I learned a lesson today. Slow down. Any other builders have to learn this hard way (several expensive parts replaced in the empennage)?
My friends and family know me as a guy who likes to work fast... they joke with me that my plane will be done in a year. When I get going, I get very eager to get to the next step. When something goes wrong, I tend to obsess about it and my instinct is to get it fixed NOW. Then I do a rushed job of fixing it, without stopping for a day to think.
So the less to myself after today (ruined an elevator skin) is to slow down. I won't be able to afford to keep this up if I keep ruining parts (like wing skins... wouldn't that suck...)
My friends and family know me as a guy who likes to work fast... they joke with me that my plane will be done in a year. When I get going, I get very eager to get to the next step. When something goes wrong, I tend to obsess about it and my instinct is to get it fixed NOW. Then I do a rushed job of fixing it, without stopping for a day to think.
So the less to myself after today (ruined an elevator skin) is to slow down. I won't be able to afford to keep this up if I keep ruining parts (like wing skins... wouldn't that suck...)