NetHeads, I don't know if I've mentioned it or not, but the big crunch is over at work (although another one is brewing on another project) and I've informed the powers that be that I will be taking every morning off for the next two months. We either have to use our vacation or lose it, and I've been losing for the last few months. My plan is to hit the hangar at 6:00 AM (my usual appearance time for "real work"), and will get in a good four hours a day of body work and whatever else needs to be done during the coolest part of the day. Then the hot hangar creates the perfect oven for curing so I can sand that evening or wait until the next morning, and I spend the afternoon in my air conditioned office. The goal is to make the plane less embarrasing, and head towards "completion". Stuff like lights and strobes, wheel pants, instrument panel glare shield (with lighting), spinner, "finishing" the wings, stub wing gap seals, and that sort of thing. In only one week I've already fixed most of the big bubbles in the skin, uncovered the landing lights (I need to make new plexiglas covers, ever since one of my kids fried them by turning them on in the basement while they were covered with black electrical tape), halfway finished the spinner, etc.
And oh, did I mention I fly it early in the morning or late afternoon almost every day? Then I do some more bodywork and head home. Maybe I'll even get a new cowling done for it before the Gathering, although that's probably just a dream. I'm still thinking that paint will be next Spring, but it's possible I could get crazy and do it this Fall, if I really do get to take off as much as I'm hoping. I'll also build another 3100cc Corvair engine, if I ever get the parts I need (special machine work to the parts, I should say). 265 KR hours and 620 KR landings to date, not counting the bounces. The weather has been really calm and rain free lately, so I can fly just about any time I want to. Life is good. Back to the spinner bulkhead... Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net --------------------------------------------------------------
