With the fuselage back in the garage, we started the prep work for paint. We first removed the plastic wrap that was protecting the fuselage while it was in storage, put the fuselage on the rotisserie, removed the wheels, and then proceeded to remove the landing gear.
This last item actually wasn't a trivial task as we needed lift the fuselage up a bit higher, then rotate it about 45 degrees to feed the gear legs through the fabric pass-thru, but the paint booth ceiling wasn't quite high enough to allow for this. But we were able to take care of this by removing one 2x4 from the ceiling and bumping up the plastic a few inches. This, along with the flexibility of the sheet plastic ceiling allowed us to rotate the fuselage enough to get the gear off.
We did an initial clean-up of the fabric with isopropyl alcohol. We noticed a few areas where there is some glue build-up, so we will go back and clean those up with acetone before masking for paint.
Hours: 6
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| Tires & landing gear removed |
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| Wide-angle shot of the fuselage on the rotisserie |
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