Can you believe this was once flyable?

Hard to believe that just last fall this thing was flying around.

Thanks to Pete and Amish the sandblasting is well under way.

-Andy

Let the Sandblasting begin

Andrew's ready, are you?

Saturday update

Team:

The tent is built but needs a little tweaking and the whole thing should be vented to the outside to keep the air clean.....

The sandblaster has been tested and I think we're ready to give it a go so please reply to me if you would like to work tomorrow after breakfast, say around noon and I'll show you how it's a one person job but maybe a second person could hang out and take a shift or at least learn how it's done.

Andy

Saturday plans

Team,

I plan to head over at around 10:30 or 11 tomorrow to build the tent and to see if I can put all the pieces together for sandblasting (SB). Andy G. is out of town for the weekend and I forgot to ask him if all the required items were in plain site so there is a chance that SB will not happen.

I would need one volunteer and will pick whomever lives closest to the field.

I will post the plans for Sunday at the end of the day on Saturday.

Andy

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Sandblasting and the tent

Team,

I purchased the sandblasting grit (coal) and a roll of plastic so the next job is to build a tent around the fuselage and may not have time to work on this till Saturday morning so if anyone else wants to take on this project before then please speak up.

Otherwise I will email again on Friday with a plan for Saturday which will be to build the tent and start blasting.

Andy

2-33 Project Staus

Saturday March 22nd 2008

Today we removed a 4x8 section from a wall in the hangar, wheeled the 2-33 over the snow, under a few wings, through the hole and into the hangar, done deal.

Amish and Gregg removed the interior panels, seat belts, floor boards etc. while I removed the old fabric.

Tom took the Canopy, window and door home to refurbish.

The fuselage is not thoroughly inspected yet but I don't expect any surprises but we may have to remove the fiberglass nose bowl in order to clean and paint that section of the fuselage.

Next step is to purchase a ~30' x 30' sheet of plastic and build a sandblasting tent, then we'll have a training session and a sign up sandblasting shifts (will be great fun!).

Andy