{"id":4568,"date":"2016-12-03T23:42:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T23:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/?p=4568"},"modified":"2016-12-03T23:42:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T23:42:14","slug":"paint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/?p=4568","title":{"rendered":"Paint!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I dropped off the plane for paint today in Chino at Century Air Paint. \u00a0The process involved removing all control surfaces and fairings. \u00a0 But along the way there was some, uh, stuff, mostly having to do with wires that needed to be cut.<\/p>\n

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  1. Tail lamp and strobe: \u00a0 Will need to be reconnected. \u00a0 Need strobe wire molex and pins. \u00a0Or barrels. \u00a0Need to look that up.<\/li>\n
  2. Elevators: Need new set of DB9 socket barrels for trim tab motor control.<\/li>\n
  3. Flaps: \u00a0Look at platenut options, because drilling out the pop rivets for the hinge pin retainer fooken sucked.<\/li>\n
  4. Need to repair\/resolder ground wire on red nav light board<\/li>\n
  5. Will need to drill\/realign gear fairings to fit new intersection fairings.<\/li>\n
  6. Need new MR16 ceramic bulb connector for nav light.<\/li>\n
  7. Anti-chafe tape (forgot what it’s called) – for underside of wing skin where flap rides<\/li>\n
  8. rubber grommets for strobe\/tail light<\/li>\n
  9. rubber grommets for trim tab wire<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Some tools will be needed for this op:<\/p>\n

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    1. #40 bits<\/li>\n
    2. #30 bits<\/li>\n
    3. Flush cutters<\/li>\n
    4. AFM8 crimper<\/li>\n
    5. multimeter<\/li>\n
    6. Red and blue inline wire connectors<\/li>\n
    7. Connector crimper<\/li>\n
    8. Extra wire<\/li>\n
    9. The usual aircraft tool container<\/li>\n
    10. Need new MR16 ceramic bulb connector for nav light.<\/li>\n
    11. Anti-chafe tape (forgot what it’s called) – for underside of wing skin where flap rides<\/li>\n
    12. rubber grommets for strobe\/tail light<\/li>\n
    13. rubber grommets for trim tab wire<\/li>\n
    14. 8R8 platenuts, single sided<\/li>\n
    15. Functional #40 size Cogsdill deburring tool<\/li>\n
    16. #30 size Cogsdill deburring tool<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Hopefully this list will allow me to put back all the things I took off, then fly it home after the paint job. \u00a0 If you’re wondering about color, it’s going to be BMW Singapore Grey, with black tips and spinner. \u00a0Like so:
      \n\"2013-bmw-m6-gran-coupe-singapore-grey\"<\/p>\n

      Full credit for the photo goes to Performance Drive, and you can view the full article here:
      \nhttp:\/\/performancedrive.com.au\/2013-bmw-m6-gran-coupe-review-video-2206\/<\/a><\/p>\n

       <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      I dropped off the plane for paint today in Chino at Century Air Paint. \u00a0The process involved removing all control surfaces and fairings. \u00a0 But along the way there was some, uh, stuff, mostly having to do with wires that needed to be cut. Tail lamp and strobe: \u00a0 Will need to be reconnected. \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4570,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4568\/revisions\/4570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}