I really couldn't get going tonight, not sure why I wasn't in the mood but got a few bits done in preparation for bonding the cycle wings to the bighead fasteners I received this morning.
Leith from bighead fasteners believed a mention on my blog was worthy of some 'free sample' bigheads. He kindly sent me eight 16mm x 15mm stainless steel cable tyrap fasteners, and two tubes of their FS adhesive. Here's a link to the product selector on their site:
http://www.bighead.co.uk/english/products/standardbigheads.html
I tie wrapped the fasteners onto the cycle wing stays, and lined up the wing on top.
![Bighead Cable tyrap fasteners cable tied onto cycle wing stay. Bighead Cable tyrap fasteners cable tied onto cycle wing stay.](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BPk8NmVi45E/UyoUVGsEluI/AAAAAAAAAxU/caoL4iadE-4/s3200/_DSC1589.jpg) |
Bighead Cable tyrap fasteners cable tied onto cycle wing stay. |
As I mentioned earlier on this post, my head wasn't really in gear, so I didn't want to bond the cycle wings into place tonight - I'll do that tomorrow when I'm concentrating, after all I don't want to get these wrong...
I decided to thread the indicator wires through the wing stay and out of the bottom hole. This was really tricky, and the best 'tool' I could think to hook the wire out of the wing stay was a paperclip with the end bent over - worked really well actually.
![Using a paperclip to pulled cable through bottom wing stay hole. Using a paperclip to pulled cable through bottom wing stay hole.](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Mk44c9kK4zs/UyoUUmQvHhI/AAAAAAAAAxQ/3UuPTcHHGsc/s3200/_DSC1592.jpg) |
Using a paperclip to pulled cable through bottom wing stay hole. |
I decided I wanted to earth the wing indicator to the chassis rather than on the wing stay, so I threaded through the earth cable first, then taped the green cable to the earth and pulled it through the hole.
![Green cable taped to earth cable and pulled through wing stay. Green cable taped to earth cable and pulled through wing stay.](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8kMjwRxwgI0/UyoUVBjcbKI/AAAAAAAAAxY/mmza7Dunz3I/s3200/_DSC1595.jpg) |
Green cable taped to earth cable and pulled through wing stay. |
I then heat shrank the two cables and pushed the heat shrink into the wing stay.
![Cables heat shrunk and pushed back into wing stay. Cables heat shrunk and pushed back into wing stay.](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--zQQof68XY0/UyoUWyrj1QI/AAAAAAAAAxo/1ZfyL-i1Cls/s3200/_DSC1596.jpg) |
Cables heat shrunk and pushed back into wing stay. |
And that was all I achieved this evening, hopefully I'll have my motivation back tomorrow night. I'm intending on bonding the wings to the fasteners and sorting out any odd jobs I can. I'll also do whatever prep I can to ensure the decal guys don't have any problems applying the new decals and stone chip protection film on friday.
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