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| Testing. |
The return of Michael and David* last night gave us a boost resulting in quite a productive day. We a first coat of paint on the wings, Trevor got the wiring as far as he could until we get a few spare parts, and Dan finished the majority of the welding. After Dan's mounts were finished they were taken into Trujillo to be sandblasted and then given a zinc coating to prevent corrosion. In the afternoon we managed to putty up the blades to give them a smooth finish and then get a white coat of paint on everything.
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| Trevor before the sun went down. |
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| Trevor long after... |
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| Working late as usual! |
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| The dump-load. |
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| Trevor's boards |
In the evening Dan had arranged for him, Trevor and Nino to meet up for dinner with a couple of the volunteers with Hayleys organisation, however due to our pushing to get work done they were running quite late by the time we got back to the house. After a while I decided to walk down to the restaurant to meet them for a drink but when I got there, there was no sign or the boys, just 2 hungry girls who thought they had been stood up. Eventually the boys turned up explaining that they had got a taxi but the driver didn't realise the place was just down the road and took them on an unintentional tour of the city! After we all had a good laugh at the boys and their story, Dan lived up to the stereotype of Canadians being the nicest people you can meet and treated us all to a lovely steak dinner.
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| The first "control box". |
The only other point of interest in the day was me absent mindedly deciding it would be a great idea to stack 2 heavy magnetic plates** on top of one another, getting the tips of three of my fingers trapped in the process. Thanks to the efforts of the others, the plates were eventually pulled apart and my fingers freed with no lasting damage. Although they did stay very flat for a few hours...
*I should probably stop referring to him as "that man from the Ashden Awards"
**The stator
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