Fuse Kit Shipped

Post by **Spike** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 7:53 am

It went out yesterday!!! WOOOHOOO. Building this thing sure is irresponsible, but darn its fun.

Spike

cjensen · Post by **cjensen** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 8:07 am

That's fantastic news Spike!!! There's never anything fun about responsibility! Can't wait to see the pics!

Post by **bullojm1** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 8:26 am

Spike-

Congrats on getting the fuse shipped! You getting it delivered to your house or doing a dock pickup? I think a dock pickup saved me about $100 or so. If you don't have a pickup, and want to do the dock pickup (if its worth it), I can grab my old mans pickup (in Marriottsville) and save ya some money.

Post by **Spike** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 8:42 am

I have a pickup, though the kit is scheduled to come to my house. I do think I have located a friend who owns a business with loading dock and forklift. If the freight company will let me I think I might have it shipped there to make it easier on everyone.

John

Post by **bullojm1** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 9:02 am

Spike-

A dock pickup is when you go to ABF and pick it up at their distribution center (Should be Elkridge, MD for you). You can call up ABF anytime to change your delivery option to this and get the difference in price.

Post by **Spike** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 9:08 am

Yeah, I was just thinking about what I was considering. If its in Elkridge thats a no brainer as I work next to BWI. Wonder if they will have some muscle to help me get it into the truck. Then I can just try to get some people to meet me at my house to get it out of the truck into the shed.

John

Post by **bullojm1** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 9:24 am

Spike-

I picked mine up at Elkridge and they used a forklift to put it in the pickup. I have used dock deliveries for all the big subkits and ABF has always helped out. You won't have any problems going there by yourself.

dons · Post by **dons** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 1:27 pm

Good to hear the next kit is on the way John.

Bob Barrett · Post by **Bob Barrett** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:20 pm

Spike make sure your pickup can handle the weifht and length of the fuselage kit! Not all pickups are created equal. I hired a guy with a "Beaver tail" truck bed to deliver my quick build fuselage and quickbuild wing kits. Those boxes were to big and heavy for my 4'X8' trailer which can haul a ton of rock. The Beaver tail truck bed can raize up and slide back to almost put the crates on your garage floor. I used some four foot lengths of galvanized steel pipe and rolled my crates around with the help of my wife and a pry bar. It cost me about a $100 and was well worth the money.

Congratulations and good luck!

Post by **Spike** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:23 pm

I have a Dodge 2500 w the Cummins. If the dimensions on van's website are right I should have no issues with getting it into the bed with the tail gate down.

weezbad · Post by **weezbad** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 4:35 pm

Spike wrote:It went out yesterday!!! WOOOHOOO. Building this thing sure is irresponsible, but darn its fun.

Spike

its almost like you gotta hurry up before someone catches you.

Post by **Spike** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 5:50 pm

Yeah, exactly!

Wicked Stick · Post by **Wicked Stick** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 9:00 pm

Glad to hear Christmas is coming early this year at your shop.

Congrats !

Today I got to hang my wings, thanks to 3 helpers who had Friday afternoon free. They Slid right in with only a minor glitch.
1 rivet on each side interfered with the side skin. It's a common issue and the book says to remove some of the skin to get the clearance you need. After we marked the location, and dremmel'd out a bit of the side skin they slid right in and using the drift pins I bought for the engine hang, the bolts slid right in as the drift pins ahead of them helped to line it all up.

I'll post a Pic this weekend in the 8 forum.

BSwayze · Post by **BSwayze** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 1:54 am

Hey Spike,

Congratulations!! I just started on my fuse kit recently and I'm having a great time with it. Just take your time, spend some quality time studying the drawings, and you'll do fine. It's a lot of fun and variety, after all the work doing the wings.

Post by **Spike** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 9:31 am

I am really hoping so. The wings have been horribly monotonous and I have no desire to ever see another control surface / stiffener again. Funny thing is that the tanks were one of the most enjoyable processes of the wing build.

Spike

BSwayze · Post by **BSwayze** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 2:32 am

Spike wrote:I am really hoping so. The wings have been horribly monotonous and I have no desire to ever see another control surface / stiffener again. Funny thing is that the tanks were one of the most enjoyable processes of the wing build.

Spike

It's great to hear that, because I had the same thought! I kept thinking "what's up with all the talk of "black death" and all this dread of working with pro-seal and doing the tanks?" because it wasn't bad at all. I'd much rather build another set of tanks than go through all the trouble I had with the ailerons. I'm just so happy things turned out so well, and to have my wings finished.

airguy · Post by **airguy** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 12:41 pm

Agreed - while working with proseal is not in my top ten list, I don't think it's nearly as bad as people talk about. I'm even doing twice as much of it, by building the main tanks and converting the outboard leading edge to auxiliary tanks.

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