Sunny in the morning but bad weather forecast. The TAF for Coonabarabran was already indicating 10 gusting 32 winds so we knew the bad weather was not far away. We decided to have a maintenance day. Bob Emery turned up to help so with four of us we were able to take the wings off the Grob so that we could have another go at fixing the brake. John Wakefield came out and brought two decent oil cans with him, and he and Boris bled the brake again. We believe we have improved it, but are not sure how effective it will be when the wings are back on. John had a good look at the items to be inspected for the 100 hourly and we tried to get the wings back on before the storm came. Unfortunately the job didn't go straightforwardly and we ended up putting the wings and fuselage back in the hangar as the rain poured down.
After lunch, John and Boris installed the shock cooling warning in the tug, while I tried unsuccessfully to find the small R clips I bought from Tom Gilbert for the hotelier fitting on the tailplane. Got my office tidied up a bit in the process, but couldn't find them.
In the evening we had a committee meeting by phone conference that lasted until about midnight. However it seems to work well having meetings in this way, and we are going to have them every month from now on. Suits me better to have the meetings during the week.
Hope we will get more flying tomorrow.
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