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Michaels Web Site
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Date: 3-17-2012
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Number of Hours: 2.00
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Manual Reference: several
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Brief Description: Paint, weights, panel, fuel...
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I keep running into the problem that I can't do "this" until I do "that." Case in point. I want to install the glare shield fabric, but I can't do that until I rivet in the instrument panel. I can't rivet the instrument panel until I paint it. I can't paint it until I make the instrument cutouts. I can't make the instrument cutouts until I know for sure all of the instruments, switches, etc. But since I'm nearly a year away (I figure) from buying and installing instruments, I can't do that. See what I mean? Lots more of those conundrums, too.
So tonight I...
- Added clear coat to the wing tip. The clear coat will make the paint wrinkle unless you put the clear coat on VERY thin (a mist) and do each coat a couple of days apart (ask me how I know!). Photo #1.
- Pulled the painter's tape off the right aileron, and then installed the counterweight (photo #2). Next will be balancing.
- Now that the gas tank is installed, I riveted in the lower cross beam for the instrument panel. I also rough-cut the glare shiels fabric (photo #3).
more stuff on the next page...
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Puting clear coat on the lower side of the wing tip.
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Aileron: masking tape removed; counterweight added.
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Lower cross member of instrument panel riveted in place.
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