Today was spent inventing a servo operated choke. I have never had one always believing that a simple lever from the choke arm would be easiest and most reliable. It has been so for many a year but now with the refurb of the old girl I thought it time to give it a go.Think time on this was a couple of hours with failed trials of this and that. Finally I managed to squeeze a servo in and link it to the (cut short) direct choke lever. The servo was positioned on the front left upper firewall. Looks untidy but it is solid and works well. The gear lever on the Tx is now my choke.
That's it, the little upside down Hitec 645 MG servo top centre pic.
Another item ready for change were the aileron and flap servo leads dangling down inside the fuse cabin across the huge scale fuel tank amidships. The jazzy colours of those leads did not quite sit right so to speak. Black, big bore heat shrink plastic tubing would be threaded over the pair of leads so that they were not as obvious. After shrinking the leads did look a lot less obvious.
Sorry for quality of pic, but you get the idea.
The massive Lysander fuel tank. The pilot had to look over his shoulder to read the petrol guage !
To get the choke servo lead back to the Rx I had to take the dash away again. The black canister is the iconic Moki ignition system. It stores a wealth of info for the factory. Including top rpm run. It also has a rev limiter which cuts out the engine if she over revs..
90% of this is in the dark ... which is probably just as well.
A better shot of the passenger seat/ gunner's seat when machine gun fitted. It was never used in this SOE Lysander. The wire trailing carelessly across the top of the pic is one of the 3 sats leads. Everywhere the is a stringer there are full length pinked cloth tapes covering the cloth covering outside. They stop where the skin changes to metal fore and aft.
Aft metal skin on the right of the pic.
Multiple tapes along the side.
Cloth now covered at front end by metal skin in area of engine.
This "isolation" has its advantages ! 
So far so good, the Grim Reaper has not a calling come as yet. 
Later, Lurkers.
Ken
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