Friday, July 3, 2015

Fuselage kit here (finally) / inventory started.

Well, it has been some time since being able to work on the plane. Part of that is due to family vacation and other projects around the house. But a big part of it is due to a delay in the delivery of the fuselage kit. Since we live close to the factory I have been picking up the kits myself. Due to a work schedule I wouldn't have been able to pick up the kit until July 3rd.  So I had asked my wife if she would be willing to go get it on Friday the 26th. She graciously said yes.  So on Friday the 26th she traveled to factory to get the kit. The kit was loaded and she was on her way back home. She stopped for gas in Aurora. Since this is Oregon she told the gas attendant to fill the truck with regular and she would pay inside. The truck was filled, gas paid and she was on her way back home.  A little north of Albany she pulled into the rest area for a few minutes. As she started the truck to leave, the truck wasn't running quite right and she said she had noticed it not running very well the past few miles. Thinking about it, she looked at her gas receipt and it said "Diesel".  The gas attendant had mistakenly put diesel in our truck that takes regular. Not good. She called a tow truck and they towed her to a friends auto shop to have the gas tank flushed.

That wasn't the end of the problem.  I went to pick up my wife and son at the auto repair shop and while we were backing out I hit a telephone pole.  I don't know how I did it since the car has a back up camera, but somehow I did. I think we were just so upset about the gas problem that we weren't paying much attention to the back up alarm. So now that needs repaired.

After attempting many many times to get the manager of the gas station to call us back so that we can have his insurance pay for the damages, he has yet to call us back.  The repair took longer then I expected as we were waiting to try and figure out the insurance information, but I finally told the repair shop to get my truck fixed and I would pay for it. My fuselage kit was still in the back of the truck.

With both repairs of the truck and car it ends up adding $2500 of unnecessary cost to my plane.  What chaos a simple act of the gas attendant filling the tank with the wrong fuel can make.

So yesterday after almost a week in the shop I was able to pick the truck up and bring my fuselage kit home.  I am glad to finally have it here and also have my truck back.

Today I spent a short time unpacking and inventorying the parts of the kit. I inventoried all the parts except the hardware. There are a lot of parts to inventory in this kit. I will do that another day.

Time: 1 hr.
Truck being towed

Dent in vehicle after picking up wife from repair shop

Fuselage kit finally home safely after a week in the back of the truck at the auto repair shop.

Fuslage kit packaging.




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