At the end of this day I had sweat and sand in places I don't want to mention.
For the sandblasting and priming, we took the fuselage frame over to my friend mickey's house. Mickey has a larger shop that is detatched from the house, so there were no fumes to irritate the wife. For the sand blasting part I rented a large commercial air compressor. It was able to stay up with the huge amount of air sand blasting demands.
Of course like usual, I had to pick the hottest, most humid day I can find
here in South Mississippi to sand blast and prime the fuselage. I did
it with the Bearhawk, so I figured no sense in breaking with tradition.
Here I am in the 98 degree, 90% humidity sandblasting the fuselage
and sweating my rear
off:
At the end of this day I had sweat and sand in places I don't want to mention.
Once it was done, we moved it inside and wiped it all
down.
Of course my building partner and father-in-law Lonnie who had been sitting
under the shade trees watching up until this point, is now jumping in to
lend a hand. ;-)
Finally, the 2-part Epoxy Primer(EP420) goes
on:
This was allowed to cure overnight and then the whole thing was top coated with grey 2-part Aerothane. We allowed this to cure for a week before transporting it back to my shop.
