I was going to work on the elevators tonight, but got a wild hair up my ass to prime the rudder skeleton components.

Tami came home from work and helped me Alumiprep the parts which saved me a ton of time.  While shopping last week, I got some dixie cups to mix the epoxy primer (Tami made me buy Winnie-The-Pooh) cups and a cat scratching tray which had corrugated cardboard in it that was treated with catnip.  I gave the cardboard to Arnold and kept the container for myself.  The long shaped container works really well and the alodining of these parts was a lot better than the vertical stabilizer parts. 

NOTE:  The dixie cups are wax coated.  I have not noticed any problems with that when mixing my primer, however, I would buy uncoated paper cups to ensure that their is no interaction between the primer/catalyst and the wax on the cups.

When I started priming this time, I set up the spray gun by spraying on cardboard first (duh) and then attempted to prime the parts.  The primed parts looked really good tonight.  It is the simple things when it comes to using the spray gun that I need to learn to make it look good.

I will get this priming thing done perfectly on the next plane.