Jeff R
Well Known Member
This waiting for replacement parts to arrive has been the pits!
Being at the opposite corner of the country from Vans and waiting some 10 or 11 days has forced me to, egads, actually resort to cleaning up the shop a little bit. I have finished up most of those tasks on the empennage that I can do without these parts, and the withdrawal pains have been severe indeed. But, tonight, I will be back in action! The tracking log shows my parts have finally made it onto the local delivery truck. Everything now should come together. I am taking a few days off next week to attend Comic-Con (yes, I have teenagers and, no, they are not boys and, no, even with an interest in comic books and even Star Trek, they are not into airplanes and think "riveting" is how you would describe a Harry Potter action scene). Anyway, as I was starting to say, I should get the empennage finally finished before I leave the middle of next week, and the wing kit is supposed to be shipped about the time I get back, so hopefully, I will have that kit by the weekend of the week I get back home. Having a few days to further clean and organize the shop to accept a long crate of wing parts will be good. Ever since I opened the garage door to my shop one day and looked down at a pretty colored snake with yellow-red-yellow banding near my feet,
I am pretty careful about cleaning up and where I put my hands. (I blame that incident on some sloppy riveting I did ? hands were shaking from my near-death experience!)
Even though the empennage construction has been a challenge at times, and while it has even brought forth some colorful adjectives on occasion (rare for me) in an expression of disgust at my apparent lack of intelligence, it has all been a blast and I can't wait to start on the wing.
Being at the opposite corner of the country from Vans and waiting some 10 or 11 days has forced me to, egads, actually resort to cleaning up the shop a little bit. I have finished up most of those tasks on the empennage that I can do without these parts, and the withdrawal pains have been severe indeed. But, tonight, I will be back in action! The tracking log shows my parts have finally made it onto the local delivery truck. Everything now should come together. I am taking a few days off next week to attend Comic-Con (yes, I have teenagers and, no, they are not boys and, no, even with an interest in comic books and even Star Trek, they are not into airplanes and think "riveting" is how you would describe a Harry Potter action scene). Anyway, as I was starting to say, I should get the empennage finally finished before I leave the middle of next week, and the wing kit is supposed to be shipped about the time I get back, so hopefully, I will have that kit by the weekend of the week I get back home. Having a few days to further clean and organize the shop to accept a long crate of wing parts will be good. Ever since I opened the garage door to my shop one day and looked down at a pretty colored snake with yellow-red-yellow banding near my feet,
Even though the empennage construction has been a challenge at times, and while it has even brought forth some colorful adjectives on occasion (rare for me) in an expression of disgust at my apparent lack of intelligence, it has all been a blast and I can't wait to start on the wing.