Empennage kit arrived today. Lots of little pieces and some big pieces. Shelley totally rocked, she helped me inventory everything out of the boxes, but I did the little bags of rivets and other fasteners by myself. I wound up needing 3 of those little plastic organizers and a little tupperware tub to fit and sort everything. Gotta tell you though, the P-Touch totally rules, even though the interface blows.
When Fedex shows up with this, it’s a happy day.. Except for the pulled shoulder muscle.
Here’s the unpacking.. So much blue and silver jumping out all at once.
By the power of Greyskull…
Imagine my surprise when I pulled all that stuff out of the box and realized I had no friggin’ idea how big all that stuff actually is.. If you have a 2-car garage, it’s no big thing, but I’m hosed. I had to get really creative, and among the solutions was helping my wife clean out the garden shed so we could put all our lawn crap in there. Sunday was carpentry and Garage Stuff Tetris. Turned out OK though. Check it:
Rebuilt the main workbench to be on wheels, with a slab of MDF on top. The original surface (2×12’s) became the shelf below. Now I can move this thing to the middle of the space and get to all sides, while keeping all my aircraft tools in proper storage. There’s also a new bench on wheels for the grinder and the bandsaw. And to top it all off, I managed to get yet a couple more years of use out of those black IKEA shelves from 3 apartments ago.
Skins are stored in the rafters. Yeah, I know, it gets warm up there and the plastic will get runny, then hard and brittle. Working on it. It’s just too damn convenient that the semi-folded skins match my roofline.
A dork and his airplane. Awww.
Here’s a better shot of the below-storage area. And the presentation easel to hold the big drawings.
And notice the caption scrawled hastily on the foam-core below the plans.
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