In the last post, I talked about the painting of the room. However, since we hustled to get the room habitable, we skipped the closets. Before the Swedish grandparents arrived for their visit this year, we wanted to get that done. As you may guess by now, this entailed first stripping a bunch of lead …
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Wow, posting’s really dropped off this year. Hard to get the time to do stuff, even harder to then actually write something about it. When we ended the last post, I was going to show you the room painting project that we continued with after replacing the windows. The first, and most painful task, as …
So there’s been a 5-month hiatus on posting, but things have been happening. I’ll try to catch up. During November, the grandparents came for their usual month-long Hawaii visit, and the task my Dad and I decided to tackle this year was to replace the old counterweighted “sash” sliding windows in the two rooms in …
It’s been two years since the last time progress was made on the kitchen. We still didn’t have any cabinet doors, and recent developments have caused this to be a more pressing matter… We had focused on the lower cabinet doors the last time we made a push, and gotten to the point that they were …
After fixing the main wheels, there was also some things to attend to at the back. We’ve had a replacement for the ridiculously dinky tailwheel since before I became a co-owner but never mounted it. Since we were doing wheel work anyway, we decided now was the time. Replacing the tailwheel looked simple until we …
The “one thing” left to do on the Sonex was to fix the left wheel brake, which was stuck. Well, ok, the left tire also kept losing pressure. Finally co-owner Andy and I managed to get down there and jack the plane up so we could take the wheel off. We had wondered about how …
We’re at three months since the last post… We were in Sweden for almost two months, introducing Axel to the grandparents, and after coming back I’ve not had time to write. I have however made progress on an upgrade for the mini mill that I started planning at the beginning of the year: replacing the …
Now that the Aerovee seems to run OK, I won’t have time to work much more on it for a while. However, as part of trying to get some full-throttle time on it, I did complete a bunch of runs with different mixtures to see what the mixture distribution looks like now. These tests consist …
In the time since the engine was replaced on the plane, I’ve been able to get down to the airport every now and then and work on hooking everything up. The biggest thing to put together was the oil system. The lines to the oil filter and oil cooler had to be fabricated and I …
This isn’t really a project post, but some of you may be aware that Kilauea volcano here on the Big Island is having a bit of an eruption right now. Two weeks ago there was a magnitude 6.9 earthquake, the largest to hit the island since 1975. This was stronger than anything we ever felt …