OK Funsters, I'm plodding along with this. We had our first day in the 20's yesterday ( yes Celsius it's what everyone uses except you guys) and that said "paint"......
She's been looking a little ragged since the engine swap what with some wholesale changes to the engine mounts and a whole lot of other stuff. When we did the initial swap we were in such a hurry that we just cut stuff off as neatly as practicable in a shop where the prop doesn't like sparks going anywhere. So Lee my erstwhile sidekick and funnyman and I spent a day directing streams of grinder sparks into each other's faces and got rid of all the jagged and nasty stuff in the engine bay. Until yesterday it has been too cold to contemplate paint as the alkyd resin just skins and then takes about ten years to dry properly if applied when it is too cold.
We took off the front and rear radius rods liberating a few cups of red dust from the mounts and cleaned those up. Removed the brake lines and some extinguisher lines and scuffed up what remained of the precious yellow paint on the aft part of the frame.
The primer went on at lunch time and after we had a beer and Lee left I looked at the temp, it was still 23 degrees, "
"stuff this" I thought and shot the yellow. I went out this morning and gave it a look over and it's well, it's yellow....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKNxeF4KMsYIn other news if anyone wants a fuel tank don't ask me, I have had a long running battle with my "intelligent"welder trying to weld stainless, to coin a phrase I.H.G.M.F how to run it properly. Yesterday we pulled the wire out and ran it in my little 200A "dumb" welder with supa-argon and it seemed to be a whole lot happier. Despite Lee's best effort to keep me on track and to dampen the impulses it is nowhere near done, has more than it's fair share of lumps and bumps and some higher power might possibly have an idea whether it will seal.....