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EAA 87 News
The next Chapter meeting will be held on Tuesday November
10th at Merrymeeting Airport
The General Memebership meeting will start at 7:30 P.M.
On the slate is the election of Chapter Officers for 2010 and the
finalizing of the Chapter Christmas
Party in December.
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THEY’RE DONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After what seemed like an eternity, the final 360 rivets holding the
main keel strip to the bottom of the last float was
completed on Saturday October 17th.
At 8:00 a.m. the shop was barely 40 degrees, but as the day progressed,
it ended making it to 43 by the time we finished around
two o’clock. I should add I ran out of
propane and couldn’t heat the space. It
wasn’t the official end of riveting though, as I still
had 3 access cover doubler rings to rivet in
place. I did these a few days later. Although
the hulls are done, there is still a lot of work
left. The pump out tubes need to be cut, fit and
installed. The spreader bars and their related
attachments fitted to the hulls and then they are ready to
be prepped for paint. After paint, it’s onto installing
the gear, hydraulic lines, wiring for the gear position
indicators, spreader bars, rigging gear to the aircraft,
rudder cables, retract cables, rubber bumpers.
ENOUGH already! I have to stop here before I get depressed again.
I guess I should change the header from “they’re
done” to “the riveting is done”.
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