Short work night. Not because I’m busy, but because it didn’t take nearly as long as I thought to get to the point where I had to stop and wait for a new tool to arrive.
Last night, I assembled all the parts of the port h-stab skeleton and skin, and did all the match-drilling up to the point the instructions called for an angle drill, which I didn’t have. The drill was ordered from Spruce today, but work didn’t have to stop…I still had to repeat all these steps on the starboard stab. So that’s what I worked on tonight. It actually went really fast, and before long I was stuck yet again.
Luckily, I got the ship notification from Spruce just a bit ago, so I should have the drill tomorrow and be able to jump right back into things after work.
In the meantime…well, the instructions certainly don’t call for temporarily assembling the entire h-stab right now, but how I could I resist the opportunity to spend ten minutes adding a few clecos and ending up with something I could stare at while cackling madly? I figure there’s some value in detours like this that help remind you that yes, you are going to end up with airplane-type stuff eventually. Motivation, I tell you…
