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Fuselage 20 – More Priming

That pile of parts waiting to be primed was larger than I thought! I had to do 3 more sessions today to finish priming all of them. I forgot to take pictures early on, but here are a few of the parts in progress. Not a whole lot else to say, as I followed the normal progress. You can see the new hose I bought of off Amazon in the first picture. It wasn’t very expensive, and its the highest quality of the three hoses I now have. 
  

These are the parts I finished earlier in the day, but forgot to take photos of. Its just boring old priming anyways.


Fuselage 19 – Priming multiple parts

I have a substantial pile of parts that are awaiting priming. The first three photos are all the parts I brought to the paint booth to paint. Both the forward and aft upper fuselage skins, and a large number of additional interior parts are in the queue.
  

I stapled some wire to the ceiling in a couple places to hold the larger skins for priming.

I wasn’t able to get to every part I had as my wife called just before I mixed the primer to tell me she had locked her keys in the car. Well 3 hours later I was back to finish what I started.   

There isn’t much else to say. Here are the results.
  


Fuselage 18 – Rudder pedals

While ago I began installation of the rudder pedals, but ran into a problem. That post can be found here: http://papalimabravo.com/construction/fuselage/fuselage-16

The problem was the rivets on the angles underneath the rudder pedal angles were not located in the same relative position as that show in the diagrams. If I followed the diagrams I would either be in gross violation of edge distance, or I’d be leaving out a rivet entirely. I decided to get new rudder pedal angles, and drill just one rivet for each end show here. These will get the BSPQ5-4 rivets in each.

This resulted in the angles being just slightly closer than the 15 1/4 inch, however, I was careful to move the rudder pedals along as I drilled ensuring the match drill process accounted for their movement and could accommodate them at any position comfortably. Problem solved!