{"id":1527,"date":"2009-02-21T11:17:04","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T16:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2012-10-25T11:20:26","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T15:20:26","slug":"paint-booth-in-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=1527","title":{"rendered":"Paint booth in Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got a lot of work done on the flaps this weekend. Friday was a day off for me, so I spent the afternoon prepping and alodining small flap and aileron parts &#8211; ribs, stiffeners, brackets and spacers.<\/p>\n<p>It was too cold to spray and scrub the larger flap and aileron parts outside, so early the next morning I hauled those parts over to the Hanscom Aero Club hangar and did all the cleaning, scrubbing and alumi prepping there &#8211; nobody minds a wet floor as long as you clean up after yourself. With that done, I packed up everything including primer, spray gun and miscellaneous supplies and headed up to Maine where my friend Antony Parchment, RV-7 builder and all-around great guy, allowed me to use his paint booth to get all those parts primed.<\/p>\n<p>Antony&#8217;s paint booth is wicked great &#8211; it&#8217;s collapsible and folds against one wall when he&#8217;s not using it. I helped him assemble it and got right to work priming. Here&#8217;s the booth&#8230;sorry for the crappy pictures, I did &#8217;em with my cell phone.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/antony_paint_booth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1528\" title=\"antony_paint_booth\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/antony_paint_booth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/antony_paint_booth.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/antony_paint_booth-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>And here&#8217;s the flap\/aileron priming in progress.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/flap_priming.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1529\" title=\"flap_priming\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/flap_priming.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/flap_priming.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/flap_priming-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Meanwhile, Antony worked on fitting steps to his RV-7 fuselage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/antony_step.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1530\" title=\"antony_step\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/antony_step.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/antony_step.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/antony_step-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>After a hard day&#8217;s work, we hunkered down on some great Japanese food in Portland with Antony&#8217;s wife and a neighborhood friend. I packed everything up and motored back to Boston. A hard 15-hour RV workday, but worth it. Mission accomplished!<a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/antony_thumbs_up.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1531\" title=\"antony_thumbs_up\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/antony_thumbs_up.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/antony_thumbs_up.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/antony_thumbs_up-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got a lot of work done on the flaps this weekend. Friday was a day off for me, so I spent the afternoon prepping and alodining small flap and aileron parts &#8211; ribs, stiffeners, brackets and spacers. 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