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Thursday October 13, 2005 - the Restoration
Team hit the ground running.
A nose jack was placed under the nose jacking
point and the nose gear was put in the "down and locked" over-center
position. The NG actuator was also reinstalled and the nose tires and
bearings were removed so that they could accompany the main tire and
wheels to Green Bay, Wisconsin to be filled and made solid for easier
maintenance and towing.
Steve Farnsworth will be cleaning and repacking all the landing gear
bearings.
Further landing gear work is on hold until some new MLG strut pins are
produced along with one side attachment yoke.
After the nose was jacked up, both of the wooden cradle supports were
removed. Nice to see the jet on three solid jacks.
While Tommy Lew, Scott Ranta and Pam were repairing a hole in the forward
section of the left fuselage, the rest of the crew was cleaning up the
bottom of the wings and continuing to remove screws from panels that will
be weather sealed. Pam Kurtz is the girl working on the patch.
Today we also removed most of the remaining preservative from the fuel
cells in the wings. Most of it leaked out when the wings were shipped from
Tucson, Arizona.
Others joining the work crew today were Scott Mills, Lee Nellist, Terry
Pihlainen, Jimmy Heinz and of course "AWOL and lost in the mountains",
Lani Duquette.
The next work session will be on Monday the 17th. This day will be spent
removing and sealing upper fuselage and back bone panels.
It looks like there may be only four to five more work sessions for this
year. Work will resume next spring as soon as the hangar warms up. |
