Why does this take so long?

[eric_marsh]

Originally Posted by Allan Stern

From glancing at your blog, it seems you bought a kit from someone else who started on that project and gave up? Looks to be a "slow" build project? That was why I decided to go with a quick build 6A kit. And my quick build took me @ 6years to complete. So work on it a bit at a time each day and you will get it done one piece at a time.

Yes, my kit is a very old one, so it's a slow build. As far as I can tell it was sold somewhere around 1992 which means that it doesn't even have the punched skins. I've had to do a number of things that the owner of a new kit wouldn't have to do such as cut lighting holes into ribs and of course drill the skins. This doesn't really bother me much, it gives me some additional things to learn and do.

I've got two metal shelf sets in my shop. When I inventoried everything I created a spread sheet identifying which shelf each part went on to. Even so sometimes it takes some time trying to find a particular item. Not so long as it would take otherwise though.

While my kit is old it appears to have been stored well. Everything is in good shape and only a handful of items are missing. There are some parts that have been superseded and in fact I just ordered the W-425 set to upgrade the W-419s in the original drawings.

Since I wrote this article I've made a point of spending that five minutes each day it it seems to be making a real difference. Great idea! That should do a lot to put things back on track.