Brief Description: Reconfigure Shop for Fuselage Work
I'm back in the shop today after my Christmas trip to Texas and Statesville, NC. We had a great time, but I was ready to be home and working again. I put the fuselage on a small rolling trailer I have and moved it out of the garage so I could reconfigure things. I sawed the legs off of my smaller work table so it's now 16" tall. The fuselage is resting on a 4x4 cut the width of the gear channel. After getting the fuselage back in the garage, I moved the 4'x8' table in front of it - leaving a space to walk by to get out the garage door. There's a 3-foot space between the front of the fuselage and the table - plenty of room to work. I drew up this floor plan to scale on TurboCad and moved things around until I had the most room to work - then went out to the garage and put things where I had planned. It worked great. I have the best possible use of space and didn't have to experiment in the real world. It was all done on my computer.
Fuselage sitting on low (16" high) table
There's 3 feet between the fuslage and front table
