So the heat wave continues… I said to myself at around 3pm that I should grab a pic of thermometer in my shop.  It was at about 104° at that point, and dropped a few degrees when I finally got around to grabbing this shot at 5:30pm.

In addition, the capacitor on my outdoor house AC unit gave up the ghost, so I’m in the process of locating one to buy.  My indoor house temp “only” hit a “cool” 95° compared to the shop (thank God Jess’s AC is working!!).

Regardless of the heat, I need to get this bird done.  I aimed the floor fans towards the front of the plane and finished sanding the re-micro’d areas on the nose, sidewall, strake LE’s, etc.

I then epoxy wiped the sanding scratches and pinholes with a couple coats.  The two biggest issues in completing that task was first containing the simply profuse amount of sweat from dripping onto the surfaces that I was applying the West epoxy to.  Since I had the West pump already in the 205 fast hardener, I pressed forward… thus issue #2 was anything more than a half pump of epoxy resulted in getting VERY close to exotherms with the internal shop heat being so high… needless to say it was probably the quickest, sloppiest epoxy wiping session I’ve done on this bird.

But I got ‘er done… all with about a 20 minute gap between coats because it was curing so darn fast!

Earlier in the day I had tweaked my left and right CS spar “wing” templates in CAD, and mid-evening tonight I again plotted them out using my plasma cutting table.  The final fit on these were much better so I’m calling these templates good and will be pressing forward with using them to cut the Fiberfrax as well as cutting out the aluminum sheet overlays to cover the Fiberfrax on each side.

Yes, the forecast shows we’ve still got a lot of days upcoming that will be hot as hades, but the build must go on!