, but this way i have the option to change the code (when i'm not in a massive time crunch) to dim the lights, control them from my phone or a key fob etc. so the idea is that the switches will work as notmal, but i might find that the inside lights are too bright, and this way i can PWM them to get them to be at say 60% brightness when they are turned on. Doubt it's really an issue, but as an electronics engineer, and because i program micros for a living, i kinda wanted to do something different.
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Re: Ned's Grumman 2 (ish) TD in New Zealand

Postby Ron Dickey » Wed Feb 25, 2015 9:24 pm

you are doing a great job.

Some how I never thought of using a label machine for my wires. makes total sense I have just been writing on tape in hopes I can read it when I need to later. Now I have another reason to get a labeler.

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Re: Ned's Grumman 2 (ish) TD in New Zealand

Postby Ned » Wed Feb 25, 2015 10:16 pm

Cheap too! i got mine from this place when it was on special and paid like $40 for it

http://www.labelcity.com/DYMO-RHINO-420 ... 01611.html
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Re: Ned's Grumman 2 (ish) TD in New Zealand

Postby Ned » Mon Mar 02, 2015 4:27 am

Thursday morning is getting scary close now!
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Re: Ned's Grumman 2 (ish) TD in New Zealand

Postby Sheddie » Mon Mar 02, 2015 5:03 am

I have been wondering how things were going. So how is progress :QM
You don't need any sleep between now and then, you can do that when you get to Coromandel. :goodnight:
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Re: Ned's Grumman 2 (ish) TD in New Zealand

Postby Ned » Mon Mar 02, 2015 5:24 am

Going OK. No computer to do updates with photos though but outer skin is in, aluminium tomorrow. Doing wiring now. Still need to skin a little on the hatch etc. Plenty to do, no time, no sleep haha
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Re: Ned's Grumman 2 (ish) TD in New Zealand

Postby Sheddie » Tue Mar 03, 2015 2:58 am

You have done an amazing amount of work in a short time. :eyebrows: I make it six weeks, this coming weekend :shock: We were 10 weeks to our first trip.
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Re: Ned's Grumman 2 (ish) TD in New Zealand

Postby Ned » Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:18 am

4:17am... Still not done. Starting to make mistakes and regretting a lot of my decisions now.. Oh well, tough luck I guess. Should still have a great time away (I hope)
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