A few mechanical issues with the houseboat failed to deter the intrepid voyagers who enjoyed a week replete with good food, good wine and good company.
There's never a dull moment here, no sooner were we back than on Friday night grandchild number seven shrugs off the bonds of confinement and slips into the light of day, well night actually. Jackson Brock Moen, son to Chris and Siobhan. Of course this demanded urgent grandparent attention in the form of a Saturday trip to Adelaide to visit the happy family. All is well as you can see, meet the star of the show.
Today the call of the ACF proved irresistible and I put in a full day commencing Section 10, the Tailcone construction.
Step 1 requires the preparation of the skins that will cover the tailcone. This involves the deburring of many hundreds of holes in several skins as well as deburring the edges of the skins and providing a slight 'break' (bend) on the edge of some skins so that they sit flat on top of the mating skin. I have a horrible feeling that I 'broke' some the wrong way, but am not stressing too much. I think I can rectify this if indeed it proves to be an issue. This took pretty much the whole day, was unimaginably monotonous, and thankfully is now complete. It was so monotonous that I can't bear to insert a photo, which is just as well because I don't have one. I'll start the next session thankful that is behind me. The thought of doing all those wing skins a way down the track does not bear thinking about....................
I finished up the day completing step 2 which requires preparing and putting a slight bend in this angle piece. The instructions say "Flute the F-1210C Angle at the places called out in Figure 2. Each flute needs to 'hump' in the same direction as the 5 hole flange." Goodness me! Fascinated? Here it is.
Next comes the preparation of the fuselage frames. These are they, anxious for further attention
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