Today I started early in the morning by rearranging things in the hangar. I made a pair of large saw horses to support one of my temporary work tables, which will free up the plastic factory-made saw horses for paint booth duty, and more immediately, support the left wing. With the rotisserie parts out of the way, I was able to install the last few nutplates on the root. Having access to the front of the left wing means that I can start working on the pitot tube mount again. The challenge is making a mount that will allow for removal of the pitot tube. If I were doing all of this again from the start, I would have gone with a mast-mounted pitot. The best solution that I could come up with was a sleeve that will join the tube itself to another tube, which is welded to a flat plate that is bolted to the spar web. The connecting sleeve has some slots to allow for passage of the air lines coming from the tube.142- Sleeve side 1
Hok Digital Paint Booth Crack
I was having a hard time keeping the walls of the paint booth secured to the frame. Tape kept coming off. I remember seeing a magazine blurb about making clamps out of PVC pipe for other purposes, so I figured I would try them here. I started with a scrap of pipe of the same diameter as the frame. I used the table saw to cut a kerf into the pipe lengthwise. Then I sliced off little slivers by making cuts across the pipe. Here is the end result:PVC Pipe clamps 2ff7e9595c
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