claycookiemonster
Well Known Member
Remember in "Groundhog Day" when Bill Murray is teaching the groundhog to drive, and he comments, "Don't drive angry!"
Same goes for your build project.
Yes, it's important to keep it moving, and doing something, anything every day is a good way to get it done, but there are days when it's best to leave it alone. I just buggered up a replacement rudder (the original was damaged by insufficient packing during transportation) by transferring frustration from beyond the workshop to my back-riveting - and I went right past the edge of the back rivet plate. Creased the skin and the stiffener. Perhaps still usable.
I know it's an easy mistake to make; I'm not the first to do it, but I did it because my mind was elsewhere and not on the task at hand. Fortunately it's an easy part to re-do. Sadly, it's a hard lesson to learn.
Repetitive tasks like back-riveting stiffeners can allow your mind to wander - sometimes wandering to unhappy places and we all have people or situations we'd really LOVE to hit with a rivet gun; and hit far harder than a tiny 3-3.5 rivet in a rudder skin can handle.
Same goes for your build project.
Yes, it's important to keep it moving, and doing something, anything every day is a good way to get it done, but there are days when it's best to leave it alone. I just buggered up a replacement rudder (the original was damaged by insufficient packing during transportation) by transferring frustration from beyond the workshop to my back-riveting - and I went right past the edge of the back rivet plate. Creased the skin and the stiffener. Perhaps still usable.
I know it's an easy mistake to make; I'm not the first to do it, but I did it because my mind was elsewhere and not on the task at hand. Fortunately it's an easy part to re-do. Sadly, it's a hard lesson to learn.
Repetitive tasks like back-riveting stiffeners can allow your mind to wander - sometimes wandering to unhappy places and we all have people or situations we'd really LOVE to hit with a rivet gun; and hit far harder than a tiny 3-3.5 rivet in a rudder skin can handle.
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