My original plan was to scratch build the fuselage and order the QB wings. Then, fate intervened. A QB owner on the East Coast was selling his kit. Of course I live on the West Coast. When we agreed upon a price I then had to figure out how to get the kit from the other side of the country. I looked at every possible option and the most cost effective method was to drive the PU truck cross country with a rented car carrier in tow. This is how Avipro delivers the kits so I thought it would work for me as well. I can be so silly sometimes! The trip out took 3.5 days with no problems. The owner suggested we shrink wrap the kit in the white plastic stuff they put around boats when they are transported on the highway. Made sense to me because that is how the kits are delivered from Avipro. This is where things started to go downhill. Neither one of us had ever done this before, but ha, how hard could it be? Problem #1. We didn’t wrap the shrink wrap all the way around the kit. We used a pry bar to lift the kit and push a couple of feet of the wrap under the kit. The weight of the kit would hold it secure while we heated the wrap to shrink it. Problem #2. The way you apply heat to this stuff to get it to shrink is to use a propane tank powered blow torch. This thing was more like the burner on a hot air balloon than a hand held blow torch.
Before shrinking
After shrinking--note duct tape repairs where we over heated the wrap
