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| Subject: | Re: Empennage Kit Arrived! |
Well, here is my story.
I was expecting the kit to arrive Wednesday at my place of business. I normally
drive a pickup truck but, on that day, I was dropping my youngest daughter off
at school for Drivers Education, and she wanted me to take her in the older
daughters WB Beetle. Something about not wanting to be seen in an old, in-need-of-washing
truck teenaged girls dont like. OK, no problem. I will save gas.
So, I get to work, check the Fed Ex page to see where my kit is and, lo, it
is on the delivery truck! Well, no way will that empennage kit fit in a Beetle.
Dern. Wait, my sister-in-law works here, too, so I can load it up in her
van and get it home. That works, so I looking forward to actually getting off
work a bit early so I can get home and open my packages, using the excuse of
having to go pickup my daughter, of course, but later my daughter decides she
wants me to drop her and a friend off at the mall for a while. Grrrrr. I want
to go home and look at my airplane-making parts. How many fathers win these
kinds of arguments with their 15 y/o daughters? I drop her off at the mall
and come back to work to make up for ordering airplane things during working
hours, until I finally get the call to come pick them up. Finally! I get home,
haul the kit packages to the shop and am about to tear in to them when I remember,
hey, I need to take some pictures. Everyone takes pictures of their boxes
before they open them up! So, I rush back to the house (my shop is about
150 feet away from the house), get back, arrange the packages to be photoesque,
turn on the camera and..nothing. What? Yeah, the battery was dead! Ugh.
OK, I rush back to the house and grab the charger, bring it out to the shop and
let it charge a few minutes while I finish up some work on a drawer I had been
doing previously and in to which my new tools will go. I put the battery
back in and..still dead. Back in the charger the battery goes and I say the heck
with pictures, Im checking this thing out! So, I open the smaller bo!
x and ta
ke out every paper-wrapped piece and lay it out on top of my table saw, figuring
that the battery will certainly have enough charge by the time I am done to
get a picture. Well, I was wrong. Back into the charger. I hope the battery
is not damaged and isnt taking a charge at all! I unwrapped all the parts and
marveled at the ribs and things, and put them back into the box for safety,
saving all of the paper (I have heard you should save the paper for later use).
Oh, I didnt unwrap the fiberglass parts, not wanting to risk scratching them.
I moved the box to the side and lifted up the bigger box, clip the straps
and open er up and was beholdened by the site of pre-formed, blue-plastic covered
aluminum. Surely by now the battery has enough charge to get a few pictures.
I loaded the battery in the camera and .yes! it powered up. I was able to
actually get a few pictures this time, some of which I will eventually post.
I didnt disturb the contents of the box as I didnt want to risk damaging anything.
The mosquitoes were starting to get bad (I will need and A/C in my shop)
so I took the manual inside to read, and tonight (Wednesday) I will try to
do an inventory. My hand surgery will be really simple tomorrow. It really shouldnt
impair me much at all. The main injury is healing, so all they will do
is make a small cut to remove an imbedded splinter. I will probably start working
on the project later that day.
But, I ordered some of my tools from Brown, mainly a Sioux 3x gun and air drill
which they had a special on, but most of the materials are coming from Plane
Tools. With a pneumatic squeezer and DRDT-2 dimpler, and an adjustable set thrown
in for free, their tool kit was a best value, IMHO. The Brown items are
already on their way, and the Plane Tools parts should arrive next week. They
had a slight delay awaiting a new shipment of dimplers. Both companies have been
great to work with. Shaun was really helpful and I am expecting some great
tools from him.
Thanks to everyone who has been making suggestions and wishing me well. I am really
a bit overwhelmed with the support being shown.
Jeff
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