Hangar Lighting Improvements

Hangar Lighting Improvements

As I mentioned, we have 240V service in the new hangar, and the shop has been wired with about a dozen circuits, which is nice, though they’re only on two walls. We’ll be adding some circuits to the other walls, and we’ve added heating to the already installed air conditioning. We’ve also installed 10 double […]

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Attaching Heater to Sump

Attaching Heater to Sump

We’re gearing up to move into our new diggs, but in the meantime we potted our door pin receiver covers in, and installed the Reiff preheat system. Also you can see the spray foam we’re making the beauty covers on the sides of the footwells. Sump prepared Sump heating element For formatting only Lorem ipsum […]

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Door Pin Covers, Part II

Door Pin Covers, Part II

We worked on the door covers some more today, and should be ready to pot them in tomorrow. I also put the cylinder band heaters on the cylinders (which went pretty well aside from #3 which really didn’t want to wrap around). I’ll put the sump heater on tomorrow. We also covered all of the […]

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Window Frames, Part I

Window Frames, Part I

I tried to fit the window covers to the windows. Like my buddy Andy, I wasn’t happy with how they fit, and I had to do covers for the strake windows anyway, so I elected to make my own covers. The West epoxy didn’t seem to want to stick Triax on the ceiling, though, so […]

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Windscreen Upholstery Cover

Windscreen Upholstery Cover

We brought the fuselage back to the hangar today. The airport was great about letting us store it, the canard, and the cowling in the back of the FBO’s hangar to give us a little more space, and not have to worry about overspray (and about painting in our hangar generally). Jerry worked on installing […]

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Clear Coating Control Surfaces

Clear Coating Control Surfaces

We ran out tonight just long enough to clear coat the ailerons and elevators to kick off the long weekend. I want to get the fuselage back into the hangar on Saturday so we can work on it, so we needed to be done with painting. They look nice, and I’m officially bringing the paint […]

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