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Sorry for the severe lack of updates. Part of my good excuse is that we were gone for 2.5 weeks over Thanksgiving. Sailed to Hawaii aboard Princess Cruises' Island Princess. Very relaxing. The other excuse is that I've been flying.

Today I pulled up to the airport and noticed the pretty gusty winds. That gave me an excuse to look at several small things on the plane. First was to redo the Comm antenna line. I had a bad bulkhead BNC connector and had a temporary fix in place. Well I finally got around to making that more permanent.

Other issue was the autopilot. It just would not behave normally. So today I pulled the wing root covers and checked the wires at that connector. Fine. Then I checked them at the servo ... that meant pulling the servo out! That checked fine. The torque line was reading 4.9V just like the instructions said. Called Trutrak and they advised to ship the servo back.

Not wanting to give up an otherwise perfectly fine flying airplane, I decided to reinstall the bellcrank without the servo. At least I can fly while they look at the servo. Maybe I'll get my Phase I hours off soon!

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OK the name sounds a little weird. But I recently purchased this tool at the Depot. How did I ever put in all those screws in without it? When you get ready to assemble your aircraft for the final time and put all the covers on... oh man, I wish I had this earlier.

Here's a good review.

Here's the Bosch site.

I've had to take the seat pans out a few times already. I can have them out in a matter of minutes using the Bosch driver. It's torque setting control is a nice feature too.

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2004 Scott Will.