Our schedules finally matched up and TJ made it out to help bend metal.
A local pilot owns a boat building shop. There was a sign inside I loved, it said "No smoking, no loafing. State your name, you job, and GET OUT. We have work to do."
It was unbelieveable how fast those guys did what would have taken me all day or more to do half as well.
"What can I do to help?"
"Leave."
"Ok."
An hour later he was packing his tools, the new mount was perfectly fitted, and the gunslinger was on the way to the next town. I'm undoing the lacing in preparation for rearranging the wire bundles.The cardboard pieces are mockups of the various black boxes that will be fitted. CAD/CAM is great, but sometimes it's better just to have a physical piece of something to move around and check with.
TJ also left me with some other work. Though he trusted my glassing job, he hinted that he'd really like to see a 4" layer of glass around the bulkhead, just to be safe. No worries, I'm getting good at glassing again.
He also pointed out how little of the bow reinforcement plate was actually touching the hull, so I made up a slurry and glassed the plate in place.
Time to pay the piper, off to work I go for the next few weeks, but on the way I could not resist stopping and seeing the 737Max parking lot.
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A local pilot owns a boat building shop. There was a sign inside I loved, it said "No smoking, no loafing. State your name, you job, and GET OUT. We have work to do."
It was unbelieveable how fast those guys did what would have taken me all day or more to do half as well.
"What can I do to help?"
"Leave."
"Ok."
An hour later he was packing his tools, the new mount was perfectly fitted, and the gunslinger was on the way to the next town. I'm undoing the lacing in preparation for rearranging the wire bundles.The cardboard pieces are mockups of the various black boxes that will be fitted. CAD/CAM is great, but sometimes it's better just to have a physical piece of something to move around and check with.
TJ also left me with some other work. Though he trusted my glassing job, he hinted that he'd really like to see a 4" layer of glass around the bulkhead, just to be safe. No worries, I'm getting good at glassing again.
He also pointed out how little of the bow reinforcement plate was actually touching the hull, so I made up a slurry and glassed the plate in place.
Time to pay the piper, off to work I go for the next few weeks, but on the way I could not resist stopping and seeing the 737Max parking lot.
.....
