Day: June 26, 2011

Yup, I managed to get everything done that I wanted to. As it was so warm, I thought it’d be a good idea to press on with the pod repairs. First I nipped down to the local shops to see if I could buy a metal sanding disk to fit into the electric drill. I couldn’t without going a lot farther afield so I settled for a rubber disc version and a pack of assorted round abrasive papers. In fact, although I went through papers at a fair old rate, it did the job and it wasn’t long before I was able to start on a few of the little repairs with some of the fibreglass mat and epoxy resin that had been left over from when I did MYRO’s pod last time. There are still one or two to do but I’ll come back to those later.

Then I sorted out the forks. They needed a good rub down to get rid of most of the brush marks from yesterday and after I’d cleaned them, it was so warm that I was able to give them a coat of white primer followed soon after by the gloss. Not a good thing to do, but they’ll have plenty of time to harden off before I need to fit them and it doesn’t matter if a little bit of the gloss is lost by spraying it a bit too soon onto the primer coat.

The final job this afternoon was the cabin floor tubes. I rubbed those down too and was able to spot white prime them in before hanging them up in the garage to harden off. The reason is that I want to give them a rub down before spraying the gloss coat so I want the primer to have a chance to harden.

So that was it. A good day’s work well done and I can begin to see the job coming together now. With a bit of luck, in a couple of week-ends time, I should be able to start stripping the damaged items off MYRO. I don’t know what I’ll find, of course, until I get into it but if the weather plays ball, who knows, I might have MYRO back together by end July/early August. Now that would be nice – in time to get some Summer flying in 😉

And I’m going to miss it, of course. Here’s the weather for the rest of the day for Sheerness, which is just over the Medway estuary from Stoke.

It’s already a scorcher today, with very light winds. So a good day for flying but maybe not so good for working out in the open, which is what I’ll be doing! I seem to remember that this is a bit like what happened last year when I was finishing MYRO off ready for inspection and permitting at Linton. Beautiful, scorching Summer days (I got a bit of sunstroke I recall) which turned to grey skies, low cloud and wind through almost the whole of August. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen this time around 🙁

The forecasters say that we’ve only got a day or so of this before it turns back to what it was like before so best make the most of it. Must get cracking!