{"id":2123,"date":"2008-02-24T11:03:49","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T17:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2015-02-08T09:36:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T15:36:02","slug":"00-shop-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/24\/00-shop-prep\/","title":{"rendered":"00 Shop Prep"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 2 of 28 in the series 00 - Prep\/Logistics<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

For the past two weeks I’ve been working on the annual of the Cessna and getting the shop ready so when the plane arrives I can start working on the plane.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the things that I need is a heated epoxy cabinet. The epoxies that will be used need to be stored at a relatively narrow temperature range. I knew this, but I thought that since the shop is heated, I wouldn’t have to worry about that. When I was in Florida, the shop I was working in kept their epoxy in a heated cabinet. And that was Florida! If the epoxy gets too cold it becomes thick and doesn’t flow very well.<\/span><\/p>\n

I had originally planned on building a cabinet, but while shopping for the heating parts at the local home improvement store, I ran across a simple cabinet for $49.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I lined the inside with 1\/2″ foil faced insulation.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Then I installed a thermostat and a single fixture for an incandescent light bulb. I was going to put in two fixtures, but I wasn’t sure if I needed two so I decided to put in one and add the second if required.<\/span><\/p>\n

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To maintain about 70 – 80 degrees, the 75 watt light bulb is on about 15% of the time.<\/span><\/p>\n

During construction, I’ll need to retract the landing gear from time to time so I’ll need some way to support the plane. The front will be easy since a sawhorse will fit under the nose perfectly. For the back (under the wings) I could use Airplane Jacks, but they’re rather expensive since they’re designed to work under different types of airplanes. While I was down at the factory, I saw a couple different types of fabricated jacks. So here’s what I did:<\/span><\/p>\n

I went to Harbor Freight (I’m really starting to like that store) and picked up a couple 6 ton hydraulic bottle jacks.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Once it’s complet<\/span>e<\/span>d, the airplane will only weight about 2,000 pounds so I don’t need that much capacity, but these jacks had a longer throw than the 2 ton jacks and they only cost $12 each!<\/span><\/p>\n

Then I had to make them work for the 37″ – 42″<\/span> span under the wing. So I used some leftover 1\/2″ plywood from when I built the shop and made a base.<\/span><\/p>\n

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With the jack on top, it’s the correct height to raise the wing. I haven’t decided how I’m going to secure the jack to the top of the stand. I’m thinking something along the lines of lag bolts with fender (wide) washers around the edge.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now I’m off the New York City for a week to teach an ACCS<\/a> class. Then I’m in Downtown Chicago for a week teaching an ICND1<\/a> class. After that, I’m hoping the airplane will arrive.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This entry is part 2 of 28 in the series 00 - Prep\/Logistics<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

For the past two weeks I’ve been working on the annual of the Cessna and getting the shop ready so when the plane arrives I can start working on the plane. One of the things that I need is a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"series":[41],"class_list":["post-2123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","series-00-preparation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2129,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions\/2129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}