July 17, 2005

This weekend has been a pretty good one at the hangar. It’s been pretty warm, yesterday was rainy so it was horribly humid. Today was much better though, which is good for painting…..

Yesterday’s epoxy cured nicely, so today would be a day of prep and paint. I have a few parts together now for painting. I also removed the roll over bar from the fuselage and got it ready for painting. This took me a while! That powder coat Van’s uses is pretty tough stuff!

Here are the parts I primed today. This is all the stuff for the centre console, and heatbox.

Here’s the roll over bar hanging from the ‘washing line’.

I need to order an AN3-24 bolt for the throttle quadrant so I can put the friction lock on when I assemble the console together. I also need to work out control cables. I’m not sure where I’m going to penetrate the firewall yet. I was planning to wait until the engine arrives to see where the best locations are. I’d really like them to not be visible when you look into the footwell areas if I can help it.