Ahh…. After a shower I feel a whole lot better… It is good to be home after an exhausting day… We got a lot done but it was exhausting. Let me explain…

The first thing we worked on was preparing some parts for painting. This meant dimpling, deburing, removing plastic and that sort of thing. This did not take all that much time… Then we needed to place the parts into acid and then scrubbed all the parts. Then we ‘alodined’ the pieces, which is a process akin to dieing fabric, and changes the color of the metal. This process took until about 4:00PM

Then we took the parts to a friends house to use his spray painting booth. I think this took about three or four hours… A lot of work really.

What all this means though is that most of the parts are now painted. There are some parts that we need to get powder coated, but almost everything else is done…

Oh, and I also managed to cut my finger cut on a friends plane today on his firewall. I was pointing something out and accidentally hit the firewall and my finger started bleeding… A couple of bandaids fixed my finger thankfully… and it is not sore… My finger should be right in the next few days.