The perfect day to build ...

Post by **Spike** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 12:16 pm

Otherwise known as the values of a good shop.

This is the Mid Atlantic this weekend.

Though its nice and warm in the shop looking outside ..

Spike

RobDob · Post by **RobDob** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 12:18 pm

The hangar I'm building in is no where near as warm as yours so I'm taking a few weeks off!

Post by **bullojm1** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 12:35 pm

Heya there Spike-

Of course I am in the same boat as you are being about 30 miles away from you. My garage heater is crankin (also the electric meter is) and I am sanding and filling away on my canopy. Perfect day to build 'cause there's nothin' else to do!

Post by **Spike** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 1:32 pm

Amen to that. Nothing quite like sipping a warm beverage, bending some aluminum and watching a rip roaring snow storm! Though as you mentioned, I don't even want to consider how fast that 'lectric meter is spinning!

Brantel · Post by **Brantel** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 1:43 pm

Great day unless your airplane is in the hangar!!! Snowed a good 6" at my house last night.

Has not snowed good here in years and when I move my airplane to the hangar, we get sub freezing for weeks and snow twice.

My luck....I hoped to fly this thing early March but unless this weather gets back to reasonable, that is going to be tough.

Unheatable hangars suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have a propane infrared heater that I sit right behind me when trying to work and that helps but it starts to wear on you after a while. Plus $20 for propane every 4-6 hours starts to hurt!

Post by **Spike** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 2:26 pm

Yipes. I can see where that would get annoying. Though, quit yer whining, you after all are already at the airport, with a plane that you have built, getting ready to make thousands of people look up at you when you cross over them.

A lucky group we are

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 3:45 pm

That stuff is supposta had reached us up here by now. Nuttin yet...

We have a Christmas party to attend tonight but you can bet that I will be snowed in and tinkering tomorrow!

CJ

hydroguy2 · Post by **hydroguy2** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 6:49 pm

Nice glad someone else is suffering the snow/cold. We had a bunch of sub zero a few weeks ago. Today it was 40*F....can you say Heat wave.

Brian, something I found that helps for short work sessions. I use a double 300W halogen work light and position the stand near me.

cjensen · Post by **cjensen** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 9:19 am

I love that scene Spike...seriously! I know snow storms bring things to a screeching halt, but I agree 100% with ya that there ain't much better than what you described! It'll happen for us sooner or later...'course all I have to work on at home now is my 36" RC RV-7...

Probably wouldn't be able to get to the hangar to work on the "real" one!

Post by **Spike** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 12:22 pm

Today I paid for it by shoveling for 5 hours. And that was only 1/2 of the driveway. I'll let the sun take care of the other half.

Mike Balzer · Post by **Mike Balzer** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 12:39 pm

One of the Aircraft Mechanic Instructors flew up to MD to see his kids for X-Mass on Friday. It looks like he got there just in the nick of time before they closed all landings of planes.

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 12:55 pm

SHOVELING!?!

What is that??? No freaking way with my herniated disks!!!

I blew it all outta the way, Karen has made a kitchen full of food and now I am heading out to the shop to do some fuel & vent line plumbing!

Fa la la la la la la la laaaaa!

CJ

Post by **Spike** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 1:53 pm

OK CJ, technicall, 3 of the 5 hours were with at a blower. The manual labor was relative to getting he cars out and handing areas where the blower doesn't do so great. That bottom inch can be a real pain too.

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 3:13 pm

Whew!!!

I thought for a bit that you were doing it the old fashioned way!

My back is so screwed up that if the blower doesn't touch it, it stays where mother nature left it!

I don't mess with the detail part of making the driveway black again.

If we get less than 6" I am inclined to leave it where it fell!

They say that this stuff will be around through Christmas for us though!!!

I am good widdat!

(Gettin' much done in the shop today!!! I didn't know I was so disorganized! Not anymore!!!)

CJ

Post by **Spike** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 3:26 pm

The problem here in MD is that it can never decide if its frozen or thawed. So if you leave the 1" there and don't get it back to black, then it will go through freeze / thaw cycles during the day / night until you have a perfectly beautiful sheet of glass.

Its a good way to kill yerself.

Spike

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 6:14 pm

Well, I unnerstand that! We pretty much can do the same thing here too.

I have perfectly level ground between the house and garage so my chance of doing a dixie is minimal.

The problem is with the little Wyatt dog. He has low clearance and can't make it up hamburger hill to draw his mud!

He can only make it out to the back yard and that totally un-trains him from pooping on the lawn come summer! It happens every year. Karen's dog, Zoey (Norwegian Elkhound) is a freakin ATHELETE and can clammer up the iciest hill like a mountain goat! I am hoping that she will break the trail for Wyatt!

BTW, I actually made progress on the plane today with all that was going on! To top it all off, school is canceled for Monday so I have another day to tinker!!!

CJ

jimpappas · Post by **jimpappas** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 3:34 pm

Man this string between Spike and Captain John has SO many possible meanings to it that could be taken which make it way more funny than you guys intended it I'm sure.....

Blown disks? Last inch? Wow!

Merry Christmas you guys

BSwayze · Post by **BSwayze** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 4:09 pm

Hey CJ,

I'm gettin'ready to do some fuel and brake line plumbing myself here, very soon!

Got any pics? Keep us posted on how it's going, okay?

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 10:30 pm

Jim, U betcha!!! The innuendo is my specialty!!!!

Bruce, check out my brake line post, lots of detail there!

BTW, I just did my vent lines and will be doing the fuel lines from the tank soon. I will post pics later.

Keep in touch!!!

CJ