my daughter and I came up today to try the electrical fix that Kevin (the DFC pres) thought would take care of the issue mentioned the other day.

Sure enough, he was right on the money!  I had wrongly assumed that the ground connections were all on a common strip, but in the end they were isolated terminals.  We had to fashion a pair of jumpers to spread the load across multiple terminals, and it worked!

We finally dragged the plane out of the hanger and it fired right up!  (well once I switched on the mags that is)

Last thing for the night was a complete washing top to bottom, nose to tail.