Tuesday 26th February 2008 2hr 30min
Etched and primeed EET-602B trim servo mounts. Removed primer from trailing edge location on right elevator and rudder left and right skins
These are the very last empennage parts to be primed. Boy am I glad to get to this stage. The spray booth takes up a lot of space, making working on the benches and moving around to my storage bins and saw, scotchbrite wheel, etc very tiresome. Also, I have not found this priming very easy. I need to go over to Frank Vogels to get some training in the use of his products before I take on priming the wing parts.
The Dremel wire brushes proved to be better quality and were much slower to wear out than my Chinese originals. Still, I went through 4 of them while doing the right elevator and right and left rudder skin trailing edges. Still, its done now. I should have done more thinking before hand about where primer should go and where it should not.
Sorry, no photos this evening
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Factory prototype of the taildragger RV-9
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- Total Cost to date: €9536
- Total time to date: 609hr 12min
- Of which: Empennage: 280hr 35min
- ..............Wings: 326hr 37min
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Factory prototype of the taildragger RV-9
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- Loman O'Byrne
- Dublin, Ireland
- It's a little embarrasing isn't it. I mean men in their 50s should know better than to spend large amounts of money on fantasy (vanity?) projects like this. They should have more sense than to indulge their raging mid-life crises. They should devote themselves to their managerial state-sector jobs. They should prioritise their wife and two kids, even though the kids are almost grown up. They should not undertake complex engineering projects when they have no engineering background and only average DIY skills. They shouldn't take over half of their tiny back gardens to build a workshop that's not even big enough for the project. They should take more interest in other leisure pursuits like golf and following rugby football. They.... I know, I know, I know....but I just gotta!
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