Now that we've got the fuselage out of the garage, it is time to start construction of the paint booth so we can finish the covering job. A large load of lumber was bought from the local hardware store. Our paint booth will be roughly 10ft x 20ft. Due to the garage door there will be two heights to the paint booth. The taller section will accommodate the tail section and the lower section will accommodate the cockpit area of the fuselage.
We first constructed one wall to locate where we would need to place the steps in the ceiling. We had many trial and error moments to get the wall height near the garage door correct. We finally settled on all the dimensions. Ed precut the boards for the second wall. We assembled the second wall, which went together much quicker with the precut lumber.
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| Assembling the Second Wall |
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| Second wall complete and ready to lift into place |
Finally we raised the second wall into place. We had to be careful around the A/C intake/output hoses and condensation drain lines. Once the wall was in place, the 10ft rafters were installed one at a time. We ran into one issue that will have to solved. The garage door has a bracket in the middle that the garage door opener attaches to and as it travels it hits the installed rafters. It may be as simple as rotating the rafters 90 degrees. Hours: 12
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| Rafters being installed |
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| Paint Booth coming together |
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