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Date:  2-11-2007
Number of Hours:  2.30
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Brief Description:  Prep one more skin and retire an old friend

Today was Sunday. After church, I went to the office for about an hour to finish one project then I headed to the airport for a little flight time. It was a beautiful day and my buddy Frank Settle was going to act as PIC so I could get a little right seat time (I have not renewed my medical certificate yet, so I can't officially fly as Pilot In Command yet). When I got to the ramp, however, Princess (Cessna Skyhawk N8371L) had a bad right brake. Bummer. When I got back home, I decided to knock out one fuselage skin panel. I un-clecoed the right middle side skin and commenced the drill (you know, debur, smooth, scuff, dimple and prime). If I can do one skin panel a day, I should finish the fuselage skin prep next week. When I was dimpling the skin, I saw a big chunk of grey rubber fly off the deadblow hammer that I use to pound out the dimples. Sure enough, the hammer is coming apart after about a jillion dimple blows. I purchased this hammer when the project first began, just for dimpling. Looks like I wore it out. I bought another at Home Depot and then retired the old one to the wall of shame.
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The fuselage slowly losing skin panels to processing

The fuselage slowly losing skin panels to processing

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My deadblow hammer coming apart

My deadblow hammer coming apart

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Retired to the wall of shame (next to a boogered tail rib

Retired to the wall of shame (next to a boogered tail rib

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