It’s half-term weekend, so I’ve had Monday and Tuesday off school and four days to work on Fly, with Twig joining me for three of these. Already struggling to remember exactly what we got done on Saturday, but think we played a little with my table saw set-up before mounting the heater exhaust outlet fitting and spending most time on the fiddly task of templating and cutting the Treadmaster for the heads and forecabin. Then I took the chance to join Glencoe Hill Runners’ ‘Two Lairigs’ run on Sunday before returning to finish preparing the Treadmaster bonding surfaces before we stuck the stuff down yesterday (note the advanced holding-down technology!):
After Twig left yesterday, I built my jig for the final speaker enclosures, which you see first taking shape last night then demonstrating usage this morning with the better of the two practice pieces I made without it and my original cardboard template. Yes, it’s only a jig, but get this right (which I have!) and the otherwise tricky glue-up I struggled with on my practice versions becomes child’s play:
We also put much effort into the heater installation yesterday and today, but I’ve just a solitary photo to show because we left one part bonding (the air intake where it goes through the aft bulkhead) I couldn’t risk disturbing through getting too close or diving into the cockpit locker:
At some stage we got the starboard compass refitted to match the port one done last weekend (both showing dark here because the outside covers are on):
And we finished up today by making the first four replacement deckhead panels and PVA-coating them ready for lining carpet (still another five to make, with the smallest – for the heads – being a new addition rather than replacing an older one):
